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Using the content connector service, you can set up memoQ to watch a folder for documents to translate, and import all new documents that are placed in that folder.

This is useful if you work on a single larger translation project, and you receive updates to the source-language content from time to time. If you are using the content connector, you do not need to create a new project when a new batch of documents arrives, and you do not have to add the documents manually to the memoQ project.

You need to set up a content-connected project that points to the folder where all new and updated documents are placed. Whenever you open the project, memoQ checks that folder for changes, and imports all new or updated documents.

If you are receiving the new and updated documents in e-mail, you need to save the documents in the folder that memoQ is watching.

 
Creating a project that watches a folder on your computer

Here is how you can set up content-connected memoQ project to watch a folder for new and updated documents:

1.Download and install the memoQ content connector service on your computer. For instructions to install the content connector service, see the help pages for the memoQ content connector.

2.Start the memoQ content connector client, and set up a connection for the folder you want to watch. For more instructions, see the How-to page in the memoQ content connector help.

Important: Do not forget to note down the authorization ID that identifies the connection. You will need it when you set up the memoQ project to use that connection to watch the folder.

3.Start memoQ, and choose New Project on the Project ribbon tab (if you do not wish to create a local project from a template, use the arrow icon, then select a different project type that you wish to create). The New memoQ project wizard starts.

4.In the first page of the wizard, type a name for the project.

You do not need to choose languages: it is the content connection that controls the languages and the way documents are exported.

Check the Connect to a content source check box. Note that the Record version history for translation documents check box is also checked.

5.Click Next. The Content source wizard page appears.

6.In the Content provider address text box, use 'localhost'. If you installed the content connector service using the default settings, you can accept the address already in the text box.

7.In the Authentication ID text box, type or paste the authorization ID you noted down when you created the content connection in the memoQ content provider client. Click Connect.

8.The New memoQ project wizard lists the connections available at the specified address, and under the specified authorization code. Click the connection that corresponds to the folder you want to watch.

9.Check the Import initial content when the wizard completes check box.

10.Enter a polling frequency, and an email address of your client for word count notifications.

11.Check the Open project after creating it check box to open the project directly after it is being created, and then click Next.

12.On the next wizard pages, you can select translation memories and term bases for the project if it is a local  content connected project. If it is an online project, you can later on add the translation memories and term bases when the project was created. For more information on these, see the How-to page on creating projects.

13.Click Finish to create the project. If you checked the Import initial content when the wizard completes check box, memoQ connects to the content source immediately, and imports any documents it finds there. Once this is finished, memoQ displays the Project home tab with the Translations pane open.

Note: When you create a project by connecting to a content source, the new project is called a content-connected project.

 
Managing changes in the project

After you create the project, you can always check for changes in the content source: in the Translations pane in the online project window: click Get changes from content source.

You can simulate a Get changes operation in clicking the Test getting changes link. You will get a "What if" report. This way you get information about new, changed and deleted files in the content source. The Progress log will then contain messages on the new document(s) to be imported from the content source, the changed document(s) to be reimported from the content source and the document(s) being deleted from the content source.

In addition, memoQ checks the content source for changes each time you open the project, and imports new and updated documents.

For local projects, get new content or changed content in using the Content command on the Documents ribbon tab:

 
Delivering your translation

After you finish translating one or more documents in a content-connected project, follow the steps below in your checked out local copy:

1.On the Project home tab, click Translations.

2.In the Translations pane, select the documents you want to deliver, and click the Deliver/Return button on the Documents ribbon tab.

3.memoQ asks you to confirm if you want to send the selected documents only. Click Yes to continue.

Note: If you click No, memoQ will send all completed documents to the content source. A completed document has all segments confirmed.

Note: If you deliver to your customer in the online project window: click the Send translation to source link below the documents list of the Translations pane.

When you send translations to the content source, you do not need to pay attention to folders or export paths – this is already set up in the content source, and the content connector service knows where it should save the documents.

Note: You can also export the documents normally: click Export (dialog) below the document list to save the translation on your computer. If your customer requires a bilingual file or you work with a colleague not using memoQ, but should review your translations, you can also choose the Export bilingual command to export a bilingual file format. The Export (stored path) command is disabled in content-connected projects.