PerfectMatch map files
Map files are used when applying PerfectMatch to your project files. Map files allow you to match the files in the new project to the translated bilingual files in the previous project.
This functionality is useful if you have a large amount of files to which you want to apply PerfectMatch and the file names have changed in the new project. Using map files avoids having to add each previous bilingual file manually for every project file in the new project.
Map files are tab delimited text files (TXT). A separate map file is required for each target language in the project. Each line in the file is made up of two components.
Component 1: The path relative to the new project folder and the file name of the file in the new project
For example, if you created the folder structure shown below on the Project Files page of the New Project wizard, the path would be the following:
Samples Folder A\SampleFileAV1.docx
If you did not create a folder structure under the project, then you would just put the file name:
SampleFileAV1.docx
Component 2: The absolute path and file name of the bilingual translated file from the previous project
[...]\Users\jsmith\Documents\Studio 2022\Projects\Project 7\de-DE\SampleFileAV2.docx.sdlxliff
Map file creation & map file examples
Map files can be created in any application that can produce tab delimited files, such as Microsoft Excel or another text editor. You can create the content of the files manually (by typing or copy/pasting the file paths) or you may have another application or script that can automatically generate the content.
Sample Folder A\SampleFileAV1.docx [...]\Users\jsmith\Documents\Studio 2022\Projects\Project 7\de-DE\SampleFileAV2.docx.sdlxliff
Sample Folder B\SampleFileBV1.docx [...]\Users\jsmith\Documents\Studio 2022\Projects\Project 7\de-DE\de-DE\SampleFileBV2.docx.sdlxliff
Sample Folder C\SampleFileCV1.docx [...]\Users\jsmith\Documents\Studio 2022\Projects\Project 7\de-DE\SampleFileCV2.docx.sdlxliff