Product Release: New SDL Connector for AEM 6.5 - February 2020

Dear Community,

We released a brand new connector solution for AEM 6.5. The previous SDL solutions (AEM 6.1-6.5) contine to be maintained and supported, and any updates will be provided under a seperate post.

This new release brings an entirely new user experience inside AEM, with many front-end and back-end features to support translation project creation and management.

Version AEM 6.5 - 1.2.0

Key features with this release are:

  • New, intuitive UI for project creation
    • Select multiple AEM pages
    • Support custom attributes
    • Multilingual job creation in SDL
    • Edit projects
  • New project synchronization
    • Detailed information of project status
    • Improved error prevention/handling to end user and admin
    • Automation for job archiving
    • Project multi-threading in AEM
  • New connector runs in parallel to old connector
    • no translation freeze required
    • Future updates install easily without complex uninstall processes
  • Configurable options:
    • Pre-fill Project name from page properties
    • Pre-fill cloud config from page properties
    • Pre-fill target languages from cloud config
    • Pre-fill target languages from previous selection

Create Project Wizard

Screenshot of Adobe Experience Manager's 'Create Project' interface with fields for Name, Description, Source Language, and Target Languages.

Translation Project Overview

Screenshot of Adobe Experience Manager's 'Translation Projects' dashboard displaying a list of projects with details such as ID, Name, Source, Target, and Status.

Translation Project Detail

Screenshot of Adobe Experience Manager's 'Translation Project Detail' page showing an overview of a specific project with sections for General, Target Languages, and Translation Jobs.

Note: the new solution supports SDL Managed Translation/TMS only and does not support SDL WorldServer.



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[edited by: RWS Community AI at 1:43 PM (GMT 0) on 14 Nov 2024]
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