If you want to see a preview of a task while working on it, right-click its corresponding asset and select
View. You can then choose one of the available viewing modes.
You can view source or target assets in the following modes:
- Preview: When you select
Preview,
WorldServer passes the document to the browser for display. For example, an
.html document is displayed as a user would see it in its final form, a
.pdf document is displayed through the browser in a program such as Adobe Reader, and
.xml code is run through a code beautifier1.
- Data: Displays the source code of an asset, if it is textual.
- Context: Displays the asset in context with surrounding assets. For context mode to work, set the
Context URL property in
- Data Diff: Displays an asset's current and previous versions, highlighting changes that occurred between the two versions, in their source form. This feature works when the asset contains text (not binary) and supports versioning.
- Information: Displays information about the asset. This can include details such as the path, the locale, the context URL, the translation memory and term database, the file type configuration, AIS masks, or any custom properties defined for that asset.
1 Microsoft Office files open as plug-ins in Internet Explorer. Normally, the plug-in displays a standard toolbar, and this toolbar has a print button. If the
Standard toolbar is not displayed, you can right-click on any existing toolbar and make the
Standard toolbar available. If no toolbars are displayed, you can switch between document layouts. When you switch between toolbars, Microsoft Word makes certain toolbars available and you can get the rest by right-clicking the existing toolbars until you find an appropriate one.