Using the Localization Dashboard
Prerequisite: You must be a member of the Administrators group or assigned to the XLIFF Admin role. See Also: Defining Roles
The Localization Dashboard provides an overview of translation activity occurring in Ektron. To access the Localization Dashboard from the Workarea, go to Settings > Localization > Dashboard.
The top of the screen lets you choose criteria. The lower section then displays content that meets the criteria. For example, you can find all US English content whose translation status is Ready for Translation, and resides in the /Clients folder. The lower section of the screen also lets you perform tasks on its content, such as print a list or change its Translation Status. See Also: Mark Translation Statuses
Selection Criteria
The following list explains the fields at the top of the screen. After you enter the selection criteria, click Filter Results to apply the new selections.
IMPORTANT: These criteria have an AND relationship. This means that, if you select several criteria, only content that satisfies all appears in the lower section of the screen.
- Lang/Dialect—Select the language whose content you want to view. To ignore this field, choose NULL. Alternatively, you can select all content not in the selected language. To do that, check the Does not Include box.
- Trans Status—Select the translation status of content you want to view. To disregard this criterion, choose (Any). See Also: Mark Translation Statuses
- Date Created—If desired, enter a range of content creation dates. If you do, only content created within those dates appears below.
- Last Modified—If desired, enter a range of content modification dates. If you do, only content edited within those dates appears below.
- ContentID—To see a particular content item, enter its ID number.
- Folder—If desired, select a folder whose content you want to view.
- Author—If desired, select the person who last edited the content you want to view.
- Title—If you know one or more words in the title of content that you want to view, enter them. You may enter one partial word and find all content whose title includes it.
Viewing Content on the Localization Dashboard
When you open the Localization Dashboard, the lower section displays all content in the Default Application Language.
NOTE: The pagination of the content list is controlled by the <add key="ek_PageSize"> element of your siteroot/web.config file.
On the lower section, you can:
- sort by any column in ascending or descending order by clicking on the column header
- view and work with any content item by clicking it, if you have permission to do so See Also: Managing Folder Permissions
- print current results by clicking Print
- export current results to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet by clicking Create Report
- edit the selected content's export languages
- change the content's Translation Status
- estimate the word count for one or more pieces of content
Editing the content's export language
Editing the Content's Export Languages
As described in Creating the .zip File, when exporting content for translation, you select one or more target languages.
You can add, edit, or remove target languages for content in the lower section of the Localization Dashboard using Action menu options.
The actions associated with the menu options are performed the next time the Create XLIFF Files for Translation button is clicked:
- Set Locales—View and modify locales into which selected content will be exported.
- Add Locales—Add locales into which selected content will be exported.
- Remove Locales—Remove locales into which selected content will be exported.
To change the target language assigned to content in the lower section of the Localization Dashboard:
- Check the box next to each content item that you want to modify. To check all items, check the box in the header row.
- Click Action > menu option. For example, Action > Set Locales.
- Select desired locales and click Save.
Changing the content's translation status
Changing the Content's Translation Status
To learn about Translation Status, see Mark Translation Statuses.
- Check the box next to each content item that you want to modify. To check all items, enable the check box in the header row.
- Click Action > Set Translation Status.
- Select the appropriate Translation Status and click Save.
