Translate Components

For each component or group of components you want translated, you must select the languages and how you want to export the files. Then Inspire creates a folder for each language you've selected. In these language folders are copies of the component files you want translated.

You must have permission to be a translation coordinator or be an administrator before you can send a component to translation or manage a translation job.

To translate content in Inspire, you can do any of the following:

  • Understand the translation process. Translating content can be an automated or manual process. Understand the translation process.
  • Read FAQs. Frequently asked questions give you answers about translation restrictions and why a job might fail.
  • Send components to translation. You can select one or more components to translate and then create the job by completing the required details.

    Before you create the job, make sure you know if you have any special requirements.

    • Check component completeness
    • Translate a foreign language to English first
    • Queue a translation job
    • Create separate translation submissions

    Send components to translation

  • Manage translation jobs. The translation work for most jobs are automatically started when you create the job. Some jobs may have been prepared but put on hold until you submit them. After a translation job has been started, you can update some details. You can also check the job status and cancel or force complete the work. For a history of work done, you can generate reports to show you all the details in one place.
    • Submit a queued translation job
    • Check the status of a translation job
    • Update translation details
    • Cancel part or all of a translation
    • Force a translation job to be Completed
    • Generate reports on translation jobs

    Manage translation jobs

Be aware of restrictions and exclusions that can be applied to components!

  • Optional feature restriction for Approval. By default, a translation coordinator can select any unlocked component and send it to translation. However, an administrator can restrict the ability to send a component to translation unless it has first been approved.
    • If an administrator sets the optional TranslationApprovedOnly feature to true and enables it:
      • In the Components browser, when using the right-click or Options menu, the Translate option cannot be selected if the component is not approved.

      • If the topic is approved, for example a map, but the references are not, the coordinator sees errors for those components that are not approved.
      • If the topic is approved, but the references are not, the translation job can't be created until one of the following occurs:
        • The TranslationApprovedOnly feature is not enabled (set to false).
        • The coordinator approves all referenced components.
        • On the Translate component screen, the coordinator clears the Include referenced components option.
  • Components can be excluded by a tag. If a user doesn't want a file sent to translation, they can use a component tag to tell other users that translation isn't required. This tag also tells Inspire not to make language copies of it or to send it to translation.
    • Inspire provides the pre-defined tag TranslateNotRequired.
    • If you apply the TranslateNotRequired tag to a component:
      • You see the component marked with a tag in the Components browser.
      • Translation coordinators can still add the tagged component to a translation job.
      • Inspire makes sure that the component isn't sent with any new translation jobs.
      • If you use this tag and the component is an XML file or a binary component such as an image or PDF file, copies of the files aren't created for translation.
      • Any links in the component continue to use references in the original language.