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How do I post a question in the "Studio Delevopers Q & A" forum?

Dieter Mustermann — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 16:16:05 GMT

Dear Community,

I have a question about the Trados API that I would like to post in the "Studio Delevopers Q & A" forum. However, I don't see a way to do this as there is no "+ New" button in the top right corner.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Best regards,
Dieter

Developer License

Jon Lee — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 06:40:24 GMT

Hi there.

This is a basic question, but just to clarify, is it necessary to obtain a developer license in order to build a third party plugin?

If so, is the license free or is there a fee?

The plug-in would be for Trados Studio 2019 Professional and would be for internal use only.

Best regards,

Jon

Cannot find SDL Trados SDK download link.

Ari Krohn Berle — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 17:11:35 GMT

Hi all,

I can't find the SDL Trados SDK download link. "https://developers.rws.com/studio-api-docs/articles/gettingstarted/setting_up_a_developer_machine.html" links me to the developer hub but the link doesn't work. I need the SDK for Visual Studio to build a plugin –Where can I download the latest Trados SDK?

Thank you in advance,

Ari Krohn Berle

Creating a new file-based translation memory form an existing translation memory via the API?

Daniel García Magariños — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 18:33:33 GMT

Hiya,

I have a bunch of file-based translation memories with customized language resource settings (segmentation rules, custom date and time formats, etc.).

I would like to create new empty file-based translation memories based on each of those existing translation memories.

In Studio, I would just open each of the translation memories and use the ·"New translation memory from".

As I have quite a few, I would rather automate the process.

I was looking at the SDK and I could not find any method create a TM based on an existing TM, using the var tm = new FileBasedTranslationMemory(....)

It seems as if one would have to open the existing TM, loop through the required settings to read them and then create new blank TM and provide the settings read from the other TM as parameters.

Isn't there a more straightforward approach? Something like "CreateTMbasedOnAnotherTM (newTMpath, OldTMPath) or similar. Just something to clone a TM easily.

I guess I could automatically make a copy of those TMs and automatically delete all translation units but there is bug in file-based in which TUs are not really deleted and the file size remains large even after deleting all TUs.

Thanks!

Daniel

SDL Trados plugin development

Nadia Kuzheeva — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 09:06:55 GMT

Hello to all,

We are an IT company and wish to develop a plugin for Trados Studio. I have two questions :

Once the plugin is developed, should it be approved by SDL for being used by our freelance translators around the world who have Studio ?
If we develop it with 2019 SDK, will the plugin be compatible with Studio 2017 and 2021 ? If not, what needs to be done to upgrade the plugin to the future versions of Trados ?

Thank you so much for your help. Have a very nice day !

Nadia

Developping a Plugin for Trados

Dominique Marty Senet — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 08:59:07 GMT

We are IT company and would like to develop a plugin for Trados Studio 2019. I have two questions :

- once the plugin is done, can we send it to all our freelance translators around the world who are using Trados ? will they have problems with installing and using it ? does the plugin have to be approved by SDL ?

- if the plugin is developed for Studio 2019, will we be able to use it in previous or later versions of Trados ? If not, is it complicated to upgrade out plugin in order for it to be compatible with future Trados versions ?

Thank you very much for your help.

Submit SDL plugin

Norbert Grabowski — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 05:50:58 GMT

Hello,

I wrote an SDL plugin for SDL Studio and I want to submit it to the AppStore. I did everything I needed, I think. I filled in an icon, description, support and uploaded the necessary documents, such as manual and screenshot. The only thing missing is the plugin itself (LookUp4Trados.sdlplugin). If I upload this, I get an error message: File type not allowed. Do I have to do something with it beforehand?

Norbert

Getting developer licence for Juremy.com lookup integration

Robin Palotai — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 07:40:26 GMT

Hi guys,

I would like to implement a Trados Studio plugin for our online legal concordance search service Juremy.com.

I would be glad if you were so kind and provided a developer licence to me for this purpose. It was mentioned in an other thread here that you could do if there was an official request. If that's needed, please point me to an email address to which I should sent that request.

Thank you, Robin

Implementing Plugin for Google Cloud Translation API V3

Danny Campbell — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 01:57:15 GMT

Hello,

I've been trying to implement a machine translation plugin that uses Google Cloud Translation's AutoML models.

Google's tutorials on how to use it all involved the used of the Google.Cloud.Translate.V3 C# library to request a translation, but using it for a Trados Studio plugin resulted in the following error:

Could not load file or assembly 'Google.Cloud.Translate.V3, Version=1.0.0.0. Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=185c282632e132a0' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

Which I assume means that the library isn't supported by Trados Stuio.

So I'm wondering if there is another way to implement the method without using Google's library.

Where do .sdlplugin artifacts generate?

Tony Diaz — Fri, 08 May 2020 02:05:01 GMT

When attempting to build a project, even one based on the 2019 templates, I don't ever seen any .sdlplugin output within the compiled resource files. We're simply trying to rebuild and update an existing plugin, but I tried creating a new project based on a template and I don't ever see the files, I'm I missing something?

Any chance for a developer's license for SDL Trados Studio?

Kate Lageza — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:05:31 GMT

I'm a localization engineer and would like to develop a plugin for SDL Trados Studio. Unfortunately, I've just lost my job in the wave of COVID-19 redundancies and, hence, access to the product. Any chance you can give me a license? - purely for programming purposes. My plugin has to do with DITA format.

Up to date getting started with SDK?

Former Member — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 15:32:04 GMT

Is there any webinar recording on getting started with Studio 2019 and SDK? I only found one for the 2017, which - quite frankly - wasn't very helpful as the current templates are different, it was mainly about updating existing VS projects to make them compile without errors, and there aren't any sample projects provided with the SDK any more. I found the SDL Github repository, but I would highly appreciate any recent recordings on starting from scratch or based on one of the sample projects. Any help? Thanks!

Cheers,

Agenor

The Translation Provider ‘blah blah blah’ could not be opened and has been disabled

Rob Cole — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 22:17:23 GMT

Hi,

I am working on developing a plugin to offer our Machine Translation services to SDL Trados Studio users. To build plugin, I started with SDL Translation Provider project template.

I implemented few functions of classes implanting ITranslationProviderWinFormsUI, ITranslationProvider Interfaces. Somehow, with the help of DeepL and ETS plugins developed by SDL Community, I successfully deployed my plugin and shown a GUI to input Api Key. But after that, SDL Studio gives following error:

“The Translation Provider ‘blah blah blah’ could not be opened and has been disabled.”

Afterwards, plugin gets added but remains disabled.

The DeepL plugin is also giving same error but it remains enabled after adding till the time of selecting files for translation.

I must say that there is very little help on how to start developing a plugin. There should be step by step guide including detailed explanation of events especially when an event will be triggered.

Please help me to resolve this issue.

Thanks

Change developer contact information after plugin publication?

Michael Kobayashi — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 08:50:31 GMT

Hello everyone,

I am a new Trados plugin developer, and published my first plugin just a few hours ago. I am developing plugins in order to increase the visibility of my translation company, and I was going to include the company website and email address along with the plugin in the SDL Appstore, but I totally forgot to do it!

Here is a screenshot of my (current) boring, plain-vanilla information screen on the Appstore:

I'd like to change my name (Michael Kobayashi) to the company name and the email address to my company email address. Anybody know how to do that?

P.S. -- I also heard that all developers need a valid license for the product for which they are developing, however my app seems to have been accepted and published even though my SDL Account is not linked with the copy of Trados Studio 2017 I am using. Has the policy changed? Do developers still need valid product licenses in order to publish?

Thank you for your help in advance.

New plugin development: where to download SDL Studio 2017?

Former Member — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 13:28:28 GMT

Hello community,

We are considering a development of a new Machine Translation plugin for SDL studio. It's our first experience with plugin development with SDL so please forgive me for any trivial question I may ask.

We would like developing our plugin starting with Studio 2017 for two reasons: resources out there refer to this version, so we would like to start with a consolidated experience and, most important, we would start with a version that has more users in order to extend the support once we have a much clearer view on how to properly build a plugin. The problem is that we cannot find the download link anywhere now that 2019 is out.

Can you please point me to the right direction?

Further more, is there a "developer" version of SDL Studio that we developers can use to create and maintain our plugin? Something like a free, limited version just for devs. There is usually a 30-days trial, but I think it's pretty hard to complete the plugin in this lifespan (moreover because we do not have any experience with that), and it would be a problem to develop updates and bugfixes anyways.

What is the standard way to proceed?

Thanks to all for your help, it's much appreciated!

Calucation of x-Context property values

Toby — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 22:57:30 GMT

Dear all,

How are the context IDs that appear in TMX exports as <prop type="x-Context">numeric value, numeric value</prop> calculated?

(TuContext.LeftSource and TuContext.LeftTarget)

Thanks for your help.

Error: The language resource file could not be located

Toby — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 21:46:57 GMT

Dear all,

This is a follow-up to the question asked here: https://community.sdl.com/developers-more/developers/language-developers/f/61/t/14441

I wonder if there is an alternative to putting my app in the Trados installation folder?

What's meant by the "language resource file" exactly? Can I remedy the error by copying any files over to my app's folder?

Thanks a lot for your help!

Question on how to proceed - editing sdlxliff files when creating a project with SDK

Enrico Rosso — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 12:18:15 GMT

Hello,

I wrote a console application in visual studio c# that creates a project based on few parameters.

It's mostly similar/taken from the example in the project automation sdk documentation.

I need, after copying to target language the sdlxliff files, to process them by emptying the non-locked segments.

What would be the best (lightweight, easier) way to implement this, considering I'm in the process of creating a new project?

Looking up in this community i found some ways like:

- create a batch task

- use filetypes

- use core api and create a processor for sdlxliff files (i'm not sure this exists anymore, since the post was very very old).

- manually edit the sdlxliff files as xml (I'd really avoid this, doesn't seems proper or safe to me in case of spec changes).

I hope to get a hint from the experienced developers here. Thank you very much!

An error occurred when insert a placeholder in Segment in Batch Task context.

Bowin Zhang — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 13:16:49 GMT

Hello everyone,

I followed this article How to insert a placeholder in Segment in Batch Task context

I got a error when I finished inserting a placeholder in the batch task, it shows that the

document is damaged because the tag with this ID lacks tag information.

Is there anyone could help me to resolve this problem?

Thanks.

A question about tags information when I use Terminology Providers API

Bowin Zhang — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 08:34:42 GMT

Hello everyone,

I'm developing another plugin for my company with Terminology Providers API.

As we can see in the picture, my plugin received translationUnit contains segments, but tags were replaced to this, like <1 id=735></1>, <2 id=736></2>.

Could you tell me how to recognize what tags represent? Or let me know how to change tag to its origin format.

Thanks. I'm always online and waiting your reply.

A question about editing target text throw a plugin

Bowin Zhang — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 13:08:45 GMT

Hello everyone,

I'm a Trados Studio plugin developer.

I have facing a problem that I want to edit the target text automatically throw my plugin but I don't find the reference API to enable that function.

Is there anyone knows how to develop this plugin?

I'm waiting for your reply.

Where are the sample projects installed?

Michael Tobin — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 08:42:24 GMT

Hello all!

This is more basic than basic, but I just downloaded the SDK v4.2 (I use Trados 2015) and ran the installer.

After a little mucking around, I got the templates to show up in Visual Studio Community 2017.

But nowhere can I find the sample projects! And nowhere does it say where they are supposed to be installed.

Did my installation go wrong? Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

Michael

understanding sdlxliff files

Pascal Zotto — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 14:36:59 GMT

Hi,

I would like to programm an online tool (maybe as offline app later on) in order to automatically alter existing SDLXLIFF and xliff files (and maybe also for other translation file types).

From what I understood it is not possible to create new sdlxliff files without using Trados, right?

Another question I have is about the tag <internal-file ...> within sdlxliff files: what is all this "garbage" about?

I guess it's encrypted or compressed information about how Trados should handle the file, but can I alter the rest of the file e.g. by adding (sub)segments or other information without having to change this part? Or is it not possible outside of Trados as this part would also need to be changed during that process?

Are there other things I need to pay attention to?

regards,

Pascal

Developer version of sdl trados studio 2017

Frederic Vancr — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 17:44:08 GMT

I would like to know if there is a developers version of SDL studio 2017 which would allow me to work for more than 30 days.
Maybe a version where only very small termbases can be created (100 terms)

TIA,

Frederic

Create SDLXliff files with Java

Jef Verelst — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 10:50:50 GMT

As a developer for a Java program, we would like to be able to automatically create SDLXliff files from an XLIFF (inculding a TMX).

Are there any API's available for Java or is there a detailed specification of the SDLXliff format available?

Thank you in advance.