Connecting to a Translation Service

Document Authoring comes with a Translate app working out-of-the-box. This app is powered by Google translate and can be used as-is as to localize pages.

There are also a variety of translation services available and you may want to connect your own to Document Authoring. You can submit a pull request with your connector, or you can request a new connector from Adobe.

Connector requests

Please reach out to your Adobe representative to request a new connector.

Implementing your own connector

To connect your own translation service, the following functions must be implemented:

• isConnected() to determine if the user is authenticated to the service
• connect() to connect to the service
• getItems() to retrieve translation items from the service
• sendAllLanguages() to send content for translation
• getStatusAll() to retrieve the status of sent translation tasks

This is the minimal API that Document Authoring requires to connect to any translation service. For a working example, check out the existing Smartling connector. Your connector will similarly need to implement all exported functions.