Configuring items for translation

You can configure your source and target translation content at Publication level or at Folder, Structure Group or Category level.

Publication level
If the content within a Publication is translated into the same languages, you can configure translation at a global level in a Publication properties.
Folder, Structure Group or Category level
If you want different content within a Publication to be translated into different languages, you can configure content for translation at a Folder, Structure Group, and Category level.
For example, you may want Components in certain Folders to be translated from English into only Italian, French, Spanish, German and Dutch while Components in other Folders you want translated into these languages and additionally all other European languages. In this case you would configure content at different Folder levels. If your content is translated into the same languages, you just need to configure content at Publication level.

You need to configure where your source content is located and where translated (target) content is put:

  • Source item—a Publication, Folder, Structure Group, or Category in the BluePrint hierarchy containing content in a source language. The languages into which a source language can be translated is configured on your translation system.
  • Target item—a Publication, Folder, Structure Group, or Category in the BluePrint hierarchy (in a Child Publication) configured to receive content translated by a translation system. The source content is in a Publication, Folder, Structure Group, or Category in a Parent Publication higher up the BluePrint hierarchy (configured as a containing source content).
  • Source/Target items—a Publication, Folder, Structure Group, or Category in the BluePrint hierarchy configured to receive content translated by a translation system, and which also contains content in a source language. The source language content can be translated content (local copies), or it can be local content (created in that Publication).