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Making various configurations in other .properties files

While you are configuring WorldServer, you are likely to modify the following files, in addition to the ones already presented. After modifying these files, you should back them up, so you can restore them later if you need to. This does not apply if you are using the Delta configuration, because your files are stored in the folder specified in the WS_CONFIG system variable.

  • ui.properties – This is where you can configure UI-related features.
    • You can activate the slide-out navigation pane and make it available throughout all the WorldServer UI screens. To do so, set ws.enforce.navigation.panel=true and hide the old menu of the legacy UI by setting navigation.panel.url=<new-UI-link> in general.properties.
    • The location of the legacy UI is specified in the ws.legacy.url property.
    • The location of the REST API is specified in the ws.api.url property. The version of REST API is specified in the ws.api.version property.
    • If your WorldServer session ever becomes desynchronized with the HTTP session, causing the browser to enter an infinite request loop, set session.synchnorization.rate=1 in ui.properties.
  • api.properties – Contains REST API configurations.
  • tm.properties – See the "Translation Memory Administration Overview" section.
    • The scoping_mode property allows customers who have upgraded from a pre-10.0 version of WorldServer to specify whether legacy WorldServer 9.x or Studio-aligned scoping mode and leverage implementation is used for translation projects or ad-hoc translation jobs. Allowed values are worldserver9x or studio.
    • Translation memory (TM) mode mechanisms let you specify date and time replacements, as well as number and measurement replacement options. To find the settings that apply to the Studio-aligned TM mode introduced in version 10.0, search for entries that start with STUDIO_.
    • The enable_preserve_tm_entry_identifiers property should be set to True to preserve the translation memory (TM) entry identifiers whenever the TM entry is updated. By default, TM entry identifiers are mutable; they change whenever the TM entry is updated.
  • SentenceBreaker.properties and WordBreaker.properties – see WorldServer Translation Memory Administration Guide.
  • exchange.properties – A Java properties file that allows you to configure behaviors of the WorldServer import and export functions. See the File Properties appendix in the WorldServer Administrator Guide.