Projects with two BTs has Plan Progress Problems

Question

(System: Win7x64 SP1, PT8 v56)

Several projects here use two BTs. The primary BT is the local majority language, and the secondary BT is English. If a Consultant is not available who knows the majority language for a given consultant session, the team will do the BT in English for the Chapters/Verses for that session.

The Missing Verses & Out Of Date Verses are flagged as issues for the BT which was not used for a set of Chapters/Verses. They could be postponed, but it appears you can only postpone issues for a single stage.

The following 2 options seems workable, but they turn off an important check for both BTs.

Option 1:
Turn on Missing Verses & Turn off Out Of Date Verses
“Deny” the Missing Verses issues for the chapters/verses unused in each BT. (Select, Ctrl-D)
BUT You will not be flagged for out of date verses for either BT

Option 2:
Turn off Missing Verses & Turn off Out Of Date Verses
BUT You will not be flagged for any BT verse errors for either BT.

Currently they are planning to use Option 2, because Option 1 is a lot of work.

Answer 1

Assuming I’m understanding correctly that these BTs are going to be incomplete by-design, I’m surprised that you haven’t had to overlap the BTs for the consultants (i.e. I would expect a consultant would want to compare text in other parts of the project). I would think both BTs would need to be complete, then.

But, if the consultants are able to work that way, I would suggest that you have one BT and have both languages in it, if possible, since there isn’t a good way to handle incomplete BTs in Paratext (as you’ve found).

Answer 2

I"ll check with the team, Thanks

Answer 3

Have you tried setting different scopes for the two different Back translation projects? On the Books tab in Project properties and Settings, one sets the books that a project is going to have. Back translation projects inherit the scope of the mother translation by default, but the scope can still be changed. It would be a worthwhile experiement to set the books tab for each Btrans project appropriately and see if you stop getting “false positives” from the Btrans project not in use for a particular book.