Understand translation job queuing

When you create a translation job, you must enter the required information about the job, and the select to either start to Translate or Queue the job. If you want to create a translation job but you're not ready to send it yet, you can put the job on hold. Queuing a job starts the translation process by creating the target language folders and files. Queuing also locks the files.

You must have permission to be a translation coordinator or be an administrator before you can send a component to translation or manage a translation job.

You can queue a translation job for all types of Translation Projects.

Create a queued translation job

When you click Queue, Inspire prepares the job.

Inspire creates a folder for each language you select. The folder's location is based on the component you select for translation. For example:
- If you select a component in the following folder and want to translate it to French: My Components / Chapter 1
- Then Inspire creates a sub folder here: My Components / Chapter 1 / fr-FR
Inspire creates a copy of the component you want translated and puts it into the new language folder. A new copy, also known as the target translation component, is created for each language you selected.
- For example, the My Components / Chapter 1 / fr-FR folder now has a copy of the Introduction component you selected: My Components / Chapter 1 / fr-FR / introduction_fr-FR.xml
  Inspire may set the Reading property when creating target components for translation.
  Inspire sets the Reading property in these cases:
  - If it doesn't exist yet
  - Only if the language Reading property is rtl (Right-to-Left)
  - For example: <concept id="concept_guid" xml:lang="ar-Ar" dir="rtl">
  - Inspire makes no changes if the language Reading property is ltr (Left-to-Right)
Inspire locks the source files being sent to translation. By default, source components are locked, however, you may see something different from the default behavior.
An administrator can allow files that are in translation to be unlocked:
- Set the optional feature TranslationLockSourceDisabled to true. Allow files to remain unlocked during translation
- Add users or roles to the can_unlock_system module property to allow files to be unlocked while in translation. Control who can unlock system locks

In the Translations module, on the Translation Management screen, the State is set to Queued Submission.

Check the status of a translation job

Before you submit a queued job, you can update the following job properties:

On the Details tab: Name (of the job), Description, and (Translation) Coordinator
On the Languages tab: Cancel (a language)
On the Components tab: Cancel (a component translation)
On the Integration tab: nothing
On the Reference only tab: nothing

Update a queued translation job

To send a queued job to translation, you must Submit it.

Submit a queued translation job