How to Create a Project

Projects can be created from any view in SDL Trados Studio. New translations projects are created using the New Project wizard. Click here for details about what you need to do before you start a project.

NOTE	For more detailed instructions on any of the steps below, refer to the additional topics in the How to Create a Project section, on the Contents list.

Step 1: Creating a Project

To start the wizard, click File > New > New Project from the Ribbon or click New Project on the Home tab on the Welcome screen. The New Project wizard is displayed.

Step 2: Specifying Project Type

Specify if you want to base your project on a template or a previous project on the Project Type page:

Create a project based on a project template: The Default template is provided with SDL Trados Studio and contains the default settings specified in the Options dialog box.
Create a project based on a previous project: The settings and resources selected in the previous project are copied to the new project. In addition, 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, translations are extracted from the previous project files and transferred to the new project files when PerfectMatch is applied. Additional PerfectMatch options can be specified on the SDL PerfectMatch page in Step 7.

Click Next.

Step 3: Entering Basic Project Details Publishing to GroupShare

Enter basic project details on the Project Details page: Project Name, Description, Location, Due Date and Customer.
To share your project online with other team members, select Publish project on GroupShare (Project Server) and specify the server information. This option is only available if you have SDL GroupShare.
To allow team members for this project to edit content in source segments, select the Allow source editing for supported file types check box. See About Source Segment Text Corrections for more information.
Click Next.

Step 4: Specifying Project Languages

Specify your source language (the language from which you are translating) and the target languages (the languages into which you are translating) on the Project Languages page.

NOTE

The list of languages in the Available box includes all languages that are supported by SDL Trados Studio . However, you must make sure that the languages you select are also supported by your system.
You can double-click a language in the Available pane to move it to the Selected pane and vice-versa.

Click Next.

Step 5: Selecting Project Files

Select your project files on the Project Files page.
Define the following settings for your project files:

Change their usage (for translation, reference).
Merge files.
Specify file type settings.

Click Next.

Step 6: Selecting Translation Resources

Select your translation memories, automated translation servers and AutoSuggest dictionaries on the Translation Memory and Automated Translation page.
Select your MultiTerm termbases on the Termbases page.
Specify your translation memory settings:

Search Settings
Filters
Penalties
Custom Field Values
Language Resource Templates

Click Next.

Step 7: Reusing Translations from Previously Translated Files in PerfectMatch

If closely related files 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. You can select these files on the SDL PerfectMatch page.
Select the translation origin and status to use for the transferred translations. Choose if you want them to display as PerfectMatch translations or if they should retain their original translation origin and status.
Click Next.

Step 8: Processing Files

Select the preparation steps (tasks) to be performed on the files of the newly created project on the Project Preparation page.
Click Next.
Specify what settings are applied when the tasks selected are performed on the Batch Processing page.
Click Next.

Step 9: Preparing Project

Review your selections on the Project Summary page.
When you have finished selecting the settings you want to prepare the project, click Finish to create the project. The Preparing Project page is displayed whilst your project is being created. Progress bars indicate what task the process has reached. Once a task is complete:

To see errors or reports based on the task, select the task and click Task Results. The Task Results dialog box is displayed:
If the task completed with errors, this iconis displayed beside the task.
If the task completed successfully, this icon is displayed beside the task.

Step 10: Creating or Editing Project Templates

When all of the tasks have been completed on the Preparing Project page and the project has been created, the Project Template settings are displayed. Specify if you want to save the project settings for future use in a template by:

Creating a new template
Editing the template on which you based the project.
Not saving the settings to a template.

Click Close to exit the New Project wizard. This button is not active until the project is created. If a project was not created due to errors in the tasks, this button remains inactive. Click Back to change the settings and restart the creating process.