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Guidelines

  1. First of all, if you would like to allow the users to translate offline, you need to have an Administrator role in order to enable such an option in Configuration → Settings → Translation → Workflow and access → Linguist general optionsAllow linguists to download/upload.

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  1. After you generate the XLIFF file, you can download it by clicking the blue arrow.

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  1. A generated XLIFF file can be translated in any text editor or used as a source file in another CAT tool that supports this format.

  2. The finished translation file can be then reuploaded to XTM Cloud. Select in Project editor → Files → Offline translation,using the purple arrow this time.

At this stage, you can specify the workflow step to which you would like to upload your translation and specify what segments are to be approved immediately:

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  1. In Project Editor → Files → Offline translation, generate and download an offline XLIFF file, as usual.

  2. Open the downloaded file for editing, preferably in Notepad++.

  3. Find and select segments (trans-units) that you would like to lock in XTM Workbench.

  4. Within the <trans-unit … > element:

  • add the xtm:locked= attribute and one of the following variations of its value: “yes”, “true”, “y”. For example: xtm:locked="yes", to have the segment locked in XTM Workbench.

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  • add the xtm:locked= attribute and one of the following variations of its value: “no”, “false”, “n”. For example: xtm:locked="no", to make sure that the segment is not locked in XTM Workbench.

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