How to Transalate in Memsource

To translate the content you’ve just exported from the EPI Server, you can use the Memsource Cloud service. Memsource Cloud makes your translation process efficient and streamlined.

To begin with, log in to the Memsource Cloud service and create a project. As an alternative, you can use the existing one.

When you’ve created (or selected) a project, open it and the system will navigate you to the main project form. This form represents the project information you’ve provided:

• 'Name' - project name.
• 'Created by' - represents a user who created a project.
• 'Created' - project creation date.
• 'Status' - project status.
• 'Source Language' - the source language of document/-s you plan to translate in the scope of a project.
• 'Target Languages' - a list of the languages you plan to translate your source document/-s to.
• 'Machine Translation' - machine translation option (if you plan to use one).
• 'Owner' - user who owns a project.

Project form also represents a list of translation jobs created within a project. From the beginning, this list is empty and you need to create one to proceed. To do this, please press 'New' button in the list of jobs. Once done, you will be navigated to the following job form:

These settings don't fit iLangL Cloud configuration perfectly but in most cases they suffice to create a workable job. 

Please note several important aspects:

1. You have to upload a source file you plan to translate (the one, you’ve exported from your website). 
2. Select one or several target languages.

3. Make sure that values for the following settings are set as described below:

HTML:
Preserve whitespaces = TRUE

Exclude elements: ilangldonottranslate


XML:
Format of import rules: XPath

Elements & attributes: //*[not(self::ilangldonottranslate)]


Elements (processed as HTML): //group/trans-unit/source


Context note: ../../@name


Preserve whitespaces: //*

4. Click 'Create'. Done! - Job is now created.

From this point on, the actual translation begins. To start the translation, click the 'File' link in the 'Jobs' table. This will navigate you to the “Memsource Web Editor” - the page where you will actually translate source content segment by segment.

Note: if you select for ex. 4 target languages when adding a job , 4 jobs will be created (1 for each unique language pair).

Here, you basically translate the content from the source section into the target one. When target segment is translated, put a green check-mark to indicate the translation progress.

Useful hot-keys:

• Ctrl + Insert - copies source segment content into the target one (including tags).
• Ctrl + Enter - confirms currently focused segment (puts a check-mark).

As your translation moves on, the job progress will be reflected in the jobs table of the project form (“Confirmed %” column).

When a file is finally translated, you can download it (via the function shown on the picture above) and move on to importing the translated content back to your website.