Setting up SDL TMS
If you are using SDL Translation Management System (TMS) as your translation system, you need to create an SDL TMS configuration that specifies the Language Pairs, Workflows, Content Types, TMs and TM Sequences to use, before you can configure Content Manager for translation.
Note: This section provides an overview of the essential configuration tasks only. For detailed information on configuration, see the SDL TMS documentation.
- SDL Translation Management System
This section provides an overview of the SDL Translation Management System (SDL TMS). - Adding TM and TM sequences
Translation Memories (TMs) are databases in which source language sentences are stored together with their target language versions. Translation memory sequence (TM Sequences) specify which translation memories are applied to a task and the order in which they are applied. - Adding Content Types
A Content Type defines the type of content which can be passed for translation. You need to add a Content Type to SDL TMS for each translatable Content Manager item type. If SDL TMS receives a file from this organization and the file type does not appear here, the file will not be processed. - Adding Language Pairs
A Language Pair defines a source language for a translation and a target language. - Adding Workflows
A Workflow defines a process for managing translations. - Adding an SDL TMS configuration
A SDL TMS configuration controls the job creation process, determining what file types can be included in the job, what languages can be processed, and how the tasks in the job will be handled and by whom. - Refreshing the SDL TMS configuration cache
If you add a Language Pair to an existing configuration that is being used by a configured Publication in the Content Manager, you will have to wait one hour for the configuration cache to clear before you can configure a Target Publication using this new language. To use the configuration immediately, you need to restart the Tridion Translation Manager Service. - Configuring business units (invoicing)
The<BusinessUnits>element in the TranslationManager.xml file allows the initiator of a Translation Job to specify the organizational unit of your business that is billed for the translation. The value of a business unit is passed to SDL TMS as metadata where you need to create a Broker Script to handle it. - Filtering translation content
If you are using a version of SDL TMS prior to version 2011 SP1, use ANL files, Content Types and<ItemTypes>in the TranslationManager.xml file to filter your translation content. If you are using SDL TMS 2011 SP1 or onwards, configure translatable fields in Schemas to control what fields are sent to translation. - Filtering translation content using ITS Filter
If you are using version SDL TMS 2011 SP1 or onwards, you should filter content by defining translatable fields in Schemas and adding a Content Type in SDL TMS called ITS to instruct the configuration to use the ITS filter for each translatable Content Manager item type.