About Managing Projects

View Project Details

The Project Details window in the Projects view is used to view details about your project, for example how many translatable files the project contains.

Editing Project Settings

You can edit some of the project settings you specified when you created a project in the New Project wizard. The settings are edited in the Project Settings dialog box.

To display this dialog box, open a project and select Project > Project Settings from the menu bar or if you have a document open in the Editor view, click Project Settings in the Translation Results window.

Opening a File

When you open a file from a project, there are three different commands available. Each command opens the file in the Editor view but the Editor configuration changes depending on which command you selected. Each configuration is designed to assist you in the task you are assigned to complete.

·         Open a File for Translation

·         Open a File for Review

·         Open a File for Sign-off

Offline Projects:  Packages

A package is used to assign work to another team member. A package contains all of the files that need to be sent to a project team member in order for them to start working on the project or it can contain work that has been completed. Once the package is created, you send it by e-mail to the team member who will be working on the project files. This eliminates the need to send multiple files or multiple e-mails and enables all project information to be sent with project files in a coherent structure.

See Project Translation: Offline Workflow for an example workflow for a project in SDL Trados Studio using packages.

Online Projects: GroupShare

In an online workflow, the project is stored as a GroupShare project on GroupShare. Team members can then connect to GroupShare to access the work that needs to be completed.

See GroupShare Project Translation: Online Workflow and GroupShare Project Translation: Mixed Online/Offline Workflow for an example workflow for a GroupShare project in SDL Trados Studio.

Marking a Project as Complete

This is a way to identify whether a project is completed and does not delete any project data or intermediate project files.