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Map files are used when applying PerfectMatch to your project files. The map files allow you to map files in the new project to the translated bilingual files in the previous project. This is useful if you have a large amount of files to which you want to apply PerfectMatch and the file names have changed in the new project. Using map files avoids having to add each previous bilingual file manually for every project file in the new project.
For information on the other methods you can use to map the translated bilingual files to the new project files, see Select the Previously Translated Bilingual Files.
Map files are tab delimited text files (TXT). A separate map file is required for each target language in the project. Each line in the file is made up of two components.
The path relative to the new project folder and the file name of the file in the new project.
For example, if you created the folder structure shown below on the Project Files page of the New Project wizard, the path would be the following:
Samples Folder A\SampleFileAV1.docx
If you did not create a folder structure under the project, then you would just put the file name:
SampleFileAV1.docx
The absolute path and file name of the bilingual translated file from the previous project:
C:\Documents and Settings\jsmith\My Documents\Studio 2011\Projects\Project 7\de-DE\SampleFileAV2.docx.sdlxliff
Sample Folder A\SampleFileAV1.docx C:\Documents and Settings\jsmith\My Documents\Studio 2011\Projects\Project 7\de-DE\SampleFileAV2.docx.sdlxliff Sample Folder B\SampleFileBV1.docx C:\Documents and Settings\jsmith\My Documents\Studio 2011\Projects\Project 7\de-DE\de-DE\SampleFileBV2.docx.sdlxliff Sample Folder C\SampleFileCV1.docx C:\Documents and Settings\jsmith\My Documents\Studio 2011\Projects\Project 7\de-DE\SampleFileCV2.docx.sdlxliff |
Map files can be created in any application that can produce tab delimited files, such as Microsoft Excel or another text editor. You can create the content of the files manually (by typing or copy/pasting the file paths) or you may have another application or script that can automatically generate the content.
Add Files for PerfectMatch Using a Map File
Topic: Published: 27-Jun-2012