XTM Cloud 12.8
Date: July 4, 2021
General
Filter templates feature user interface and performance have been enhanced. Users can also configure custom variables.
Malay (Jawi) language has been added to XTM.
Project Management
Administrators can now choose a new metrics calculation method for optimized TM leverage results.
PDF and XLS export capabilities have been extended. A back translation column can now be added to the extended table.Â
The new Manage project section encompasses managing workflow with extended functionalities for many projects at once such as:
 setting datesÂ
defining due dates or overwriting existing due dates
assigning PMs
A new icon notifies Project managers if the target files cannot be generated.
The Weighted Word count category has been added to the Project list, workflow and Tasks view.
Workbench
A brand-new grammar checker feature has been added to the QA profile.
In-context translation in XTM Visual mode is now also available for MS Word files and PDF files.
XTM can now handle language variants supported in the TermWeb terminology engine.
Terms in XTM Workbench are now highlighted much more clearly thanks to improved text decoration.
NLP
XTM now supports Unicode emoticons in the bilingual terminology extraction and in the Aligner.
The Bilingual Term Extraction feature has been improved and now includes:
Rendering term in canonical nominative form if possible
Elimination of inappropriate candidate terms
Extensive reworking of compound nouns for Dutch, German, Danish and Swedish
Machine Translation
The SYSTRAN MT output can now be dynamically enhanced by high fuzzy matches coming from the translation memory.
A wide range of languages available in the DeepL machine translation engine has been added to XTM. Added languages include Czech, Bulgarian, Danish, Greek, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Â Latvian, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian and Swedish.
Translation Memory Management
Users can now choose to maintain the leading and trailing whitespaces while importing a translation memory file in the Translation Memory Manager.
XTM API
A new REST API method enables downloading source file(s) for a project.
It is now possible to remove a target language thanks to a new API method.
REST API has been enhanced with a method to define callback authorization credentials for each XTM integration.
Language combinations assigned to a specific customer can now be obtained via a new REST API method.Â
Metric files for a specific job or an entire project can now be downloaded through REST API.