Exporting tasks as translation kits

If you want to work on one or more tasks offline, in a tool such as Trados Studio, you can export those tasks from WorldServer in the form of a translation kit.

Procedure

  1. In WorldServer, go to the Projects page.
  2. On the Projects page, do one of the following:
    • On the WorldServer 11 interface, click the name of the project that contains the tasks you want to export.
    • On the Classic interface, select the check box next to the project to export all the tasks in the project or click the name of the project to select which tasks to import.
  3. On the Tasks page, make sure that you have claimed the tasks that you want to export.
  4. Select the check boxes corresponding to the tasks that you want to export.
  5. Select Export.
  6. In the Create Translation Kit for Tasks or the Create Translation Kit for Projects dialog box, do the following:
    1. Select the format of your translation kit. You can choose between formats such as:
      NameDescription
      WSXZ1 2A WorldServer .wsxz file that you can use with Trados Studio 2022 or other supported versions.
      Bilingual DOCXAn external review document in Bilingual DOCX format.
      XLIFFA .zip archive that contains a file in XML Localization Interchange File Format.
    2. Next to TM Information, choose if you want to use the TM entries cached during the Segment Asset step, to create a new project TM, to include links, or to export only SDLXLIFF files. The TM Information section is available only if you choose the WSXZ format for your translation kit.
    3. Select the Allow split and merge check box if you want to be able to split and merge segments in the translation kit.
    4. Next to Segments to exclude, select whether or not you want to exclude certain types of segments from your translation kit, such as segments with ICE matches.
    5. If necessary, next to TM Filter and TD Filter, select an existing translation memory or terminology database attribute filter or select Add Filter to configure and add such filters 3.
  7. Do one of the following:
    • On the WorldServer 11 interface, select Export, and then select Download.
    • On the Classic interface, select OK.
    When you export a translation kit that contains the tasks in a project, WorldServer automatically adds certain information (the project ID and the target locale) to the name of the kit. On the other hand, Trados Studio has a 50-character limitation on project names. Therefore, if you export a translation kit whose name exceeds 50 characters and import it into Trados Studio, Studio will truncate its name and add other characters, according to the following example:
    • Name of the project in WorldServer: Trados_Studio_PhaseII_Test_DITA (31 characters)
    • Name of the translation kit exported from WorldServer: tasks_Trados_Studio_PhaseII_Test_DITA_43012_ru_RU_xliff.wsxz (60 characters)
    • Name of the project in Trados Studio: Trados_Studio_PhaseII_Test_D_ru_RU_20150212_110347 (50 characters)
1 When you export an updated .wsxz translation kit from WorldServer 11.1 or later and open it again in Trados Studio 2017 (Cumulative Update 5) or later, the existing project is updated in Studio. In previous versions, Studio would create a new project each time you imported the same translation kit.
2 Translation quality assessments from Online Editor and Browser Workbench are included in .wsxz translation kits starting with WorldServer 11.3. Therefore, the error types and severities configured in your project's quality model in WorldServer are converted automatically to categories and severities when you open the translation kit in Trados Studio. The errors reported in Online Editor and in Browser Workbench are also displayed in Trados Studio. For TQA profiles to be included in translation kits, make sure that the project type has a corresponding quality model.

In WorldServer 11.3.0, the tasks that you want to export also need to be in the Review step or in another step type configured in the workflow. This requirement has been removed starting with WorldServer 11.3.1.

3 TD attribute names are truncated if they exceed 50 characters.