Translation Manager system diagram

Translation Manager integrates Content Manager of SDL Tridion with a translation management system (the SDL Translation Management System (SDL TMS) or SDL WorldServer).

The following diagram shows the Translation Manager software components and how they integrate the Content Manager of SDL Tridion with the translation management system.

Translation Manager consists of the following software components that integrate the Content Manager of SDL Tridion with a translation management system.

Content Manager Explorer Translation Extension
Enables users to initiate and track translations from the Content Manager Explorer, the Web-based Graphical User Interface to the Content Manager.
Translation Manager core
Contains the communication logic between translation management system and the Content Manager. The Translation Manager accesses the translation management system to retrieve configuration information used to configure Publications and Organizational Items for translation, stores Translation Jobs in a database, and receives status updates on translations.
Translation Manager Service
Synchronizes the translation management and Content Manager systems. The Translation Manager Service reads Translation Jobs from the Translation Manager database and performs the actions necessary to handle the jobs such as localizing and checking items out, creating jobs for transferral to translation management system, copying over and checking items in when translations have been completed, and updating the status of jobs.
Translation Manager Database
Stores Translation Jobs created in the Content Manager.