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Knowledge Base / Administrators – Essential Workshops / Steps - Setting up a Translation Project

Section 5: Assigning content to a content group

Created on 05th October 2017 at 14:45 by Jamie O'Connell



This section shows you how to assign content to a content group.

The following content is an excerpt of a workshop. To see this lesson in context, please refer to "Workshop 1: How to create a Translation Job Project and work with 'Translation' Content Groups (Steps 15-19)".

NOTE:
A detailed description of any window used here can be found in the 'User Interface Description' sections.

Let's get started!

NOTE: Structure-to-Document connection

  1. 'Structure' panel : The 'Structure' panel shows you the content items in the document and their exact level within the document structure. In this case, the 'All Items' tab is chosen, meaning that every content item in the document is present in the structure view. Please remember that the 'Structure' panel will only contain the content of the selected content group/tab.
  2. Connection between the 'Structure Panel' and the 'Document Preview': When you select a piece of content (e.g. the text segment: "It's time for an orange fizz"), the content will be highlighted and there will be a shadow path connecting the content in the 'Structure' window to the same piece of content in the document preview.

NOTE:
If you double-click on an item in the 'Structure' panel, the document preview will jump to the correct spread and then highlight that piece of content.

Assigning content to a content group

Now you need to put content into your content group. There are two ways of doing this:

1. From the Document Preview

  • 'Select Tool': First, ensure that the 'Select Tool' is chosen.
  • Drag & Drop from 'Document Preview': You can now drag and drop elements directly from the document preview to a content group.

OR

2. From the Document Structure

  • Open 'Structure' panel : Click on the 'Structure' icon in the left-hand toolbar to open the 'Structure' window.
  • Drag & Drop from 'Document Structure' : You can now drag and drop the required segments directly from the document structure to a content group.

NOTE:
You can select multiple items in either the document preview or the document structure. You can then drag multiple items into a content group in one go.

NOTE:
To remove items from a content group, simply drag the content into the '
Unassigned Items' group/tab.

Move Content Warning

Move Content Warning

This warning will appear if you drag a frame, table, spread, etc. into a content group, along with some explicitly selected content (i.e. an ambiguous selection). Choose the desired answer and click 'OK'.

Check the box if you do not wish for this warning message to re-appear for this session.

NOTE:
The ambiguity is around whether you want the all of the frame's content (or the spread's content, or the table's content, etc.) to be moved, or just that portion of content which has been selected.

Dragging greater amounts of content

Dragging and dropping content items one by one (or even spread by spread) into content groups can be a time-consuming process. For this reason, there are ways to simplify/speed up the process:

  1. Drag to select desired segments: You can mark multiple text segments and/or images in the document preview by using the 'Select Tool' to drag a box around the items you want. Then you can drag and drop the whole selection into your content group. Or...
  2. Filter* the Document Structure panel: You can filter the content of the document structure panel to more easily find your required content. In our example here, we are filtering out everything except text segment content. You can select and drag and drop items from multiple spreads into a content group directly from the 'Structure' panel.
  3. Check contents of Content Group: Only that content which is in the selected content group is shown in the 'Structure' panel or 'active' in the preview.

NOTE:
If you want the majority of content items on a page/spread to be in a specific content group, simply drag the content from the entire page/spread into the content group tab. Then, for the few segments which don't belong in that group, simply drag these to the 'Unassigned Items' tab.

*For a detailed description of the available filter options please refer to the respective lessons in the 'User Interface Decription' section.

Warning message

Warning message

This warning will appear if you drag a frame, table, spread, etc. into a content group with no content explicitly selected. Check the box if you do not wish for this warning message to re-appear for this session.

Click 'OK' and continue working.

NOTE:
This warning reminds you that you are moving content from that frame into the content group, and not the frames themselves (because frames are not content).

Checking the 'Content Groups'

To get a quick overview of which content items are in which content group:

  1. Display 'All Items' : Select the 'All Items' tab. This tab displays all of the content items from the document, even if they belong to different content groups.
  2. 'Show Images', 'Show Segments' : Click the 'Show Segments' button and the 'Show Images' button. These buttons are located on the toolbar at the top of the spread.
  3. Content is highlighted: These buttons will highlight the document content in the colors of their respective content groups.
  4. Marked within 'Structure' window: In the 'Structure' panel, any piece of content that belongs to a content group will be marked according to the color of its respective group.
  5. Unassigned content: Any content items that have not been assigned to a content group will be highlighted in the default color for the workspace. These pieces of content can also be found under the 'Unassigned Items' tab

Example for 1io Recipe Inc.:
So far, we have created one content group and assigned the color blue to it. After switching on 'Show Segments' and 'Show Images'
(2), the color becomes visible (3)(4). Every segment that was assigned to the translation content group is now highlighted in blue within the document (3) and marked with a blue corner within the 'Structure' window (4). A small part in this spread is highlighted in the default 'green' color (5), which means it has not been assigned to any content group. In our case, we will take this content and assign it to the translation group.




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