Creating a project

Projects can be created from any view in SDL Trados Studio. New translations projects are created using the New Project wizard.

Before you begin

Before you start:
  • Place the project source files in a folder.
  • Place the any reference files in a sub-folder to the project source files.
  • Decide which translation memories you want to be applied to the file.
  • Decide which tasks you want the project wizard to perform on your files (for example, convert files to translatable format).
  • Decide what target languages the files are to be translated into.
  • Have decided whether this project should be based on settings used in an earlier project or a template.

Step 1: Creating a project

Procedure

To start the wizard, click File > New > New Project from the Ribbon or click New Project on the Home tab on the Welcome screen. The New Project wizard is displayed.

Step 2: Specifying project type

Procedure

  1. Specify if you want to base your project on a template or a previous project on the Project Type page:
    • Create a project based on a project template: The Default template is provided with Studio and contains the default settings specified in the Options dialog box.
    • Create a project based on a previous project: 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. Additional PerfectMatch options can be specified on the SDL PerfectMatch page in Step 7.
  2. Click Next.

Step 3: Entering basic project details publishing to GroupShare

Procedure

  1. Enter basic project details on the Project Details page: Project Name, Description, Location, Due Date and Customer.
  2. To share your project online with other team members, select Publish project on GroupShare (Project Server) and specify the server information. This option is only available if you have SDL Studio GroupShare.
  3. To allow team members for this project to edit content in source segments, select the Allow source editing for supported file types check box. See About source segment text corrections for more information.
  4. For users that you assigned work on an project package, you can also enforce running a verification task before creating a return package and sending their work back by enabling the corresponding check box.
  5. Click Next.

Step 4: Specifying project languages

Procedure

  1. Specify your source language (the language from which you are translating) and the target languages (the languages into which you are translating) on the Project Languages page.
  2. Click Next.

Step 5: Selecting project files

Procedure

  1. Select your project files on the Project Files page.
  2. Define the following settings for your project files:
    • Change their usage (for translation, reference)
    • Merge files
    • Specify file type settings
  3. Click Next

Step 6: Selecting translation resources

Procedure

  1. Select your translation memories, automated translation servers and AutoSuggest dictionaries on the Translation Memory and Automated Translation page.
  2. Select your SDL MultiTerm (Desktop) termbases on the Termbases page.
  3. Specify your translation memory settings:
    • Search Settings
    • Filters
    • Penalties
    • Custom Field Values
    • Language Resource Templates
  4. Click Next

Step 7: Reusing translations from previously translated files in PerfectMatch

Procedure

  1. If closely related files have been translated previously, for example previous versions of the same file, and you have the bilingual files that were produced at that time, PerfectMatch can extract translations from the bilingual files and apply them to the new project files. You can select these files on the SDL PerfectMatch page.
  2. Select the translation origin and status to use for the transferred translations. Choose if you want them to display as PerfectMatch translations or if they should retain their original translation origin and status.
  3. Click Next.

Step 8: Processing Files

Procedure

  1. Select the preparation steps (tasks) to be performed on the files of the newly created project on the Project Preparation page.
  2. Click Next.
  3. Specify what settings are applied when the tasks selected are performed on the Batch Processing page.
  4. Click Next

Step 9: Preparing Project

Procedure

  1. Review your selections on the Project Summary page.
  2. When you have finished selecting the settings you want to prepare the project, click Finish to create the project. The Preparing Project page is displayed whilst your project is being created. Progress bars indicate what task the process has reached. Once a task is complete:
    • To see errors or reports based on the task, select the task and click Task Results. The Task Results dialog box is displayed:
    • If the task completed with errors, this icon is displayed beside the task.
    • If the task completed successfully, this icon is displayed beside the task.

Step 10: Creating or editing project templates

Procedure

  1. When all of the tasks have been completed on the Preparing Project page and the project has been created, the Project Template settings are displayed. Specify if you want to save the project settings for future use in a template by:
    • Creating a new template
    • Editing the template on which you based the project
    • Not saving the settings to a template
  2. Click Close to exit the New Project wizard. This button is not active until the project is created. If a project was not created due to errors in the tasks, this button remains inactive. Click Back to change the settings and restart the creating process.