Web8 | Translation Manager | Translating Job timeout

Question

Is there any configuration setting we can use set the max time for waiting for a job to be returned / marked as ready for returning from a Translation Provider.

Some jobs may be complex and take more time than is available before a go-live for example.

Are there any configuration/settings where we can set the time-out?

Answer 1

Assuming you mean for the CMS to essentially cancel a Translation Job that has already been sent to the Translation Provider but isn't apparently flagged as ready for retrieval...

To the best of my knowledge - and what I can see from the documentation (and the config files) this is not configurable out of the box.

Updated on correction from Lars - not able to cancel the Translation Job in the Tridion GUI

You are not able to manually cancel a job in the CMS GUI but you can cancel a job in the World Server workflow (other Translation Services do exist) and there's no specific setting shown in the configs I see for

• SDL Tridion 2013 SP1 HR1 or
• Web8 (8.1.1.)

I'm not sure what effect the PURGE may have on a job that has exceeded the time but I'd be surprised if this interfered with a job that wasn't marked as Cancelled or Complete, perhaps you can update your PURGE frequency to a day and let us know (assuming you are able to agree with the Translation provider to not translate your content in the interim).

Although I'll note a possible approach below, you should be cautious of the business / business process implications of semi-automating this activity without involving a discussion with the translation provider and/or business.

• what if the large / complex (assuming Manual) translation is complete with the exception of a relatively short update that was planned imminently...
  • someone is going to be unhappy (not least the business when the provider charges them for the translation all the same possibly)
• if you request to cancel the translation (and hte request is made automatically) - who are the stakeholders that need to be informed (other than just the person going into World Server to hit cancel)
  • and how (this could change depending on the specific site or type of content that's being translated/cancelled

Possible Contender

Updated on correction from Lars - not able to cancel the Translation Job in the Tridion GUI or via the Tridion API

• Have a simple polling server
• this can check iterate through the jobs in the queue
• it can retrieve the state of the job and if it's been sent for translation
• the date it was sent can be interrogated
• compared to today
• compared to an agreed timespan
  • perhaps metadata on the bundle - in Web8 this can be sent with the Translation content so could be used in the World Server workflow to trigger escalations
• removed if required (i.e. send an email to whoever manages the workflow/translation jobs in the World Server GUI)
  • as hinted above - it may be more appropriate to simply escalate the fact the translation is not happening in the time expected