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This article explains how to translate a documentation file for Microsoft Dynamics products and solutions.
In Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services (LCS), on the DTS dashboard, select Add to create a new translation request.
You can open the DTS dashboard either from the LCS home page or from within a project. For more information, see Accessing DTS.
Enter the required information for the request.
Field | Description |
---|---|
Request name | Enter a name for the request. |
File type | Select Documentation. |
Product name | Select a product name. If you accessed DTS from within an LCS project, this field is automatically filled in and is read-only. |
Product version | Select a product version. If you accessed DTS from within a LCS project, this field shows the default product version information from the project. However, you can select a different version. |
Translation source language, Translation target language | Select the set of source and target languages to translate from and to. If your business requires that multiple target languages be translated for the same source language, you can select all the target languages in one request. Make sure that you select each target language by using the checkbox next to the language's name. This approach helps you save time when you must submit multiple translation requests. It also lets you track the translation status of all the target languages in one request. Language names that are shown in bold are General Availability (GA) languages for Microsoft Dynamics products. Therefore, product-specific machine translation (MT) models are available in those languages, and the MT model is trained on the terminology for Microsoft Dynamics. For non-GA languages, the MT model uses the general domain training. |
Select Create.
Note
To take advantage of the product-specific model that is trained on Microsoft Dynamics linguistic assets, you must select English – United States as either the source language or the target language. Here is an example.
Translation source language | Translation target language | MT model that is used |
---|---|---|
English – United States | Japanese | Product-specific trained MT model |
Japanese | English – United States | Product-specific trained MT model |
German | Japanese | Generic MT model |
Select the plus sign (+) in each section to open the File upload page.
Currently, only files in Microsoft Word (.docx) format are accepted for translation. Create a zip file that includes all the .docx files in the source language that you want to translate from. You can upload only one zip file. Note that DTS doesn't change the source files that you upload. The source files are only used to create files in the corresponding target languages you requested.
If you have a TM in Translation Memory eXchange (TMX) format from a previous DTS request, and/or if you have a XLIFF TM from UI file translation, you can attach those TMs so that they can be recycled in the new document that you're submitting. Create a zip file that includes all the TM files. You can upload only one zip file. If you created the translation request for multiple target languages, you must select which target language the TM file is for.
With the translation memory file you are providing, you have an option to decide whether you want to create a custom MT system trained with it. This option may take longer time to complete the request. You must choose Yes or No to be able to continue with the TM file upload.
After you've finished uploading file, select Submit to start the translation process.
After you submit the request, a new request ID is created on the DTS dashboard. If you submitted the request with multiple target languages, you will see each target language status is displayed in a separate line with the same request ID. Selecting a line on the dashboard will extend the dashboard window to the right to show the request summary information.
To view the request status, select a request ID link on the dashboard. The Request status tab shows the list of source files that you uploaded, together with a summary of the request information.
Note that the processing time depends on the number of requests that are in the DTS queue and the word count in the source files that you submit.
When processing of your translation request is completed, you receive an email notification from DTS. You can then view the result on the Request output tab of the request details page. If your request was submitted for multiple target languages, there may be a difference between languages when each language process is done. Expand each language name to see the status.
For documentation translation requests, three types of output file are available after the translation process is completed:
DTS provides the translation review file in .docx format. You can download the file from the Request output tab of the request details page and open it in Word. The file provides a convenient table view, as shown in the following illustration. Therefore, you can easily compare the text in the source and target languages side by side. After you've finished reviewing the file, you must save it and upload it back to DTS to generate the updated .docx file output in the original formatting style that you submitted.
When you edit the .docx review file, note of the following guidelines:
When you've finished reviewing and editing a .docx review file, you must regenerate the output file in the source document style. You can then apply the latest translations (that is, your edited versions of the translations) to the documentation files in the target language.
You can repeat the regeneration process as many times as you require.
For more information about the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Translation Service (DTS), see Dynamics 365 Translation Service overview. For information about how to translate a user interface (UI) file, see Translate user interface files.
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