Pre-Production Testing

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Pre-Production Testing

After you complete the configuration, your Lionbridge Connector for Drupal TMGMT installation is ready for testing. Once you have installed TMGMT and configured the Connector, we recommend contacting Lionbridge Connector Support to obtain the endpoint and credentials for testing. For details, see How to Contact Lionbridge Connector Support. The testing environment enables you to test translations either using machine translation (MT) or by automatically replacing every character in submitted content with the letter x (pseudo-translation). This enables you to test that the Connector is communicating correctly between Drupal TMGMT and Lionbridge, and it ensures that all the content you want translated is correctly extracted and handled by Lionbridge services. You set up this environment as a separate provider.

To add the testing environment as a provider in Drupal TMGMT:

In Drupal, select Configuration > Regional and language > Translation Management Translators > Add Translator from the menu.

The Closed Add Translator page opens.

Enter the following information:

Note: An asterisk (*) indicates a required field.

Field | Description |

Label | Your name for the Lionbridge Connector in Drupal TMGMT. This is what is displayed to users who select a translator when sending out content for translation. |

Description | A description of the translator. |

Translator Settings - Auto accept finished translations | | Indicates whether to automatically accept all completed translations.

To automatically accept all translations without reviewing them first, select this check box.
To review translations before accepting them, clear this check box.
In the Translator plugin dropdown list, select Clay Tablet Connector. This is the Drupal TMGMT plug-in for Lionbridge translation services.

In the Clay Tablet Connector Plugin Settings section, enter the following information:

Field | Description |

Export to | Your content is always exported in XLIFF format, which is the standard XML-based format for exchanging localizable data between applications. |

XLIFF CDATA | | Select this check box to wrap the content in CData tags. This prevents the Connector from escaping special characters, and avoids the scenario of double-escaped characters. Note: If you select this check box, the Connector ignores the Extended XLIFF processing setting, described next.

Extended XLIFF processing | | Select this check box to further process content semantics and mask HTML tags instead of escaping them:

The Connector wraps the text in CDATA tags.
The Connector converts entity references for special characters, such as <, >, &, ‘, and “.
The Connector wraps other HTML elements, such as <img> tags, in <bpt> xliff tags, outside CDATA).

Note: The Connector ignores this setting if the XLIFF CDATA check box, described above, is selected.

Allow export-format overrides | Select this check box to enable users to override the export-format settings when sending out content items for translation. |

Use one export file for all items in job | Select this check box to export all content items to one file. Clear this check box to export content items to multiple files. |

Download method | | You can choose where to store exported files. Depending on your Drupal configuration, additional download methods and locations may be displayed in addition to Public local files served by the webserver. Recommendation: Use a secure location to prevent unauthorized access.

| Clay Tablet Settings

To obtain credentials for the Clay Tablet, create a Zendesk account at https://connectors.zendesk.com and create a support ticket. The Lionbridge Connector Support team will provision an account for you. For detailed instructions, see How to Contact Lionbridge Connector Support.

PO number | | Optional. Enter a valid purchase order number that you set up in Lionbridge Freeway.

Username | The username for accessing the Clay Tablet, which enables you to use the Connector to send Drupal content items to Lionbridge for translation. |

Password | The password for accessing the Clay Tablet, which enables you to use the Connector to send Drupal content items to Lionbridge for translation. |

Click Connect. The Connector sends the credentials (username and password) to the Clay Tablet. The Connector stores the returned token for future sessions.

Notes: The Connector does not save your username or password. You must click Connect, at least once, to generate the access token required to use the Connector.

Optional. In the next part of the page, you can specify the Transfer all files as zip setting. Select this check box to instruct the Connector to deliver all files for translation in a single .zip file.

Optional. Click Scheduled Tasks to expand this section. You can select the Receive translated jobs automatically check box to instruct the Connector to deliver all translated content automatically, as soon as it is ready.

Click Remote Languages Mappings to expand this section. You can update the default mapping between each language in Drupal TMGMT and the corresponding Lionbridge Freeway language code.

Each text box in this section has a label with the language name and code of each language set up in the Drupal TMGMT Languages page. (To open this page, select Configuration > Regional and language > Languages from the menu.)

For each language, select the Lionbridge Freeway language code corresponding to the Drupal language.
If you want to add another translator to support different Content API credentials or different translator configurations, repeat the steps above.
Click Save translator.

The Closed Translation Management Translators page opens, displaying the translator you just created.

If you want to add another provider to test different Content API credentials or different provider configurations, repeat the steps above.

We recommend sending only a few pages for translation in one language as an initial test. For detailed instructions, see Sending Content to Lionbridge. Once successful, you can send as many languages as required. If you have any concerns or questions, please contact Lionbridge Connector Support. For details, see How to Contact Lionbridge Connector Support.