Understand translation job queuing

When you create a translation job, you must enter the required information about the job, and the select to either start to Translate or Queue the job. If you want to create a translation job but you're not ready to send it yet, you can put the job on hold. Queuing a job starts the translation process by creating the target language folders and files. Queuing also locks the files.

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.

You can queue a translation job for all types of Translation Projects.

Create a queued translation job

When you click Queue:

  1. Inspire prepares the job.
  2. The job is put on hold.
  3. To start a queued job, do one of the following:
    1. Send for quote.
    2. Submit.

1. Inspire prepares the job

If you select Queue, you are putting the translation job on hold until you start the Quote or Submit process.

  • In the Translations module, on the Translation Management screen, the State is set to Queued Submission.
  • Inspire creates a folder for each language you select. The folder's location is based on the component you select for translation. For example:
    • If you select a component in the following folder and want to translate it to French: My Components / Chapter 1
    • Then Inspire creates a sub folder here: My Components / Chapter 1 / fr-FR
  • Inspire creates a copy of the component you want translated and puts it into the new language folder. A new copy, also known as the target translation component, is created for each language you selected.
    • For example, the My Components / Chapter 1 / fr-FR folder now has a copy of the Introduction component you selected: My Components / Chapter 1 / fr-FR / introduction_fr-FR.xml.
  • Inspire may set the Reading property when creating target components for translation. For example: <concept id="concept_guid" xml:lang="ar-Ar" dir="rtl">. Inspire sets the Reading property in the following cases:
    • If it doesn't exist yet.
    • Only if the language Reading property is rtl (Right-to-Left). Inspire makes no changes if the language Reading property is ltr (Left-to-Right).

2. The job is put on hold

In the Translations module, on the Translation Management screen, the State is set to Queued Submission.

No requests are sent to GlobalLink yet.

Check the status of a translation job

3. To start the job

If you select Queue, you are putting the translation job on hold until you do ONE of the following:

  • Send for quote

    Important notes:

    • In Inspire, an administrator must configure a Translation Integration Method to allow the use of quotes. Enable quotes for translation projects
    • In GlobalLink Enterprise, an administrator must configure the associated Translation Project. Configure a GlobalLink project for quotes
    • Quotes must be approved for translation work to begin.

      The Inspire user does not have to approve all quotes before translation work begins in GlobalLink Enterprise. However, this behavior may vary depending on how you have configured your Project in GlobalLink Enterprise.

    • If you request a quote, translation work is automatically started after you approve the quotes. You do NOT have to manually Submit the job. Approve a quote for a translation job
    • If you don't want to approve quotes, you must cancel the translation job.

    Request a quote for a translation job

  • Submit

    Before you submit a queued job, you can update the following job properties:

    • On the Details tab: Name (of the job), Description, and (Translation) Coordinator
    • On the Languages tab: Cancel (a language)
    • On the Components tab: Cancel (a component translation)
    • On the Integration tab: nothing
    • On the Reference only tab: nothing

    Update a queued translation job

    After you Submit a queued job, translation work in GlobalLink Enterprise starts immediately.

    Submit a queued translation job