Configure and manage settings in Typefi Orion Compass

Typefi Orion Compass is a self-service admin portal. Settings can be managed or configured by a user assigned the Manage Configuration privilege for Orion. This is typically a Typefi administrator or customer administrator for cloud deployments, or an on-premises local administrator for Typefi Workgroup or Desktop installations.

Sign in to Typefi Orion Compass

  1. Sign in to https://orion.typefi.net with admin credentials.
  2. Once signed in, select the app switcher (9-dot menu) in the top-right corner, then select Typefi Orion.

    Typefi Server app switcher to switch to Orion Compass after Typefi Server sign in

Existing Configurations

You can manage your organisation's existing configurations by clicking the Edit button. To add a configuration, click the New Configuration button. A Configuration Options page will open.

Typefi Orion Compass existing configurations view

Configuration options

The Configuration Options page allows you to choose the type of settings you want to configure.

  • Global Settings: Configure settings that apply to all publications.
  • Publication Settings: Configure settings specific to individual publications.
Configuration Options view

Global settings

Typefi Orion Compass Global settings view

You can manage and configure the following global settings that will apply to all publications:

  • Article Type
  • Document Metadata
  • Style Configuration
  • Cleanup
  • SmartReplace
  • Advanced Workflows
  • Citations
  • SmartReferences
  • Export to XML

Article Type

Lists of imported article types. These article types are not editable.

Document Metadata

Customise the document metadata labels and values that appear in the Metadata dialog in Typefi Orion for Microsoft Word.

Image of the document metadata UI to manage settings

Click and drag the three-line icon (located to the left of the label name) to reorder the field or field groups.

Click + Add to open an Add Document Metadata Field dialog. You can select to add a single field or create a field group. Enter the desired field names, labels, and values, and select the type.

Image of the Add document metadata field

Style Configuration

Click Style Configuration to manage how your paragraph styles appear in the Paragraph Styles palette in Orion for Word (Word → Orion ribbon → Document → Styles).

Typefi Orion Compass Style Configurations view

All styles configured in Typefi Orion Compass will be applied to your document when you attach your publication in Typefi Orion for Word.

Style Configuration options

  • All Styles: Manage all available paragraph styles. Click All styles to view a list of default JATS styles. Note: Styles cannot be added in this view; to add styles, you must first edit the Style template.
  • Style Sets: Group related paragraph styles into reusable sets that are handled by different Orion processes.
  • Style Groups: Organize the paragraph styles into groups of styles. Each group of styles will display as tabs when you open the Orion Paragraph Styles palette in Orion for Word (Word → Orion ribbon → Document → Styles).
    Image of the style tabs in the paragraph style palette
  • Style Template: Define a template (.dotx) to apply styles in Orion for Word.

Cleanup

Manage which settings appear by default in the Cleanup dialog of the Typefi Orion for Word ribbon (Word → Orion ribbon → Document → Cleanup).

Image of cleanup settings in Orion Compass

SmartReplace

Manage your SmartReplace rules by adding your Typefi workflows that convert your AutoRedact dictionaries to SmartReplace rules.

Typefi Orion Compass global configuration for SmartReplace

To add a workflow

  1. Click the Add Workflow button. This will open a Choose Workflow dialog.
  2. Browse the files in Typefi Filestore and select a workflow.
  3. Click Select to add the desired workflow.
  4. Click Save.

The workflow(s) will now appear in the SmartReplace dropdown in the Typefi Orion for Word ribbon.

Advanced Workflows

Manage advanced workflows that help you edit, validate, and post-process your documents.

Image of a list of advanced workflows in Orion Compass Advanced Workflows section

Available workflows

NOTE

Additional advanced workflows are planned for future releases.

  • Author-Date Reference Sorting
  • Citation Matching
  • Citation Order Checkup
  • Citation Conversion and Cleanup
  • Bibliographic Citation Renumbering
  • Export Preflight

To add a workflow

  1. Click the Add Workflow button. This will open a Choose Workflow dialog.
  2. Browse the files in Typefi Filestore and select a workflow.
  3. Click Select to add the desired workflow.
  4. Click Save.

Citations

You can select and manage your citation format preferences. It automatically applies your selections to both in-text citations and the full bibliography.

Image of citation settings in Orion Compass
Citation fields and descriptions
FieldDescription
Target citation styleSelect a citation style from the dropdown.
Citation separatorEnter your preferred citation separator, for example (,)
Citation range dashEnter your preferred citation range dash, for example a hyphen (-) or an en dash (–)
Citation orderSnaking citation order through main text and called-out objects: The order should go through the text and when you hit a citation, for example Table 1, you go to the actual table itself and references in the table will be numbered next. Then, continue ordering through the main text.
Space before the citationsChoose how you want to handle spaces that come before citations. Select an option from the dropdown.
Options:
  • Yes: Adds spaces before citations
  • No: Removes spaces before citations
  • Leave as is: No changes to spaces before citations
Allow baseline prefixed citations in superscript stylesEnables the standard superscript format for citations attached to content, (for example: results observed6-8), but overrides this for numbers that are part of an explicit textual phrase (for example, in See Reference 4).
Example format: results are clear5 (See Reference 4).

This option is selected by default.
Report author name casing mismatchesAdds a comment in the document to flag when an author's name does not match the database record.

This option is selected by default.
Support unnumbered single objectsEnables support for unnumbered citation references (for example, See Figure).

This option is deselected by default.
Author-date reference sort orderSelect an option for Author-date reference sort order.
Options:
  • Authorship
  • Citation
Make citations of selected objectsSelect the objects to be included in citations.
Options:
  • References
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Appendixes
  • Boxes
  • Equations
  • Sections
References, Figures, Tables, and Boxes are selected by default.

SmartReferences

Select your preferred Edifix style from the dropdown. Then, click Save. Edifix will then automatically correct, link, and format your references, using Crossref and PubMed to ensure accuracy, linking, and adherence to the chosen style.

Image of the Edifix style dropdown to select an editorial style

NOTE

  • The reference style is fixed to Vancouver/ICMJE
  • The ability to customise your data sources by selecting/deselecting CrossRef and Pubmed will be available in a future release.

Export to XML

Click Export to XML to manage how your document is exported in Typefi Orion for Microsoft Word (Word → Orion ribbon → Output → Export to XML).

Image of the Export to XML settings in Orion Compass: Style mapping, Metadata mapping, and Configuration workflows

All styles configured in Typefi Orion Compass will be applied to your document when you attach your publication in Typefi Orion for Word.

Export to XML configuration options:

  • Style mapping: Map custom styles to existing All Styles (Global settings → Style Configuration → All Styles)
  • Metadata mapping: Map custom Document metadata fields to Existing Document metadata fields (Global settings → Document Metadata).
  • Configure workflows: Add workflows to be applied during XML export in Typefi Orion for Microsoft Word (Word → Orion ribbon → Output → Export to XML).

Publication settings

Typefi Orion Compass Publication settings

In Publication Settings, you can configure settings specific to your organisation's individual publications.

Publications

  • Click + New Publication to add one or more publications to appear in the Publication dialog in Typefi Orion for Microsoft Word
  • Click Edit (to the right of the publication's name) to customise the settings for that specific publication.

You can edit the following for each publication:

  • Publication Metadata
    • Publisher*
    • Publication name*
    • Journal ID*
    • Journal abbreviation*
    • Print ISSN
    • Electronic ISSN (*Required fields)
  • Document Metadata
    • Customise the Document Metadata for a specific publication.
  • Style Configuration
    • Customise the paragraph style configuration for a specific publication.
Last updated: 17 Dec 2025, 06:12:49
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