Per the release announcement I posted to the Community earlier today, I can confirm the option of selecting files/languages during project download is now live.  It would great to hear feedback from our customers as to how this impacts on the way you are working with ManTra!

Dear Community,

I am pleased to confirm this idea will be included in the next update of SDL Managed Translation, scheduled for release later in October.

In addition to allowing users to specify which languages they want to download, we will also allow users to select which files for each language they want to download.

Cheers,

Ian

Hello Everyone,

I wanted to provide an update on this suggestion, which I acknowledge is long overdue.

I am currently working with the UX team on the final designs for a UI refresh in ManTra, planned before the end of 2017. Although existing users won't notice too significant a difference from the current interface, every page in the product will be affected, so the effort involved is significant. I am planning to share some of the new designs via the Community over the next few weeks, but if anyone is interested in taking a look at these in the meantime, please contact me directly.

Let me now explain why this UX initiative has an impact on the functionality discussed in this idea. We have effectively imposed a UI 'feature freeze' until the new designs have been moved into Production. We don't want to introduce new functionality based on the current designs, only to then replicate this in the new UI once this has been implemented.

The download-by-language feature is something we intend to deliver, once the UI refresh has been released. Again, I will share some visual mock-ups of this feature a little closer to the time.

Cheers,

Ian

Hi Ian,

just wanted to follow up and see how this request can be moved forward? Has your team had a chance to review how this can be implemented?

Thanks,

Jacqueline

Hello everybody:

I share Tim's concerns about downloading translated files multiple times, and file size is just one of my concerns.

In TMS, I can download single/multiple languages as they become available. When the language(s) are submitted after download, they are no longer available for another download. This is the sort of functionality I would expect in ManTra, too, for the reasons listed below.

- We cannot wait until the full language set is available for download, i.e. download only once, when the last languages are available. For most projects, we download and process languages as they become available and will need this flexibility in the future, too.

- The increasing file size for downloads which include languages no longer required (as they were already downloaded) is an issue. To download one of our typical projects with 31 languages and 50 Mbytes per language can (and will) take forever. After each new download we would have to check the file just downloaded and deleted the unnecessary files we already downloaded (several times) and process only the new languages. We don't have the resources for this and this is not efficient.

- I don’t want to download the same language multiple times not knowing if the files I initially downloaded are identical to the ones I downloaded again (maybe multiple times). Even if I know that the files are the same, I would feel uneasy.

Having the option of downloading all files or downloading an individual language (and then maybe set it to complete) for me is very high on the priority list.

A special hello to everybody I had the pleasure of meeting during the recent Technical Summit in Amsterdam.

Enjoy the rest of summer,

Thanks,

Beatrix