# Fieldworks Lite

> FieldWorks Lite is a slimmed down companion lexical application for FieldWorks dictionary projects that's aimed at being fast and easy to use.

- **Slug:** `fieldworks-lite`
- **Organization:** SIL
- **Website:** https://lexbox.org/fw-lite
- **HTML page:** https://www.tools.bible/tools/fieldworks-lite
- **Markdown page:** https://www.tools.bible/tools/fieldworks-lite.md

## Classification

- **Translation stages:** Language Development
- **Medium:** Written
- **Pricing:** Free (Unrestricted)
- **Release status:** Beta
- **Integrations:** FieldWorks
- **Localization:** English
- **Translation type:** Any
- **License:** Common Development and Distribution License
- Developer expertise needed
- Linguistic expertise needed
- Offline capable

## Description

FieldWorks Lite is designed to be:

- Cross-platform: currently Windows, Android and Linux (Alpha) with iOS and Mac in progress
- Usable offline: no internet connection required
- Collaborative: watch live changes from other users
- History-aware: enabling you to view the complete history of every entry in your project

FieldWorks Lite is still in an early stage of development and only has a basic set of features. While we have a lot of ideas, we'd be very interested to hear what features you would find useful. When you launch the app there's a Feedback button in the top right; we'd love to hear your thoughts.

## Additional details

### About

- **Make sure your data is backed up first if it's important**. If you use [Lexbox](https://lexbox.org/login) S/R, then your data is already backed up and you're good.
- The landing page should have a list of all your FW projects (right now it's hard coded to list each folder in 'C:ProgramDataSILFieldWorksProjects'), click the open button with the FW icon and it will open the editor on the page.
- When working with this editor all changes are saved automatically once you finish editing a field (once the text field loses focus)
- All entries created will have the Morph type of stem
- The FW project will be locked while using this tool, meaning you can't open the project in FieldWorks while you have it open in FW Lite. There is a button to open an entry in FW, this will close the project in FW Lite, and launch FW using the link to entry feature in FW.
- To get a new project or S/R changes to a project, open FieldWorks and do it there.
- FW Lite supports editing Entry, Sense, and Example Sentences. Some things like Part of Speech and Semantic domains are supported on Sense. If you want to change the name of a part of speech or add a new one that must be done from within FieldWorks.
- There are buttons to reorder senses and example sentences, however those changes don't get saved right now.
- Sorting of entries is by headword, we may consider adding other sort options in the future
- The little book button to the left of the filter bar shows a list of exemplar characters and will let you filter by those.

## Screenshots

![Fieldworks Lite screenshot](https://www.tools.bible/api/media/file/fwlite.png)

## Related tools

- [Dictionary App Builder](https://www.tools.bible/tools/dictionary-app-builder.md)
- [RhemaApp](https://www.tools.bible/tools/rhemaapp.md)
- [Speech Analyzer](https://www.tools.bible/tools/speech-analyzer.md)
- [Lilt](https://www.tools.bible/tools/lilt.md)
- [Phonology Assistant](https://www.tools.bible/tools/phonology-assistant.md)

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