Setting up TMS
If you are using Translation Management System (TMS) as your translation system, you need to create a TMS configuration that specifies the Language Pairs, Workflows, TMS Content Types, TMs and TM Sequences to use, before you can configure Content Manager for translation.
Note: This section provides an overview of the essential configuration tasks only. For detailed information on configuration, see the TMS documentation.
- TMS (Translation Management System)
This section provides an overview of the TMS (Translation Management System). - Adding TM and TM sequences
Translation Memories (TMs) are databases in which source language sentences are stored together with their target language versions. Translation memory sequence (TM Sequences) specify which translation memories are applied to a task and the order in which they are applied. - Adding TMS File Types
A TMS File Type defines the type of content which can be passed for translation. If your version of TMS is not 11.2 or higher, you need to add a TMS File Type to TMS for each translatable Content Manager item type. If TMS receives a file from this organization and the file type does not appear here, the file will not be processed. - Adding Language Pairs
A Language Pair defines a source language for a translation and a target language. Translation Jobs can be translated from or to a language only for Language Pairs defined in TMS. - Adding Workflows
A Workflow defines a process for managing translations. - Adding a TMS configuration
A TMS configuration controls the job creation process, determining what file types can be included in the job, what languages can be processed, and how the tasks in the job will be handled and by whom. - Configuring business units (invoicing)
The<BusinessUnits>element in the TranslationManager.xml file allows the initiator of a Translation Job to specify the organizational unit of your business that is billed for the translation. The value of a business unit is passed to TMS as metadata where you need to create a Broker Script to handle it. Note that this feature is deprecated as of SDL Web 8. - Filtering translation content using ITS Filter for TMS 2011 and older
If your TMS version is 2011 (any Service Pack) or older, filter content by defining translatable fields in Schemas and adding a TMS File Type in TMS (typically called ITS) to instruct the configuration to use the ITS filter for each translatable Content Manager item type.