A standards driven workflowfor Sitecore localization

@Fantpmas

Thomas VackierLocalization Engineer

Yamagata EuropeTranslating Knowledge

@YamagataEurope

Our Customer

Used to have a home-grown web CMSthat exported content to Excel

They switched to Sitecore

Their site is big

So is their need for automation

We devised an FTP hand-off

Proprietary ZIP became TIPP

TIPP structure

GUID.tipp

manifest.xml

pobjects.zip

bilingual

tm

term

attachment

Language, task, files

XLIFF

manifest.xml

<TIPManifest version="1.3">...<OrderAction>

<OrderTask><TaskType>Translate</TaskType><SourceLanguage>eng-US</SourceLanguage><TargetLanguage>spa-ES</TargetLanguage>

</OrderTask></OrderAction>...<PackageObjects>

<PackageObjectSection sectionname="bilingual"><ObjectFile> <Type>XLIFFDatabaseExport</Type> <LocationPath>...</LocationPath> <Description>Control rooms</Description></ObjectFile>

...

We wanted clean XLIFF because there is already too much bad XLIFF out there

We also wanted XLIFF to automatically update TMs after revision in Sitecore

<TaskType>TM-Update</TaskType>

XLIFF

...<trans-unit id="..."><source>

<g id="" ctype="x-html-h3">Quick preview</g>

<g id="" ctype="x-html-p">

</g><g id="" ctype="x-html-div" xhtml:class="grayBgBox"><g id="" ctype="x-html-p"><g id="" ctype="x-html-strong">Choose your brightness <x id="" ctype="lb" /></g><x id="" ctype="lb" />From December 2012 onwards, ... </g></g></source>...

linebreaks to help segmentation in memoQ

General workflow

Content is added

TIPP > FTP

Imported via API

TIPP > FTP

TIPP > FTP

Translate in

client

Translations are imported

Review is done in Sitecore

Imported via API

TM update

memoQ workflow

TIPP

ERP

Analysis

Copy & extract

1 project per TIPP File assigned per

market Resources assigned Pretranslation

Cascading filters rock

Cascading filters rock

Groups per market

Different translators per market

memoQ interface for post-processing

memoQ interface for post-processing

Conclusions

Standardization -> AutomationSeveral parties involved

Bye bye file managementAutomatic TM updates

Still time-out issuesOnly one way to ERP