Create new online project (from template)

You can get the source documents from your computer, or from a content source. By default, memoQ offers to import local documents:

Click Add documents to pick up the documents you need to translate. If you need to work with an entire folder and its subfolders, click Add folder structure instead, then find the folder.

Once this is done, click Next.

memoQ will read the files, and detect their language: that will be the default source language of the project. memoQ will also indicate if it cannot read a document or another.

Can't customize document import here: memoQ imports documents with the settings that are in the project template. If a document was not imported correctly, you can reimport it after the project is created. When you reimport a document, you can change the import settings. On the other hand, you can customize the document import settings in a template, but you need to do it before you start creating the project.

To connect your project to a content source, click the Content connector radio button first. The wizard page will change as follows:

Type the address of the content source in the Content provider address box, and if the content source requires an authentication ID (practically, a password), type or paste it in the Authentication ID box. Then click Connect.

memoQ will list the available content sources in the Connections list. Click the content source you wish to use, and click Next.

memoQ will fetch the documents from the content source, and detect their language.

Content connector languages are stronger than template languages: When you create a template-based project using a connection, memoQ will use the source and target languages in the connection, and not the ones in the template. When you create a content-connected project from a template, memoQ will ignore the source and target languages that were set up in the template.

Template filter configurations are stronger than content connector filter configurations: When you use this template to create a content-connected project, memoQ will use the filter configurations in the template, and not the ones in the content source. When you create a content-connected project from a template, memoQ will ignore the filter configurations that were set up in the content connector.

If memoQ server is connected to a content management system (CMS), the CMS can send translation jobs. When there is a new job, memoQ server needs to create a new online project from it. You can create an online project from a CMS translation job here.

Creating an online project can be automatic: If the CMS dashboard has a workflow for the same connection and the language combination of the job, memoQ server will create the project automatically. You need to create the project manually only if there is no such workflow.

To create a project from a CMS translation job, click the CMS (Content Management System) radio button. The Connections list appears:

If you do not see the connection you need: Click Manage CMS connections. The Server Administrator opens, with the CMS Connections page. To learn more, see Help about the CMS Connections page of Server Administrator.

Select the connection that sends the translation job. Click Next.

The Select CMS Jobs page appears:

Find the job where the status is New, and check its check box. You can process part of the job. To do that, click the arrowhead at the beginning of the row, expanding the items inside. memoQ will expand the items, first the language pairs, then the documents for each language pair:

Normally, you would check the check box for the entire job (at the top), but you can pick and choose by checking the check boxes for individual language pairs or documents.

After you make your selection, click Next. The Project template information page appears. (Continue reading from the next section.)

1. Set the start date and the overall deadline for the project. Choose two dates in the Project start and in the Project deadline boxes.
2. memoQ can calculate the costs of the project. Your profile may contain several pricing strategies, which can be used for calculating the cost of translation or reviewing, and it can depend on the language pair, the vendor, and on keywords that are there in the description of the pricing strategy. You can use the keywords to categorize the pricing strategies, and on the Project information page, you can type keywords to choose the right pricing strategies.

   To view and change pricing strategies: Visit the Pricing strategies page of your Language Terminal profile.

3. Choose how memoQ should calculate the costs. Before the documents are translated, all you have is the analysis. Those numbers must be multiplied with the prices in the pricing strategies. However, after the documents are translated, you can use the post-translation analysis. The post-translation analysis tells you what matches have actually been used, rather than what matches could be used (that's what the analysis says). Normally, memoQ will use the post-translation analysis. If you need to use the analysis all along, click the Always Statistics radio button.
4. Choose how hours should be calculated. Sometimes reviewing is paid by the hour. (It happens in translation, too, but it is not as common.) To calculate the cost, memoQ must be able to count the hours. memoQ will calculate the hours from the word count, but participants can also log time in the project. Normally, memoQ allows everyone to do this. If you want to restrict this to in-house translators and reviewers, click the Allow logging for in-house vendors radio button. To prevent people from logging time at all, click the Don't allow logging radio button.

   Click Finish: memoQ will create the project, and open it in a new memoQ online project window.