Automation

The Automation features of Beebox are among the most exciting. Who does not dream of a fully automated translation workflow?

Automatic vs Manual Operations

While you can control each translation workflow step manually with the user interface, you can also automate some or even all operations:

Automatically detect new or changed source files (reception)
Automatically extract content to translate, according to your text extraction rules
Automatically align source and target files, on the fly

Automatically machine translate content
Automatically pseudo-translate content (also called dummy translation often used by localization teams)
Automatically create human translation jobs
Automatically send jobs to XLIFF hotfolders, Wordbee Translator or other TMS
Automatically receive translations back from XLIFF hotfolders or Wordbee Translator
Automatically cancel jobs if source files are deleted

Automatically create the translated files when all translations are received (or approved)
Automatically execute a Powershell script to deliver translations
Automatically execute C# code to deliver translations

We recommend reading the following page to get a better idea how Beebox workflows work: Translation Process

Executing Automatic Operations

Automatic operations, if enabled, run every so many seconds, minutes or hours. You configure the interval.

You can also choose to trigger automatic operations only when you click the Start Autorun link below the left navigation menu. Finally, operations can be triggered using the API.

Configuration

The automation settings are accessed in the Settings section of a project: