How can I initiate a custom Translation Provider when the Editor is open?

Question

I have code to add a machine translation Translation Provider, and a button to run that code that appears in the ribbon in the project list view, the file list view, and the Editor. It runs correctly when the projects list or files list is the current view, but when the Editor is open, the GetLanguageDirection method is not being called. How can I incorporate the information that method provides into the project, or somehow unlock the project settings so that my Translation Provider is immediately used?

Andrea-Melinda Ghisa · Answer

Hi Dan Higinbotham , 
 You don't neet to create a separate action on the ribbon in order to run a Custom Translation provider. Please take a look at the following code sample for DeepL Translation Provider . 
 
 If you use the Translation Provider Template your custom plugin will be available in Studio in project settings in the Translation Memory and Automated Translation. 
 
 From there you can configure any settings that your app requires and run your custom app. When you are in Editor you can use your provider either interactively navigate in the segments or you can use the "Pre-Translate" batch task to translate all the file using your provider.

Kind regards, 
 Andrea Ghisa

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