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Batch Task API

Romulus Crisan (former member)

We are planing to develop a batch task API and I would like to discuss what features would you like the API to provide. 

Romulus Crisan | Translation Productivity Development Manager | SDL | (twitter) @cromica_82 | (blog) http://www.romuluscrisan.com/

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  • Hello Romulus,
    that is good news. Here my first Brainstorming : )
    I would like to get a possibility
    - to insert the custom batch-tasks in Studio,
    - to be able to perform them alone or in sequences.
    - to start such custom Batch Tasks through the project API
    - to save eventual settings in the sdlproj file.
    - to use templates with custom batch tasks
    - to start programs which perform actions (read, write, add, replace,...) on the files in the project: source files (pre-processing), sdlxliff (QS), cleaned up files (post-processing), reference files
    - to start programs which are independant from Studio
    - to restart certain batch tasks for example the Analyse after a source file has been corrected or added.

    Thank you for asking
    Sébastien

  • Looking forward to this. Now I'll do some wild brainstorming:

    • Post Finalization or Target File Generation copy certain files to predefined folders
    • Batch export TMs as a backup
    • Define a special subset of QA checks and run them as a batch task
    • Spellcheck project: i.e. open all files and run spellchecker and create report.

    But I'm not too sure if this is the answer you are really expecting.

    Best regards,

    Robert
  • in reply to Robert Bevington

    I'd like to add some too:

    • predefine source file location and include this in a batch task for creating projects
    • support the addition of your own tasks, whatever they are, and make available through the batch task menu

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  • my 2 cents:
    - being able to perform some operations on sdlxliff files like changing some TU metadata or loookup for specific words and adding informations on tu
    - being able to declare if my custom task can work in cooperation with other tasks (like pretranslate -> analyze) or if they require some other task/condition to be performed/fulfilled before being used
    - being able to export analyze data or other kind of information via xml file or even better: make a http request/soap-rest call
    - being able to write a report so that Trados can see it between other project reports.