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Hi,
I’ve noticed some odd behaviour with Language Cloud as regards uploading of translated content to its servers and would like to request clarifications as to whether it is intended or not. The behaviour may be summed up as follows: when I open a translated SDLXLIFF and add the “SDL Language Cloud” provider, my approved translations are automatically uploaded to LC servers and are showed in the “Translation Results” window as “ATs”.
Out of pure interest, I ran some tests to observe how the provider would behave in different scenarios. The conditions and results of these tests are set out below:
1. Conditions: SDL Language Cloud provider added in Project Settings, “Enabled” and “Lookup” ticked.
Actions: I translated and approved a segment, then reactivated this translated segment.
Result: my translation was automatically uploaded to LC servers and appeared in the “Translation Results” window.
2. Conditions: SDL Language Cloud provider added in Project Settings, however “Enabled” is unticked.
Actions: I translated and approved a segment, then reactivated this translated segment.
Result: my translation was automatically uploaded to LC servers and appeared in the “Translation Results” window.
3. Conditions: SDL Language Cloud provider NOT added in Project Settings.
Actions: I translated and approved a segment, then reactivated this translated segment and added the SDL Language Cloud provider in Project Settings.
Result: my translation was automatically uploaded to LC servers and appeared in the “Translation Results” window.
The above results raise the following questions:
1. In scenario 2, why was my translation uploaded to LC servers despite the fact that the “Enabled” field was unticked?
2. In scenario 3, when exactly was my translation uploaded to LC servers? I didn’t have the LC translation provider enabled when I approved the segment, so I guess the uploading must have taken place right after I added the translation provider to the project and the provider saw that the currently activated segment was approved? Are approved segments automatically uploaded to LC servers without any user input (i.e. without the actual confirmation of the segment)?
3. General question: since most of the time I’m working with confidential documents, I’m rather worried about the fact that in scenario 2 and, especially, scenario 3 my work results are uploaded to an external server without any prompts. Is there any way at all to disable uploading of my translated content when working with LC?
