You need to configure the Publications, Folders, Structure Groups, or Categories that contain content that requires translating.
Before you begin
To configure target content:
- You must have Translation Configuration rights for the Publication
- You must have configured items—Publications, Folders, Structure Groups, or Categories—that contain source content in a Parent Publication in the BluePrint hierarchy.
Note: In SDL TMS, if you add a Language Pair to an existing configuration, you will have to wait one hour for the configuration cache to clear before you can configure a Target Publication using this new language.
Procedure
- Open the Content Manager Explorer.
- Select the Publication, Folder, Structure Group, or Category which contains content that requires translating and choose Properties from the context menu.
- Select the Translation tab.
- Set Item is configured for translation to Yes.
- In the Item is configured for translation section:
- Select the Target for translation radio button.
- Optional: In the Send notification e-mail to field, enter a comma-separated list of e-mail addresses of people who need to be notified when items are sent for translation.
Note: Sending e-mails requires configuration. The <SmtpServer> element in the TranslationManager.xml file specifies the location and connection details of the SMTP server which is used to send e-mail notifications.
- In the Translation source configuration section, select the Language from the drop-down list:
- If you are using SDL TMS, the languages displayed are derived from the Configuration ID (GUID) of the source content.
- If you are using SDL WorldServer, the languages displayed are derived from the locales configured on SDL WorldServer.
The
Source language configuration displays the following properties:
- Use—deselect if you do not want to use configured source content for translations (source content can be configured at many levels of the BluePrint hierarchy).
- Language—the source language.
- Item—the Publication, Folder, Structure Group or Category that contains source content.
- Default Workflow or Default Project Type depending on whether you are sending translations to respectively SDL TMS or SDL WorldServer.
- Authorization required:
- For SDL TMS, if authorization is required Translation Jobs will stop at the Authorization workflow stage on SDL TMS.
- For SDL WorldServer, the setting is not used.
- Click Save and Close.
Results
The items you configured contain content that requires translating.