Adding translation memories

You can use the default WorldServer translation memory for all your assets or you can create multiple translation memories to meet different needs. For example, if you are globalizing your corporate website, your intranet site, and your software, you can create a different translation memory for each globalization effort.

Procedure

  1. In WorldServer, go to Management > Linguistic Tool Setup > Translation Memory Setup.
  2. Select Add.
  3. In the Translation Memory: New dialog box, do the following:
    1. On the General tab, in the Name and Description boxes, enter an appropriate name and description for your new translation memory.
    2. Select the Allow Reverse Leverage check box if you want to leverage content both from source to target and from target to source.
      Reverse leveraging switches the source and target designations of segments within a TM entry, which means that you can also leverage content from the target language into the source language. In other words, if you have a TM with English as the source language and Spanish as the target language, you can use reverse leveraging to leverage content from the same TM when translating from Spanish into English.
    3. Next to Attribute Mask, choose whether you want users to see all the available attributes for the translation memory (Unrestricted) or only a certain number of attributes that might be relevant to the translation memory (Restricted).
      The Restricted option is particularly useful on environments with many translation memories and many attributes to make sure that users do not see the attributes that are not relevant to them. If you select Restricted, you have to move the appropriate attributes from the Available Attributes list to the Visible Attributes list so that users can see them.
    4. On the Access Control tab, next to Access Mode, configure who can see and use your translation memory:
    OptionDescription
    UnrestrictedEvery user whose user type allows access to translation memories.
    RestrictedEvery user, workgroup, workflow role, locale, or client to which you grant access.
    For example, you can grant read-only access to this translation memory to Susan Jacobs and to the Interns workgroup and allow only the users with the Translators workflow role to update it as well. To do so, select Restricted next to Access Mode, and then do the following:
    • Next to Users, select Pick users, and then move Susan Jacobs from the Available Users list to the Read Only Permissions list.
    • Under Groups, next to Workgroups, select Pick workgroups, and then move Interns from the Available Workgroups list to the Read Only Permissions list.
    • Next to Workflow Roles, select Pick workflow roles, and then move Translators from the Available Workflow Roles list to the Read and Write Permissions list.
  4. Select Save.