Add Regular Project

Choose to either clone an existing project or to create a new project from scratch.

When you select a project from the pick list, most other form options disappear.

Choose one source language and one or more target languages.

Decide how content is translated:

• Manual operations: Use if you do not want any automatic operations but run operations manually from the UI.
• Testing: Use for testing a fully automated workflow. All content added to the project will be pseudo-translated by converting it to uppercase.
• Machine translation: All content will be translated by a machine translation system like Google or Microsoft. You will be asked to choose one.
• Human translation using Wordbee Translator: All content will be sent to your own translation management system (TMS) or that of your translation service provider.
• Human translation using xliff hotfolders: All content will be sent to a TMS by means of xliff files which are exchanged via hotfolders. Some third party TMS support this.
• Human translation using manual xliff exchange: Translation is done using xliff. You download xliff files and send to your translators.

If you are a Beebox expert you can fine tune or change workflows anytime later with the automation settings. For example to combine machine and human translation.

Option available with certain workflows only.

The Beebox processes content sent by the CMS in regular intervals. Specify this interval. For a test workflow you may want to chose a small interval like 10 seconds or 5 minutes to reduce wait times. During production we recommend to choose 30 minutes or more.

Option available with certain workflows only. 

The rule of thumb is: Untick the option to get higher quality translations. When a CMS sends new content, the Beebox will attempt to pretranslate sentences from earlier completed translations. For example, "click here" may have been translated in the past already. Now, it may be that the perfect translation changes depending on the text coming just before and after the sentence (we call this the "context"). The option basically tells whether we want or do not want to send a pretranslated sentence again to a human translator if the context is different than in the past.

All project related files are stored in a directory inside c:\beebox (or similar).

The directory name on disk is either the unique project key (assigned by system) or the project name. The former might look like "c:\beebox\c8ae1d0a-c650-4e39-88de-fa580c87de03" and the latter like "c:\beebox\myproject".

Customizing source and target file locations

By default, the directories containing your source and target files are \in and \out inside the project directory.

Change this only if source or target files must be stored in specific locations such FTP or Cloud Sharing directories on the server.

Tick the Customize file locations option and type directory paths into one or both fields: