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I often get one Studio-project file for each file from one customer. I want them merged, but their customer ”wants it that way”. My question is: is there a way for me to merge these project files temporarily in order to facitilitate my work?

Elisabeth Lundberg-Karlsson

I often get one Studio-project file for each file from one customer. I want them merged, but their customer ”wants it that way”. My question is: is there a way for me to merge these project files temporarily in order to facitilitate my work?
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    Hi Elisabeth,

    Yes, you can create a new project based on one of the existing projects so it has all the same characteristics, TM etc., then you can add the sdlxliff files you have received to that project via Add files, then on the Project Preparation page, select 'Analyze only' which prevents any overwriting of content in the sdlxliffs. Then when you have created your new project, you can highlight them all in the File window, right-click and select 'Open for translation' or whichever process you are performing.
    When you've finished, you can copy and paste the final sdlxliff files back into their original project folders to replace the original files, ready for delivery (presumably as return packages via the individual project in Studio).

    Would you like fuller instructions on how to do this?
    All the best,
    Ali
  • 0 in reply to Alison Field
    Yes, I would like fuller instructions. You talk about the sdlxliff-files, but what I have got are sdlppx-files only.
  • 0 in reply to Elisabeth Lundberg-Karlsson
    Hi Elisabeth,

    An sdlppx file is a package that has to be opened with SDL Studio. Either from within Studio via 'Open package' or if you double-click on the package in Windows Explorer, it will open automatically with Studio (if it has already been opened a message will tell you so). As you click through the 2 stages involved, it will save the files to a project that is named the same as the project that your client created the sdlppx file from, and will appear in your 'Projects' list in Studio. This project will be saved in a place on your PC that depends on where you have saved projects to before. (By default in your Studio projects folder in, for example, "C:\Users\Name\Documents\Studio 2015\Projects" but if you know how to/have saved projects somewhere else before, it will learn and follow any pattern you have set up for saving projects).

    Once you have opened the project in Studio, you will find you can see, in the Projects list, what files are in the project for translation or for reference. If you know how to navigate to find the file(s) then you can do as I said in my post above and add them to a new project and repeat the process for files from any other project packages you open.
    If you don't know where those files are saved on your system, you can open one and save it to a place that you know you can find, via 'File>Advanced Save>Save Copy As'.
    Then repeat the whole process with any other sdlppx files you have and wish to open together in a new project for translation.

    I won't explain too much at once. Tell me what you'd like to know how to do and if there's anything I've explained that you don't understand...

    All the best,
    Ali
  • 0 in reply to Elisabeth Lundberg-Karlsson
    Elisabeth

    Based on the excellent suggestion of Ali, let me also point out that you may also simply extract the SDLXLIFF files from the package without the need to first import the package into Studio.
    The SDLPPX file is nothing else than a ZIP container, which means that you can make a copy of the SDLPPX file and change its extension to .ZIP. When you then open this ZIP container you will see several subfolders, one for the source and one for the target language. Navigate to the folder corresponding to the target language, it contains the bilingual SDLXLIFF files. You can take these files to add them to your new project.

    Walter
  • 0 in reply to Walter Blaser
    Hi both,
    Thanks for your excellent answers. Walter, when I have translated the bilingual sllxliff-files, do I just put them back into that folder again? Are these file the only ones that are changed in a project-file? What about if there is also a TM-file? And how do I create a returnpack-file?
  • 0 in reply to Elisabeth Lundberg-Karlsson

    Hi Elisabeth,

    I think in your case the advice from Ali is the one to take.  Walter is correct of course, but as you need to create a return package you should open all the packages in Studio so that you can create the return packages after you are finished.

    If your client is happy to accept the sdlxliff files on their own then Walters approach is probably faster... but you should check this first with your client.

    A return TM is not necessary because they have everything they need in the sdlxliff files.  A return package doesn't contain a TM eigther, only the sdlxliff files and some metadata helping them to ensure the files update the right project.

    Seems a funny way to work though.  Maybe your client could use some help on understanding how to create the project with all the file in one package.  That would save you both a lot of hassle.

    Regards

    Paul

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  • 0 in reply to Paul

    Unknown said:

    Seems a funny way to work though.  Maybe your client could use some help on understanding how to create the project with all the file in one package.  That would save you both a lot of hassle.

    This confirms again that there are many so-called "Project Managers" around who definitely need some basic training:-)

    Walter