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SDL WorldServer engine

Great engine for providing both content reuse and terminology results.

In adding this engine you can obtain two types of results:

  • content reuse - suggestions to help the organization save money for translations by suggesting phrases that have already been translated and can be found in your previously translated content (translation memories)
  • terminology- suggestions designed to ensure consistent terminology throughout your documentation(accessing either a Term Database (TD) or a TD Group).

Keep in mind that terminology and translation is not managed directly within the Quality Assistant system. SDL WorldServer is a separate system that is managed, configured and operated separately from Quality Assistant . Instead, Quality Assistant connects to your SDL WorldServer to provide users with terminology suggestions or content reuse suggestions.

The documentation manager can consult with the SDL WorldServer administrator to decide on the best resources (for either type of result) to access to obtain the desired results.

You need to know the following information when adding this type of engine. You typically obtain this information from the SDL WorldServer administrator in your organization.

Information neededDetailsexample
SDL WorldServer server URIhttp://worldserver.example.com/ws/ (where worldserver refers to an example server dedicated to WorldServer)
User credentials with access to the WS serverbasic access so that the termbase or translation database can be read. Administrative access not necessary.User/ passw0rd
If you want content reuse suggestions: The name of the translation memory.For now, we only support access to a single TM, not yet connecting to TM Groups.JapaneseReuse
If you want terminology suggestions: the name of the terminology database (or group of databases) to access.This the name of the Term Database (or TD Group)TermsMarketingMultiple
If you want terminology suggestions: Field Name, Preferred Value, Forbidden ValueThe field name is which field to check, by default the value is status. With preferred value and forbidden value allows you to specify enough information so that your preferred term will be suggested.status, active, deprecated.
For terminology

Special case- if you do not specify status as your field name, then for use with Quality Assistant, you should ask your SDL WorldServer administrator for the Term Database attribute to use as the Field Name.