Hi there Dave!

You could indeed do this with a Business Rule.

There is an out of the box action clause called "Intiate Project" that you can utilise this alongside the selector clause that looks for new files that get dropped into a location.

Here are the steps to set this up:

1. Management > Business Rule Linkage > Rules > ADD.

2. It will first ask you to name the Rule. Each rule will have to be linked to a single Source Locale so call it something like "English US Projects"

3. Next check the box on the Selector clause page "Asset Based - All New or Changed Assets under particular path since the rule was last executed":

You will then have to click the blue hyperlink "path" and select the watch folder where you will drop assets in to be translated. 

4. Click Next and enter the Condition Clause screen - Here you could limit what files are picked up in someway. Maybe you only want .doc files to be collected.

5. The Next screen is the Action clause and it here where the project details are defined. such as Project Name, Source Locale, Workgroup and Workflow.

6. Once selected click next and maybe add more exceptions if you want. If none, then move to the final screen.

7. This is the screen where you decide how and when your rule shall execute and thus check the watch folder for new files. There are two options.

Manually or on a recurring schedule.

For the Schedules there are 3 that come as standard - Hourly, Daily or Weekly. But you can add your own if you want here Management > Business Rule Linkage > Recurrences.

8. Once completed Save the rule and then you can test!

Hope that helps out and was the kind of solution you were looking for.

Thanks
Ryan

Hi Ryan,

I keep getting the error "No workflows were found." even though I was presented with a picklist of the workflows defined on the server.

Hi Dave,

Sorry I was so use to configuring a similar custom rule that I forgot how to properly configure the out of the box ones!

The missing pieces are:

In step 5 above don't choose your Source Locale instead pick all the Target Locales you want!

The next piece is how to define the Source Locale.

This is to be done on the AIS folder in the Explorer tab. 

Select your Watch folder and set the Locale AIS property explicitly for that folder to the Source Locale:

Remain in the Explorer, create a folder in AIS for each target locale you defined in the rule. Then again set the AIS locale value to that same target locale.

So you may have something like this is AIS:

Still within Explorer click the Linkage Editor button. 

This is where we will create a relationship with the source files and where there translations will be created and stored throughout the Project lifespan.

First select your Source Locale and then choose one of your Target locales in the dropdown.

Underneath these dropdowns you will set a mini AIS explorer, find your source locale folder and also find your target locale folder

Now using the mouse in a similar fashion to creating a transition in the workflow editor drag a link from the Source AIS folder to the Target AIS folder and your should see this:

Repeat this for all the target locale folders so your should have a link from the source to each of the targets.

then hit Save in the linkage editor and that should do it!

Apologies for missing these crucial steps!