How to Reuse Previously Translated Files for PerfectMatch for Existing Project

If you have already created a project which has project files that are closely related files that have been translated previously, for example previous versions of the same file, and you have the bilingual files that were produced at that time, PerfectMatch can extract translations from the bilingual files and apply them to the new project files.

Step 1: Display the Batch Processing Wizard

Click Projects view > Home tab > Tasks group > Batch Tasks > Apply PerfectMatch.
Click Next on the Batch Tasks page of the Batch Processing wizard.
On the Files page, select the project files to which you want to apply PerfectMatch and click Next.

Step 2: Select the Previously Translated Bilingual Files

Selecting Files when you have Matching File Names

If the files in your new project have the same file names and path location within the project as the files in the previous project, you can automatically search a folder for the previous files. This ensures that the bilingual files are automatically paired with the new project file.

Select the target language to which you want to add the previously translated bilingual files, click Add and then select Matching Previous Documents from Folder.
Browse to the required location, select the folder and click OK. The Batch Processing wizard searches the folder and all sub-folders for matching previous bilingual files automatically and adds these to your project.

The previously translated bilingual files are displayed in the Previous Document column next to the corresponding project file.

NOTE

Even though you have selected a specific target language, the wizard will still add any matching bilingual files that it finds for the other target languages in your folder.
If the wizard finds other SDL XLIFF files that do not match the file names in your project, it displays an error message stating the number of files it has been unable to add out of the number of files found.

Selecting Files when you have Different File Names

If the file names in your new project are different to the file names in the previous project, select the files using the following method:

Select the target language to which you want to add previous bilingual files.
Select the file under the Project File column for which you want to add a previous bilingual file, click Add and then select Specific Previous Document.
Browse to the required location, select the previous bilingual file and click Open.

The previous translated bilingual files is displayed in the Previous Document column next to the corresponding project file.

Step 3: Specify the Origin and Status to Use

Decide what translation origin and status to use for the translations that are extracted from the previously translated files and applied to the new project files. For more information about these options and the scenarios in which you would use them, see Why Use PerfectMatch?.

Under Translation transfer options, select one of the following options:

Apply PerfectMatch and lock: Use this option If you are applying PerfectMatch from a project that has fully reviewed translations. This will mark all approved translations as PerfectMatch with a status of Signed Off.
Use the original translation origin and status: Use this option if you want to use the same origin, translation status, score and target comments as the original document.

Step 4: Apply PerfectMatch

Click Finish to Apply PerfectMatch.
When the task is completed, click Close to exit the Batch Processing wizard.