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Step 1: Creating the project in One Step

All the settings you need to create a project are available on the One Step page of the Create New Project wizard. However, you can further customize your project settings by going through all the Create New Project wizard steps.

Before you begin

Place the project source files in a folder and place any reference files in a sub-folder to the project source files.

Create projects from individual files or from multiple files organized in a folder. You may want to add all reference files in a separate subfolder.

Decide:
  • Which translation memories (TMs) you want to be applied to the file
  • Which tasks you want the project wizard to perform on your files (for example, convert files to translatable format)
  • What target languages the files are to be translated into
  • Whether this project should be based on settings used in an earlier project or a template

About this task

The fastest way to create projects is if you base projects on the default template, a custom template or a previous project. The new project will take on the settings of the template or of the previous project you choose. You can edit the project settings after the project is created, if needed.

You must specify the usage and file settings for the files you added to the project, so that translators and reviewers can start working with them. You can also merge multiple files together, add folder files or create new folder files to structure the work according to your needs. If you select files in a folder structure, this structure will be replicated in the target language folders. The Create a New Project wizard creates a folder for every target language you have selected and places the prepared *.sdlxliff files and any reference files in the appropriate language folder.

The Create a New Project wizard automatically adds the file type settings to the relevant files once it has identified the file type. These settings can be modified as needed.

Procedure

  1. Go to the Welcome view and drag the files you want to translate as well as the reference files on the Welcome screen.
  2. In the Translate dialog, select Create new project.
  3. In the Create a New Project wizard, on the One Step page, select a project template or a previous project to base your current project on from the Use Settings from list. You can choose to base your project on:
    • The default project template that is provided with Trados Studio and contains the default settings specified in the Options dialog.
    • A custom template, if the default project template is not suitable to your needs.
    • A previous project, in which case, the settings and resources selected in the previous project are copied to the new project. In addition, if the files in your new project have the same file names and path location within the project as the files in the previous project, translations are extracted from the previous project files and transferred to the new project files when PerfectMatch is applied. If you create a project based on previous project, your current project inherits all the translation resources and all the project settings of the original project.
    If the project or project template you want to base you new project on is not in the Use Settings from list, you can browse your computer for it.
  4. Fill in a project name and choose a location to save the project.
  5. Specify the source language for your project (the language from which you are translating). The same source text can be translated into several target languages.
  6. You can find the files you added to the project in the Project Files list, but you can also add more files or manage the ones already added:
    • Select Add Files, to add files individually.
    • Select Add Existing Folders to add a folder containing files from your computer.
    • Select Create New Folder to help you manage your project files.
    • Select files and then select Remove files to remove the files you do not want in your project files list.
  7. If the file usage is incorrect, select the file and then, in the Usage column of the project files list, choose the correct file usage:
    • Translatable
    • Reference
    • Localizable
  8. If you need to make adjustments to file types settings, in the File Type Indentifier column of the project files list, select Go to File Types Settings and make your changes.
  9. Decide whether you want to merge several files into one single file, which can help you work faster as you can maximize the advantages of features like auto-propagation, spell-checking and verification when working in a single, bigger file. Select the files you want to merge (you can use Ctrl or Shift to select multiple files), and then select Merge Selected Files. Enter a name for the merged file and select the folder where you want it to be created.
  10. You are now ready to create your project with the One Step workflow. However, you can further customize the project settings by going through the other pages of the Create New Project wizard.
    • Select Finish to start the project creation and jump to the Summary page of the Create New Project wizard (see Step 9).
    • Select Next to further customize your project settings (see Step 2).