SDK and documentation for Trados 2007

Question

Hi all, 
 I'd like to automate some tasks using the old Trados version, I mean 2007. 
 I've seen there are plenty of documentation from 2009 on, but I don't find anything related to the previous version and its SDK. Anybody with the same problem? 
 Thanks in advance.

Paul · Answer

Hi Jesús, the old Trados wasn't as open as Studio and you required a special developer license to be able to access it's SDK/API. This was also a chargeable license.... not free as it all is today! 
 
However, Trados 2007 isn't supported anymore anyway so I think the only way you'll get what you want here is to contact your account manager and discuss with them whether there is any possibility to get a license like this today. Gut feeling would be no as this is so old now we even have account managers who won't even know what Trados 2007 was! But worth asking the question... you never know. 
 
Regards

Paul · Answer

Unknown said: Someone at SDL should finally realize that not everybody on this planet is a developer with Visual Studio, but still would like to get some Trados Studio stuff automated. 
 Might be true, but I'm pretty sure the current situation is more powerful and more widely used already. You can always use Windows Powershell, this is pretty simple for automation.

Paul · Answer

Unknown said: Regarding PowerShell - have YOU personally tried to write some simple T2007 automation in VBScript and compare it with TS201x effort needed for the same automation using PowerShell?
 ...... 
 So I strongly suggest everybody to get realistic and get out of their offices and talk to real common users... 
 Hi Evzen, 
 I get your point, it's unfortunate you can't see it from our persepective as the current solution is lot more successful than the old COM approach ever was. However, maybe as Patrik suggested it may be that adding a simple way to call the sort of things you understand might be useful for some users. I don't think we need to get out more though as I can assure you I know of more development work carried out by our users since we provided this capability than we ever had before. 
 On your question to me... well I'm not clever enough to develop anything and don't know anything about the COM stuff, but when the powershell toolkit came out I did have a go and even showed quite a few people how to get started. 
 Regards 
 Paul

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SDK and documentation for Trados 2007