Technical Documents

The following documents were written for technical support staff to use when troubleshooting and helping end-users to use FieldWorks. These documents are not aimed at an average user, and for the most part contain information that users will never need to know to use the program. We hope you find them useful.

The following FieldWorks 7-8 documents are all pdf files.

FieldWorks 7 Localization (13 Aug 2011)
FieldWorks 7 Writing Systems (26 June 2013)
FieldWorks 7 XML model (16 July 2015)
Technical Notes on FieldWorks Send/Receive (15 Feb 2024)
Technical Notes on Interlinear Import (22 Mar 2017)
Interlinear text in Flex (3 Aug 2022)
FieldWorks Sorting- With ICU Rules (3 June 2021)
Publishing FLEx Dictionaries Using Microsoft Word via Pathway (9 Jan 2024)
Technical Notes on FLEx Dictionary Printing and Export (9 Jan 2024)
Tables in FLEx (14 Sept 2022)
Technical Notes on LIFT used in FLEx (15 Aug 2023)
Introduction to Lexicography (11 Oct 2016)
Introduction to Parsing (12 Apr 2018)

The following files provide information on the FieldWorks Model. FieldWorks model diagrams is a chm file current to FieldWorks 7.2.

Model 7000072 classes and fields
FieldWorks model diagrams

*If using Windows 10/11, right-click the downloaded file, choose Properties and check the unblock box.

The following FieldWorks 6 documents are all pdf documents.

Bulk edit issues (20 Oct 2008)
Collaboration and networking (16 Apr 2010)
Conceptual model overview (22 Nov 2008)
Databases and backups (17 Aug 2010)
Export options in Flex (12 Jan 2010)
FieldWorks database model (10 Dec 2008)
FieldWorks Localization (28 Oct 2008)
FieldWorks XML model (20 Oct 2008)
FLEx tips (19 Apr 2016)
FXT export options (18 May 2009)
ICU and writing systems (31 Oct 2019)
Installation issues (16 Feb 2010)
Keyboard input (29 Oct 2012)
Model name changes spreadsheet (1 Dec 2008)
Parser and interlinear text (3 Nov 2007)
Python database access (27 Aug 2009)
Rendering issues (30 Oct 2008)
Settings files and registry (28 Jan 2009)
SIL Encoding Converters (1 Apr 2011)
Tech Support Workshop – Customizing XML Files (16 Nov 2006)
Tech Support Workshop – TE Import and Export (15 Nov 2006)
Technical Notes on LinguaLinks Database Import (8 Feb 2013)
Technical Notes on SFM Database Import (11 May 2010)
Translation Editor Import & Export Slides (15 Nov 2006)
UniBook (22 Nov 2008)
Unicode introduction (20 Oct 2008)
Unicode introduction Slides (27 Sep 2006)
Who should use TE & Known FW Issues Slides (14 Nov 2006)
XML configuration files (27 Oct 2008)
ZEdit (20 Oct 2008)

Dissertations, Theses, and other Papers