About creating projects
Projects are created using the New Project wizard. You can choose to create a project based on a template or based on a previous project. When you have specified project settings and selected the project files, the wizard automatically creates a project and adds it to SDL Trados Studio where it is managed. Files are scanned during project creation to determine their usage and to designate the appropriate filter settings file.
- Publish a project to Project Server (SDL Studio GroupShare).
- Produce translation analysis figures for viewing on screen in Studio and in Studio reports.
- Convert project files to
*.sdlxliffformat. - Pre-translate project files by applying translations from translation memories.
- Create a file-based project translation memory for distribution with project files.
If you do not select a task to be performed during project creation you can perform that task after the project is created. For example, you may initially only want to analyze files when you create a project in order to get analysis figures to provide a quote for a customer.
Project settings
If you choose to use the Default project template, it contains settings that are specified in the Options dialog box. For example, there are settings that control the:
- Source and target language
- Translation memories applied to a file
- Translation memory options
- Termbases applied to a file
- AutoSuggest dictionaries used
- Batch processing settings
- File Type settings
You can change these settings when you are creating a new translation project or leave the defaults. The settings you specify when creating a project can also be modified, after you have created your new translation project, in the Project Settings dialog box.