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What is the status of the linkage between Paratext and FieldWorks? Are there any issues users should be aware of?

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james_post

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When setting up the association, the writing systems have to be exactly the same. This is my example Paratex project.
It’s getting an Association error

I know from experience (well, and I caused the error on purpose) that the problem is a mismatch in the specificity of the writing system.
The language settings in the Paratext registry are

The vernacular writing system in FLEx 9 is
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If I really need to keep script and region in Paratext, then I need to change Special: in the FLEx Vernacular Writing system to Script/Region/Variant and set it accordingly.
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In example, I opted to make FLEx match Paratext. Once I did that…and then closed both apps, and opened Paratext, the association issue goes away

You do also need to be on compatible versions of FLEx and Paratext. You need to be using FLEx 9.0 and the latest version of Paratext.

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I’m also interested in this question. I couple years ago, it linked, but I was unable to edit both at the same time. For me that was a deal-breaker because we were (and still are) constantly deciding on spelling as we work on the translation. It would be interesting to find out if I could run both programs simultaneously now while they’re connected.

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I wrote up some of my experiences with Flex/PT integration here. My understanding is that the team is working on improving this whole area; I think @anon835088 should be able to give a status update.

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