Wordbee Translator offers you the option to choose a translation workflow for Standard projects that includes a pivot language.
A pivot language, sometimes also called a bridge or relay language, is a language used as an intermediary language for translation between many different languages – to translate between any pair of languages A and B, one translates A to the pivot language P, then from P to B.
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How to set up a pivot language translation workflow
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To set up a simple Pivot language workflow, you could proceed as follows:
Step 1: Choose languages when creating new Standard project
When creating a new Standard project and choosing your source and target languages, you can choose one of the target languages to act as a pivot language.
Once you have decided on what tasks the project will contain, click Save.
Step 2: Choose preset workflow
Go to Project details > Workflow & Suppliers and click Edit.
Choose the preset workflow from the drop-down menu available next to Work steps. All the preset pivot language workflows have been marked with a red outline in the screenshot below.
In this example, we will choose Pivot: Translate and revise with 1 pivot language.
This will leave us with the workflow you can see on the screenshot below, where the information on the direction of the tasks is marked with a red outline.
Step 3: Add documents to translate
Go to Documents and add the documents you wish to translate under the appropriate source language folder (in this case, Japanese).
Step 4: Create jobs based on the preset workflow
Go to Jobs, click on New workflow and choose the option Create jobs based on a workflow.
In the next window click on Select multiple languages and tick all the languages that are part of your project to create the corresponding jobs.
Step 5: Choose suppliers (dependencies)
After completing all the previous steps, now you can choose the suppliers for the jobs in the workflow
You can see all the jobs created based on this workflow and by clicking on the link icon next to the description of the task, you can see the dependencies.
In the screenshot above, we can see that the job with reference Pivot language workflow in Standard/5 (English to French translation task) includes the following dependencies:
In order to start this task, as Japanese is the original source language and English is the pivot language, the Japanese to English translation (job with reference Pivot language workflow in Standard/4) task needs to be finished.
In turn, the end of the English to French translation task is a prerequisite to start the job with reference Pivot language workflow in Standard/7 (which is the English to French revision task).
Managing pivot projects is as easy as any other project. Just assign the jobs as usual, notice the dependencies and follow-up closely on the progress done by subscribing to the job events so you can prepare the delivery to the client when the final document is ready.
You can inform your suppliers of the tasks you have in store and they can plan ahead, while the actual tasks will be on hold until the previous jobs listed in the dependencies are completed.