Translating in PIM with Trados or MemoQ
Thread poster: Els Peleman
Els Peleman
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Belgium
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French to Flemish
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Nov 17, 2020

Hello,

A customer asks me to implement the translation of the technical product sheets directly in the Production Information Management System (PIM). I read that should be possible when they activate in the BPM Translation Manager the BMP Translation Connector. That way you can export XML-files which can be translated in Trados.

Do I understand this right? Has anyone have experience with it? What are the difficulties? And is this XML-file also compatible with MemoQ? <
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Hello,

A customer asks me to implement the translation of the technical product sheets directly in the Production Information Management System (PIM). I read that should be possible when they activate in the BPM Translation Manager the BMP Translation Connector. That way you can export XML-files which can be translated in Trados.

Do I understand this right? Has anyone have experience with it? What are the difficulties? And is this XML-file also compatible with MemoQ?

Best regards
Els Peleman
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Natalie
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Poland
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English to Russian
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Hi Els Nov 17, 2020

I have recently translated a rather large website in a similar system, CMS (= content management system).
Working in it was easy, however there was no possibility of exporting/importing anything, and, moreover, I needed to copy the text to Word in order to know the word count. I copied also the translation into the 2nd column, and this way I could use my translation for repeated parts of the text as there was no other way to do this. I strongly suspect that this will be the case with PIM a
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I have recently translated a rather large website in a similar system, CMS (= content management system).
Working in it was easy, however there was no possibility of exporting/importing anything, and, moreover, I needed to copy the text to Word in order to know the word count. I copied also the translation into the 2nd column, and this way I could use my translation for repeated parts of the text as there was no other way to do this. I strongly suspect that this will be the case with PIM as well.
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