Changing Auxiliary to Daughter

Question

A project I'm associated with has been doing some side work (a parallel "literal" translation) using an Auxiliary project. They now want to do a back translation, but you aren't allowed to base BT's on Aux projects.

I can change the literal Aux project into a Daughter project, and then do a BT of it.

My question is: Is there any danger or loss of functionality when I change from Aux --> Daughter?

Answer 1

There is no loss of functionallity. You will need to register the project.

Comments

Does this also mean that all 19 people who have access to the project need to delete it and do a fresh S/R?

Let's just pretend that I didn't know that and changed it to a Daughter project, then did some work while the rest of the team did their own work on their now-disconnected copies of the project. Am I going to need to revert to their version and then re-implement all my changes manually? If I simply delete the Daughter version from my computer and from the server, will I automatically be able to re-download the Auxiliary version?

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mnjames - I would verify with another team member to see what they are seeing. If they can still S/R the project and on their computers it shows up as a daughter project then you should be good to go. This is not a change that I've done often.

Since this is a process that you want to do (make it a registered project that can be interlinearized) then they would need to delete the existing auxillary project from their computers and then do a S/R to get the new daughter version.