Installing SDL Online Editor

Before you can use SDL Online Editor on your environment, you need to deploy it, to configure WorldServer to connect to it, to grant the appropriate permissions to your user types, and to add two new automatic actions to your workflows. SDL Online Editor is usually deployed through Chef Solo on a different machine than WorldServer.

Before you begin

To install SDL Online Editor, you need:
  • A separate machine only for SDL Online Editor.
  • Administrator permissions on the SDL Online Editor machine.
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 or 2016 (64 bit) on the SDL Online Editor machine.
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 on the SDL Online Editor machine.
  • The SDL Online Editor deployment kit (chef_solo_ue.zip). You can find it in the integrations\SDL Online Editor folder of the WorldServer distribution kit.
  • Prior knowledge about Chef Solo and about deployments performed through Chef Solo.

Minimum requirements for the SDL Online Editor machine: 2 CPU cores at 2.40 GHz each and 4 GB of RAM.

Recommended configuration for the SDL Online Editor machine: at least 4 CPU cores at 2.40 GHz each and 8 GB of RAM.

Load testing results suggest that on a WorldServer machine with 10 workflow engines where 4 of the 16 GB of RAM are allocated to Apache Tomcat, you can successfully upload ten 90000-word assets at the same time. In this case, uploading refers to the Enable Online Editing step in your workflow.

Procedure

  1. Deploy SDL Online Editor through Chef Solo.
  2. Configure WorldServer to connect to SDL Online Editor.
  3. Optional: Change the location of the SDL Online Editor log files.
  4. Grant the appropriate SDL Online Editor permissions to your user types.
  5. Modify your workflows to include the automatic actions that are specific to SDL Online Editor.