How to Reuse Previously Translated Files for PerfectMatch

If you create a project where the project files are closely related files that have been translated previously, for example previous versions of the same file, and you have the bilingual files that were produced at that time, PerfectMatch can extract translations from the bilingual files and apply them to the new project files. You can select these files by basing the project on a previous project on the Project Type page, or by explicitly selecting the files on the SDL PerfectMatch page of the New Project wizard.

Step 1:  Select the Previously Translated Bilingual Files

Selecting Files when you have Matching File Names

If the files in your new project have the same file names and path location within the project as the files in the previous project, you can select files using the following methods. This ensures that the bilingual files are automatically paired with the new project file.

Base Your Project on a Previous Project

1.     Display the Project Type page of the New Project wizard.  

2.     Select the Create a project based on a previous project option and then select the previous project from the drop-down list.

If you display the SDL PerfectMatch page, the previously translated bilingual files from the old project are displayed in the Previous Document column next to the corresponding new project file.

Automatically Search a Folder for the Bilingual Files

1.     Display the SDL PerfectMatch page of the New Project wizard.

2.     Select the target language to which you want to add the previously translated bilingual files, click Add and then select Matching Previous Documents from Folder.

3.     Browse to the required location, select the folder and click OK. The New Project wizard searches the folder and all sub-folders for matching previous bilingual files automatically and adds these to your project.

The previously translated bilingual files are displayed in the Previous Document column next to the corresponding project file.

NOTE

·         Even though you have selected a specific target language, the wizard will still add any matching bilingual files that it finds for the other target languages in your folder. ·         If the wizard finds other SDL XLIFF files that do not match the file names in your project, it displays an error message stating the number of files it has been unable to add out of the number of files found.

Selecting Files when you have Different File Names

If the file names in your new project are different to the file names in the previous project, select the files using the following methods to pair the bilingual files with the new project file:

Manually Add Previous Bilingual Files

1.     Display the SDL PerfectMatch page of the New Project wizard.

2.     Select the target language to which you want to add previous bilingual files.

3.     Select the file under the Project File column for which you want to add a previous bilingual file, click Add and then select Specific Previous Document.

4.     Browse to the required location, select the previous bilingual file and click Open.

The previous translated bilingual files is displayed in the Previous Document column next to the corresponding project file.

Add Files Using a Map File

To avoid adding each previous bilingual file manually if file names have changed since previous projects, you can add a map file, which maps all of the previous bilingual file names to the new file names. This is useful if file names have changed, but files still match in content, and you do not want to add each file manually.

NOTE	You must add a separate map file for each target language.

1.     Display the SDL PerfectMatch page of the New Project wizard.

2.     Select the target language to which you want to add previous bilingual files, click Add and then select Previous Documents from Map.

3.     Browse to the required location, select the map file and click Open.

The previous bilingual files are displayed in the Previous Document column next to the corresponding project file.

Step 2:  Specify the Origin and Status to Use

Decide what translation origin and status to use for the translations that are extracted from the previously translated files and applied to the new project files. For more information about these options and the scenarios in which you would use them,

Display the SDL PerfectMatch page of the New Project wizard.

1.     Under Translation transfer options, select one of the following options:

·         Apply PerfectMatch and lock: Use this option if you are applying PerfectMatch from a project that has fully reviewed translations. This will mark all approved translations as PerfectMatch with a status of Signed Off.

·         Use the original translation origin and status: Use this option if you want to use the same origin, status, score and target comments as the original document