WordFinder Unlimited with SAML Federation

Use WordFinder Online

As a user with a federated account using SAML, you will access WordFinder Online with the username and password and link provided by your organisation. The link will look like this: app.wordfinder.com/federationlogin?idp=YourOrganisation.

Select Dictionaries

When you access WordFinder Online for the first time no dictionaries are selected. You select the dictionaries you want to work with by clicking the Settings-menu (the cog-wheel) and then Dictionaries.

Work with Dictionaries

For more information about the search functionality in WordFinder Online, please see our video about WordFinder Online and our Quick Guide.

Other Applications

In addition to WordFinder Online, we provide the following applications:

• WordFinder for Windows
• WordFinder for Mac
• WordFinder for iOS
• WordFinder for Android
• WordFinder for Chrome Extension

To use these applications you will need a WordFinder ID, which is made up of your email address and a password of your choice. You will use this WordFinder ID when you set up these applications for the first time.

How to create a WordFinder ID?

In WordFinder Online, click the Settings-menu (the cog-wheel), select My account and enter a password to be used in conjunction with your email address (your email address is automatically provided):

Use WordFinder for Windows (Recommended)

You can use WordFinder for Windows with your WordFinder ID.

Sign in by entering your e-mail and password in the WordFinder for Windows sign in dialog, which will pop-up the first time you start WordFinder for Windows, please see the screen-shot below.

If you have selected the dictionaries you want to work with in WordFinder Online they are available as soon as you sign in to WordFinder for Windows. You can also select the dictionaries you want to work with under Settings > Dictionaries in the app.

NOTE: to access the Dictionaries page you must have signed in to WordFinder Online at least once as described above.

Get WordFinder for Windows

Introduction

This section is split in two parts, one covers the case where you are allowed to install software yourself and the other covers the case where your IT-department does the installation of software.

If you can install software yourself

To download and install a new version of WordFinder for Windows, please follow the steps below. If you need assistance, drop us a support request in the form to the right.

1. Sign in to WordFinder Online (see the section above) and go to Downloads.
2. Download and run the WordFinder for Windows Installer.
3. Sign in to WordFinder for Windows.
4. Go to Dictionaries under the Settings menu and select the dictionaries you want to work with.
5. Done!

If your IT department installs software for you

Your IT department can read more about deployment here. After your IT department has installed the software for you, follow the steps below:

1. Double click the WordFinder for Windows icon on your Desktop or in the Start-menu:
   
2. WordFinder for Windows will start, asking you to sign in.
3. Sign in.
4. Go to Dictionaries under the Settings menu and select the dictionaries you want to work with.
5. Done

Use WordFinder Pro for Windows (Classic version)

If your installation requires an upgrade or you do not have WordFinder Pro for Windows  (Classic version) installed, please see the section “Get WordFinder Pro for Windows” below.

Sign in with your WordFinder ID in the WordFinder Application Manager sign in dialog, which will pop-up the first time you start WordFinder Pro for Windows, please see the screen-shot below.

Sync Your Dictionaries Manually

WordFinder Pro for Windows is kept in sync hourly. If you want to get access right away to dictionaries you’ve selected, click the WordFinder Application Manager icon and click “Sync Now”, please see the screen-shot below:

 

Get WordFinder Pro for Windows (Classic version)

Introduction

This section is split in two parts, one covers the case where you are allowed to install software yourself and the other covers the case where your IT-department does the installation of software.

If you can install software yourself

Before downloading and installing WordFinder Pro (Classic version), please login to WordFinder Online (see the section above) and select the dictionaries you want.

You need to download and install a new version of WordFinder Pro, please follow the steps below. If you need assistance, drop us a support request in the form to the right.

1. IMPORTANT: As always before you do any changes to the WordFinder installation, please make a backup of any dictionaries you’ve bought from us and any dictionaries you have created yourself. Always keep such dictionaries in a separate folder from the dictionaries you subscribe on, e.g. in a sub-folder to your Documents folder.
2. IMPORTANT II: If you have a current WordFinder Pro installation, please verify that there is NO login information entered in the setting (Tools/Verktyg -> Dictionary Management/Lexikonhantering -> Online dictionaries/Online lexikon -> Settings/Inställningar). If there is please REMOVE IT.
3. Restart your computer to make sure no old WordFinder applications or tools are started.
4. Download and run the WordFinder Installer for Windows (Classic version).
5. Login in WordFinder Application Manager. All dictionaries you selected will be downloaded.
6. Done!

If your IT department installs software for you

Before launching WordFinder Pro, please login to WordFinder Online (see the section above) and select the dictionaries you want.

Your IT department can read more about deployment here. After your IT department has installed the software for you, follow the steps below:

1. Double click the WordFinder Pro icon on your Desktop or in the Start-menu.
2. WordFinder Pro will start, stating that no license file is present and ask you to login.
3. Login in WordFinder Application Manager. All dictionaries you have selected will be downloaded.
4. Done!

Get WordFinder Pro for Mac

Before downloading and installing WordFinder Pro, login to WordFinder Online, please see the section above and select the dictionaries you want.

1. IMPORTANT: As always before you do any changes to the WordFinder installation, please make a backup of any dictionaries you’ve bought from us and any dictionaries you have created yourself.
2. Restart your computer to make sure that all WordFinder applications or tools have been shut down.
3. Download and run the WordFinder Installer for Mac.
4. If you are upgrading an old installation, please open the Preferences dialogue and verify your username and password and click “Check now”. If you are doing a new installation the preferences dialogue will be presented and ask for your username and password.
5. The dictionaries you’ve selected will be downloaded.

Get WordFinder for iOS

Read more about our iOS app and download it from the Apple App Store

Get WordFinder for Android

Read more about our Android app and download it from Google Play

Get WordFinder Chrome Extension

Read more about our Chrome Extension  and download it from Chrome Web Store.