Connecting to a translation service

Experience Workspace includes a Translate app that works out-of-the-box. The default connector uses Google Translate and requires no additional setup.

Other translation services are also available. You can configure a supported connector, submit a pull request with your own connector, or request a connector from Adobe.

Use a supported connector

Experience Workspace provides connectors to multiple services in addition to the built-in Google connector:

• Lionbridge
• Smartling
• Trados

These connectors require site-level configuration and service credentials. Please see the documents Translation config options and Translation config samples.

Connector requests

Please contact your Adobe representative to request a new connector.

Implement your own connector

A custom translation connector must implement:

• isConnected() to determine whether the user is authenticated to the service
• connect() to authenticate or connect to the service
• sendAllLanguages() to send content for translation
• getStatusAll() to retrieve the status of submitted translation tasks
• saveItems() to retrieve translated content and save it to Experience Workspace

A connector can also implement cancelTranslation() to let authors cancel an in-progress translation job. If the function is omitted, the cancel action is not shown.

This is the minimum API that Experience Workspace requires for a translation service. See the existing connectors for working implementations. The sample connector is a starting point for a custom integration.