Configuring and using a new continuous translation job
A continuous translation job enables new and updated content to be sent to the configured translator, for translation, automatically and continuously.
The content in one continuous translation job is of a selected type, and for a specific language pair.
Other content types are not sent for translation in that particular continuous translation job. (A different continuous translation job could be created for a different content type.)
When Translation Requesters create new content of the type specified in step 3. below, it will automatically be added to the relevant continuous translation job. There is no need to add content manually. The added content will then be sent for translation automatically, at the time interval set for cron jobs in the Administration settings.
You configure a continuous translation job from the Job overview screen in the Jobs tab screen.
In the Job overview screen, in the Jobs tab, select the Add continuous job button. It is on the top left, by the Job overview screen title. A New Continuous Job screen is displayed.
Mandatory – enter the name and make the basic settings for your new continuous job:
Label text field: enter the continuous job name.
Source language dropdown: select the job's source language.
Target language dropdown: select the job's target language.
Owner text field: enter the Drupal account for which you are creating the job.
In the CONTINUOUS SETTINGS section, select the relevant checkboxes to specify which sources are to be enabled for this continuous job:
Content.
Custom block.
Custom menu link.
In the CONFIGURE PROVIDER section, make the settings needed to configure the required translation provider for this continuous translation job:
Mandatory – Provider dropdown: select the relevant instance of XTM Cloud as the translation provider.
CHECKOUT SETTINGS: select the required XTM project template for this project. If that template has the appropriate setting, projects created with it will be started automatically. See Note:
Note
Automation feature, XTM Cloud Project template editor
In the XTM Cloud Project template editor, one of the settings for an XTM Cloud project template is the Automatically start the project checkbox in the Workflow tab screen. If this checkbox is selected, for a particular project template, projects created using that template, in Drupal, will be started automatically in XTM Cloud.
Project mode:
In this section, select one of these options to specify how source translation items in your multilingual project are sent to XTM Cloud, for translation, and then returned to Drupal:
Single file: all source translation items are sent to XTM Cloud in a single XML file, and then returned to Drupal in a single file at the end of the project.
Multiple files: the content from each source translation item is sent to XTM Cloud in its own, separate XML file. As soon as each file is completed, it is returned to Drupal.
Multiple files: the content from each source translation item is sent to XTM Cloud in its own, separate XML file. No translations are returned to Drupal until every file is completed. Translations are then all returned at once in a batch, in their separate, individual files.
To confirm your entries and settings, and create the continuous translation job, select the Save job button at the bottom of the screen.
Result: you have created a continuous translation job. The job is added to the jobs list in the Job overview screen.
When Translation Requesters create new content of the type specified in step 3. above, it will automatically be added to the relevant continuous translation job. There is no need to add content manually. The added content will then be sent for translation automatically, at the time interval set for cron jobs in the Administration settings.
Note
You can also trigger processing of existing continuous translation jobs manually, if required.