Component IDs are a nifty means to group related segments.
Typical use cases:
Localizing software: The strings in a software product are often organized by project, module or namespace. For example, assign a string’s namespace to the component ID.
Localizing web sites: Assign a unique web page identifier or URL to each segment’s component ID.
When you push new strings or string updates simply set the “component” property with each segment. See apps/wbflex/documents/{id}/contents/push
When pulling segments, you get back the assigned component ID.
You can enumerate all components in a Flex document including the segment count. apps/wbflex/documents/{id}/components
You can get all components that were fully translated “recently”. This makes it easy to deliver back translations, component by component, and language by language. apps/wbflex/documents/{id}/components/status
Pulling segments by a list of components opens up new horizons for a advanced localization scenarios.
The component-specific methods are: