Configuring the connector

The configuration of the Drupal connector involves creating a Trados provider.

Procedure

  1. From the Drupal Administration menu, select Manage > Translation.
  2. On the Translation page, select Providers > Add provider.
  3. In the Label and Description fields, enter a suitable name and description for your provider.
  4. Optional: Select the Auto accept finished translations checkbox if you do not have a review step in your translation flow.
    This action automatically accepts finished translations without you having to accept them manually after processing.
  5. In the Provider plugin list, select RWS Translation Management.
  6. Under RWS TRANSLATION MANAGEMENT PLUGIN SETTINGS, enter the Trados URL, the corresponding client ID and secret, as well as the user name and password provided by your RWS LDTS.
  7. Clear the Use Xliff Processing checkbox.
    By doing so, translatable text will be exported in CDATA format.
  8. Optional: Select the Download translation as zip checkbox if you want to download the translation as part of a single .zip file.
  9. Optional: Select the Custom Fields checkbox if the RWS configuration contains custom fields and you want to use them during project creation.
  10. Optional: Select the Use Multilingual checkbox if you want to submit multilingual projects.
  11. Optional: Select the Translation of Queue Items checkbox if you want the connector to automatically process the items in the entity queue to submit multilingual projects. A screen shot of the plugin settings section.
  12. Expand the REMOTE LANGUAGES MAPPINGS section to view the list of mappings between your Drupal languages and the languages in Trados.
    Language codes are usually filled in automatically for the languages supported by Trados. If a language code is blank, you have to enter it manually.A screen shot that shows a few language codes in the Remote Language Mappings section.
  13. Select Save.

Results

When you select the Providers tab, you can find your newly created provider on the Translation Management Providers page. A screen shot that shows how the newly configured provider will look like on the Providers tab.