Review workflow with FieldWorks Lite (Beta): comment-only vs limited edit on a 2000-entry subset

[Bart Eenkhoorn]

Greetings to you all.

We’re preparing a dictionary review with a small linguistic committee and would like to use FieldWorks Lite (Beta) for reviewers on smartphones (mainly Android).

Our review scenario

• Reviewers are motivated teachers with smartphones; orthography mastery varies.
• We want to review a cleaned subset of ~2000 entries (not the whole lexicon).
• We’d like two roles:
1. Comment-only / suggestion mode (no direct edits), and
2. Limited edit (only specific fields, e.g., headword spelling, glosses, examples), with strong safeguards.

What we’re trying to achieve

• Keep the workflow simple for non-technical reviewers.
• Prevent accidental structural changes.
• Keep feedback traceable (who suggested/changed what).
• Have a practical review / approval step before changes become “final”.

Questions

1. In real projects, how are people using FieldWorks Lite for review—especially when you need comment-only reviewers?
2. What’s a good workflow for reviewing a fixed subset (~2000 entries)?
• How do you select and freeze the set for review?
• How do you keep reviewers focused on that set?
3. For “limited edit” reviewers: which fields are safest to allow in Fieldworks Lite, and which should be reserved for full FieldWorks (FLEx)
4. Best practices for quality control and rollback:
• backups / Send-Receive approach,
• how you use history to audit changes,
• and how you handle accidental edits given Lite’s auto-save behavior.

Any recommendations, or proven workflows would be very helpful.
Thanks in advance for your help.

Bart.

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[chris...@sil.org]

Thanks Bart - it's good to get additional feedback / insight from this group, and this question/topic was also posted over at https://community.software.sil.org/t/review-workflow-with-fieldworks-lite-beta-comment-only-vs-limited-edit-on-a-2000-entry-subset/11146 and comments are happening over there as well.  I think it's fine to comment in either place - I just want to connect the two so that people are aware.