Once you have created and populated your Content Groups, you then create a target-language document with a translation workflow.
By definition, translation jobs have both a source language and a target language. In order to leverage tools such as a translation memory (TM), we need both of these languages to be available in the workflow.
Given that an Adobe® InDesign® document is monolingual, we will need both our original source-language document and a separate target-language document. The target-language document is named a Version.
This is an excerpt from the workshop: Create a Translation Workflow.
Assign Workflow Actions
You may also assign Workflow Actions to your workflow steps. Actions execute automatically at their designated point in your workflow.
- Open the Workflow Actions dialog by double-clicking any Drop actions here field.
- Drag and drop a desired action to the point in the workflow where it should execute.
The three step options are:
- Start: Actions here execute as soon as this step becomes active. For the Edit step, this is when the workflow starts. For a Review step, it is when content is committed from the previous step.
- Running: Actions here execute as soon as an assigned user opens this job for the first time. It does not execute on each subsequent opening of the job.
- Finished: Actions here execute as soon as all active content at this step has been dealt with. This can mean committing to the next step, or rejecting to a previous step.
NOTE: Pausing and resuming a workflow can cause actions to re-execute.
NOTE: The Commit Translations action should only ever be assigned to the Completion step of the workflow, so that it will only be executed on completion of the entire workflow.
- Double-click an assigned action to open its Action Editor dialog. Here you can customise the action to your requirements.
NOTE: More detailed information about the Start, Running, and Finished action areas can be found in the User Interface Description.