Server Administrator - CMS connections

memoQ server can receive translation jobs directly from content management systems (CMS) such as WordPress. Before a CMS system (such as a WordPress web site) can send translation jobs, you need to set up a connection for it in Server Administrator.

A CMS connection is a permission for a specific CMS system to sent translation jobs to memoQ server. Most of the time, a CMS system is a web server or a web site. Currently, memoQ server can accept translation jobs from WordPress web sites.

Before you set up a connection: Turn on the CMS API in the memoQ server deployment tool. To learn more: See the CMS API section of the Configure server topic from the memoQ server deployment tool help pages.

Requires memoQ project manager: You need the project manager edition of memoQ to manage a memoQ server or a memoQ cloud.

You need to be a project manager or an administrator: You may manage the server only if you are a member of the Project managers or Administrators group on the memoQ server. To change most settings, you must be member of the Administrators group.

How to get here

  1. At the very top of the memoQ window - in the Quick Access toolbarquick-access-default -, click the Server Administrator (cogwheel in a cloud) icon-server-administrator icon. The Server Administrator window opens, with the Connection pane.

    Or: On the Project ribbon, click Server Administrator.

  2. Type or choose the address of the memoQ TMS, and click the Select button.

    You may need to log in to the memoQ TMS: If you have not used the server before, the Log in to server window opens. Type your user name and password for that server, and click OK.

  3. Under Category, click CMS connections. The CMS connections pane appears.

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What can you do?

At the top of the window, there is a list of CMS connections. For each CMS system, there is a connection. Most of the time, a CMS system is a web server or a web site.

When you finish

After you set up a new connection, you need to configure the CMS system to use it. Before you do it, select the connection in the CMS connections page, and click Copy client configuration information to the Clipboard. Paste the details in a text document, and send it to the person who will configure the CMS system.

To return to memoQ: Click Close.

Or, choose another category to manage: