SYSTRANLinks is a solution that offers easy website localization. Once you have created a SYSTRANLinks account, visitors to
your website can translate the entire site to their preferred language with a single mouse click. In addition to on-demand Machine
Translation, SYSTRANLinks also provides the tools to edit and manage collaboratively all of the translated content. Setup is easy
and requires no IT intervention.
It is necessary to have valid credentials to use SYSTRANLinks.
To get valid SYSTRANLinks credentials, click on « subscribe » from the login page, choose the offer that best suits your needs
and follow the steps to create your account.
Note that the Free edition of SYSTRANLinks doesn't contain all the feature described here.
More information about SYSTRANLinks offers is available here.
1. First steps in SYSTRANLinks
1.1 Add a first website
1.2 General Navigation
1 First steps in SYSTRANLinks
1.1 Add a first website
1.2 General Navigation
1.3 Menus overview
2 Website settings
2.1 Configuration
2.2 Translation Settings screen
2.3 Display Mode
2.4 URLs navigation scenarios
3 Manage content
3.1 Pages
3.1.1 General
3.1.2 Rules
3.2 Sentences
3.2.1 Sentence List
3.2.2 Sentence toolkit
3.2.3 Task creation starting point
3.3 Images & Links
4 Resources
4.1 User Dictionary
4.2 Translation Memory
5 Task management
5.1 Overview and general principles
5.2 Task creation
5.3 Tasks menu
6 Contributors
To start using SYSTRANLinks, just click on 'Add a website' from the homepage.
When prompted, enter required information to set up the website to translate:
Source domain: This is the website you want to be localized through SYSTRANLinks
Source Language
Tar get L ang uag e(s ): These are the languages you want to translate your site into
Default Content for Translated Website
Community feedback popup behavior: Define here what your visitors will see. You can hide SYSTRAN popup, or show a popup that will display source text to visitors
for a better understanding. Finally, you can enable your visitors to submit suggestions for better translations.
Default Language selector theme
Note that except from source URL and language, all settings can be tuned afterwards in the settings menus of SYSTRANLinks.
After first site creation, SYSTRANLinks configuration page for this website is entered, and SYSTRANLinks will start crawling your website.
To preview your translated website, click on 'Visitor Preview' or 'Browse & Edit' in the global toolbar. This will open a new window of your browser showing the translated
version of your website.
From the home page, you can enter a site or add a new one.
Once a site is entered, generic screen layout is as described below.
From the global toolbar, you can:
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1.3 Menus overview
Go back to the homepage or switch websites
Switch target language (for content related menus)
Access website in 'Visitor Preview' mode or 'Browse & Edit' Mode
The Visitor Preview mode lets you browse your translated website as if it will be shown to visitors, with currently published sentences and 'Community popup' activated. The
'Browse & Edit' mode lets you enter your website showing the latest version of your translations (even if not published) and lets you edit or validate any sentence in context.
The left Navigation menu is for the selected site only and lets you switch between different sections of SYSTRANLinks.
Once in a menu, particularly for list items (pages, sentences, images, UD, TM, Tasks, contributors), the generic layout is:
A filterable/sortable list to manage items
An action bar for performing action on selected items
Possibly a toolkit for rapid editing
The Dashboard shows at a glance the overall activity of your translated website:
Usage of SYSTRANLinks subscription by this website:
Page views
Custom domains
User Dictionary
Translation Memory
Translation review progress
Settings menus let you configure general settings:
Configuration
Check your website
Set up target languages and status (live or not) for each
Configure custom domains
Translation Settings
Define machine translation settings
Define review and publication workflow
Display Mode: Configure Language Selector display
Content menus are the place for reviewing and translating your website. Menu selections are:
Pages:
View all pages of your website and known by SYSTRANLinks. The status indicates whether the page has been crawled, or is in the 'To crawl' list of SYSTRANLinks
From here, it is possible to:
Set specific rules (such as Do Not Translate) for given pages or path
Preview translated page
Quickly retrieve all sentences of a given page
Perform mass actions on sentences of a page
Sentences:
This is the main place for reviewing and translating the website
It contains all sentences that have been crawled by SYSTRANLinks and their current translation
From here, you can:
Search particular sentences through filters
Edit a sentence and/or publish it
Select a set of sentence and create a translation task with it
Enter the view in context mode
Images & Links:
Retrieve here all non-textual elements that have been parsed by SYSTRANLinks, such as Images, files, or external links
From here, assign new links or exchange images for translated versions
Resources menus are the entry point for managing translation resources for both Machine Translation and human translators:
User dictionary
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2. Website settings
2.1 Configuration
2.2 Translation Settings screen
2.3 Display Mode
Translation Memories
Tas ks: This menu lets you manage and follow up tasks created from the sentence list.
Contributors: This menu lets you manage contributors you have invited (from here or from Tasks screen) into your website.
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The Configuration screen is for managing general configuration of international websites, concerning target languages and domains related subjects.
IMPORTANT: For the SYSTRANLinks version of the website to be publicly available, SYSTRAN must first verify that the user really owns the website. Click on Check and
follow the steps to confirm Verification Status.
To add a new language, just place the cursor in the Target Languages field and select it in the dropdown list. It will then be added in the configuration table.
Each language line has a 'Live status':
If ON: the language will be shown publicly (if the source website is verified) and appear in the language selector
If OFF: the language won't be shown publicly, but can still be edited and previewed from SYSTRANLinks as a logged user
IMPORTANT: International website will be publicly available if, and only if, the Source website is checked AND language live status is set to 'ON'. Otherwise, valid
SYSTRANLinks credentials will be requested.
For each language, it is possible to configure a "Custom Serving Domain", for your visitors to see your URL instead of SYSTRANLinks generated one. To do this, type your
URL and activate the 'Custom Serving Domain' toggle. This requires:
That you own the indicated domain
That you make changes to CNAME record in order for the site to be mapped (this is done in the DNS management page of the site where your domain is controlled
and/or has been bought)
For instance, for the French version of www.mysite.com, it is possible to set the custom serving URL to www.mysite.fr, to fr.mysite.com or even to
francais.mysite.com. Once changes are made on the DNS management page, a click on 'Check' in the DNS status column of SYSTRANLinks configuration page will
activate the configuration. Note that it is mandatory to set here a domain without sub-directories, so a URL such as www.mysite.com/fr/ won't be enabled in
SYSTRANLinks and will have to be managed through redirections outside SYSTRANLinks.
Important Note: all configuration changes must be confirmed by clicking the "Apply" button.
Default content for translated websites
Prior to receiving human review or translations, SYSTRANLinks can provide automated, on-demand translations for your website.
The setting "Default content for translated websites" lets visitors to your site translate content that has not yet been reviewed and validated.
You can choose the following settings:
Machine Translation
Source content
MT engine configuration table
This table is used to set up an MT provider for each language pair.
If available for the Language Pair, SYSTRAN is enabled by default and included in your subscription. You can choose to set up a connection with Microsoft Translator API or
Google Translate API account. In this case, a valid API Key must be provided.
SYSTRAN Pop-up and Feedback Settings
Visitors can see a pop-up on the translated version of your website when mousing over sentences.
Depending on this setting, visitors will only see source text for better understanding, or can also be allowed to send feedback and suggestions.
Sentences with suggestions will then appear in the Sentences menu of SYSTRANLinks, with the number of suggestions indicated in the 'Suggestion' column.
Edits Publishing Mode
Edited and reviewed sentences have a visibility status, which can be either Published or Not Published.
A sentence is visible on a translated website only when it is published. Whatever its validation status, this setting lets you control the publishing workflow in accordance with
your own internal procedures. Settings are as follows:
Continuous (as soon as a single sentence is validated, it is published)
At the completion of a task (all sentences of a task are published when the task is completed)
Manual (the website administrator will manually publish from the sentence menu)
This screen helps you configure the look and feel and behavior of the Language Selector.
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