Translation manager

Question

I want to know the flow for translating any content for the following: Global Content -- Lets say I have to translate it to German and French and have two content publications (Content German and Content French) How will the translation happens for a global content to French and German, will the component be localised in Content German and Content French publications? And if localised then next time when the change happens in Global Content how will the new changes flow to Content German and Content French because my component is already localised at these publications.

This ppt slide I have taken from the Translation deck provided by Tridion for Translation

Answer 1

When you configure the Tridion Translation Manager, you set up a source publication, and one or more target publications. The source publication contains components in the language you want to translate from (global content), the source publications contain the components in the languages you translate to (in your case, one publication for german, and one publication for french).

When you create a new component in your global content publication, you can choose to send it for translation. Here, you can define to which language(s) you wish to translate it to.

Then, there is a whole workflow of translating, reviewing, etc, which happens outside of the Tridion CMS, and finally, the translated content is sent back to tridion, where it is localized in the target publications.

When you edit a global component that is already translated before, you can re-send it for translation, and the localized target component will then be overwritten.

So, it is advised not to edit a translated component manually, as your manual changes will be overwritten.