This article provides instructions for installing and configuring the “XTM Connect – Trados Studio” XTM connector plugin (referred to below as “XTM Connect – Trados Studio”. It also covers some basics with regard to display and navigation.

1. Turn Trados Studio on.

2. Open XTM Connect – Trados Studio with the Plugin Manager (or double-click on XTM Connect – Trados Studio if the .sdlplugin extension is associated with the Plugin Manager).

3. Select the required Trados installation and the location where you want to install XTM Connect – Trados Studio. Click the Next button.

4. When installation has finished, click Finish. When you open Trados Studio, you should see XTM Connect – Trados Studio, which has been installed correctly.

Once XTM Connect – Trados Studio is installed and you open Trados Studio, you should see the XTM Tasks tab.

It is necessary to log in to XTM Connect – Trados Studio with a Linguist account. A Trados Connector license (or API license) in XTM Cloud is required for correct login.

Actions

Using the Actions, you can:

• download the XTM Cloud task source file.

• download the source file for the XTM Cloud task and create a project for it.

• upload the translation for a selected XTM Cloud task to the XTM Cloud.

• upload the translation for a selected XTM Cloud task to XTM Cloud and automatically finish the workflow step for that task.

• finish the workflow step for the selected XTM Cloud task.

Options

Using the Options, you can:

• generate a ZIP package which contains logs and an SQLITE database which is used to store some data. To do so, click the Download Logs button. You can use this option if you are asked to attach some additional data when reporting a problem.

• click the Release Notes button to open the release notes in the browser.

• click the Help button to open the connector documentation in the browser.

• click the Log out button, which will log the user out of the connector.

Filters tab

In the Filters tab screen, you can filter the list of XTM Cloud tasks:

• XTM Cloud project name.

• Trados Studio project name.

• XTM Cloud workflow step.

• Trados Studio project status.

• XTM Cloud due date.

• Trados Studio due date.

Creating a translation project in Trados Studio

To enable a Linguist to work on XTM Cloud tasks in Trados Studio, it is necessary to create a Trados Studio translation project first. The XTM Cloud tasks will then be bound to the created project.

It is possible to create a single Trados Studio project for multiple XTM Cloud tasks. Once the project has been created, it is not possible to add new XTM Cloud tasks to it.

To create a project in Trados Studio, select a task (or tasks) and click the Download source file and create Trados Studio project option.

In the project creation form, we can:

• select a Trados Studio project template.

• set the project name.

• set the path where the project will be created.

• set the project due date.

Once the project has been created, it is listed in the Project tab.

Trados Studio Editor

To open the Editor, you need to open a project in Trados Studio. Use the left-hand tab to switch between different target languages. Once you have found the file you want to translate, simply double-click on it to open the Editor:

• You can enter translations in the editor.

• You can change the status of the segments in the file.

• You can list comments and add new ones as needed.

Custom XLIFF mapping configuration in XTM Cloud

It is possible to configure custom XLIFF mapping in XTM Cloud.

Custom XLIFF mapping configuration in Trados Studio

It is possible to configure XLIFF status mapping in Trados Studio. To do so:

1. Select File → Options.

2. Select XTM XLIFF.

3. If required, in the File opening section, define mappings between XLIFF and Trados statuses when files are downloaded from XTM Cloud.

4. If required, in the File save section, define mappings between XLIFF and Trados statuses when files are uploaded to XTM Cloud.

5. If required, in the Segment locking section, define which segments are to be locked, to prevent them from being translated, based on XLIFF state qualifiers.