How to work with GlobalLink Enterprise

You can integrate the content you develop in Inspire with GlobalLink Enterprise (formerly known as Project Director) to easily manage translations.

Project Director has been renamed to GlobalLink Enterprise.

How to work with GlobalLink Enterprise:

Prerequisites

• Before you send translation requests from Inspire, you must make sure your translation project is configured in GlobalLink Enterprise (formerly called Project Director).
• Your project configuration will contain information such as the source and target languages you use.

Send files to translation.

By default, a translation coordinator can select any unlocked component and send it to translation.

• However, an administrator can remove the ability to send a component to translation unless it has been approved.
• For more details, read Automating translation with GlobalLink Enterprise.

To send files to translation:

In Translation Project, select a configuration that uses the PD Rest Api or GlobalLink Portal.

• An advantage to using GlobalLink Portal (formerly GlobalLink Transport) is that if a vendor finds errors in a file, you can log in and Resend corrected files using GlobalLink Portal. This allows you to correct files and resend them without having to create a new translation project. If you do want to create a new translation project you can do that in Inspire.
• If you select a PD Rest Api configuration, you can add the Inspire Translation Job Id to the Submission Name.
  • This lets you see the Inspire Job Id in GlobalLink Enterprise.
  • To add the job ID, on the Translate component screen, select Prepend Translation Job Id to Submission Name

In Translation Target, to create a request that doesn't fail, you must:

• Select a target language that is different from the language used in the source components.
• Select a target language that exists in your project configuration in GlobalLink Enterprise (formerly known as Project Director).

For example, you include source components that are written in Japanese instead of English. When you request that the source content be translated into Japanese, that creates a language pair of Japanese to Japanese. However, in GlobalLink Enterprise you have a source-target language pair defined as English to Japanese.

• If you submit a translation request for a language pair that does not exist in GlobalLink Enterprise, you see a failure notification.
• If the language pair cannot be found, the translation job will not be created.

If required, include additional information on the Attributes tab.

If your organization is using custom schemas, select Include Schema. On the Translate components screen, go to the Components tab and add the schema file.

Inspire automatically sends the files to GlobalLink Enterprise so the work can be done there.

After you've added all the information about translating components, click Translate.

You can track the progress of a translation job on the Translations Management tab.

• On the Translations Management tab, you can now see a SubId column.
• GlobalLink Enterprise generates the submission ID shown in the SubId column.
• You can sort the list of jobs by the SubId column to find those sent to GlobalLink Enterprise.
• You can only use Advanced Search to find a GlobalLink Enterprise job by SubId. Use the field called Translation SubId. Use advanced search to find a translation job.

To open the Translations Management tab, from the top menu, click Translations.

On the Translations Management tab, the State column displays the following status:

• In Progress (previously, At Vendor) — when all files in a job have been sent to GlobalLink Enterprise.
• Partially Completed (previously In Progress) — when a subset of the files have been sent back to Inspire.

If you look at a translation job and in the State column and see Failed Retrieving, it could indicate the following issues:

• This submission isn't done. Check the file's transfer progress in GlobalLink Enterprise.
• The translation file may have been corrupted during transmission. Check the file in GlobalLink Enterprise and if it's OK then resend it to Inspire.

GlobalLink Enterprise receives the files and adds the job to the Submissions list.

If you included a schema, the translator can download it by:

When work is complete, GlobalLink Enterprise sends the translated files back to Inspire.

When the translator marks the Submission as Complete, GlobalLink Enterprise sends the translated files back to Inspire.

The translation coordinator is notified by email.

Inspire imports the translated versions.

When you create the translation job, for each component or group of components you want translated, you must select the languages you want the source files translated into.

Then Inspire creates a folder for each language you've selected.

When Inspire receives translated files back from GlobalLink Enterprise, it puts them in the language folders.