Project creation
The core action flow covered by our API is the creation of a new translation project, which involves files management and some previous settings that need to be tuned from LanguageWire Platform by a Project Manager.
The creation flow
When you send a /ProjectCreation request to the API, it simply transforms the model and sends a request to create the project in the Platform and then handles the response back.
You can create your project in two ways:
- Manual creation - specifying all required parameters.
- Using a predefined template.
This is the overall project creation flow with status transitions and actions involved:
Project title
When creating your translation project, make sure you add a title that can be easily recognised.
- As for the file names, the project title can only contain characters from ISO/IEC 8859-1 standard.
- It should have between 5 and 350 characters.
Project status
In every stage of the project, the system indicates different status so you can easily track the progression of your translations via polling requests.
| Status | Description | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Draft | The project has been created but not yet sent for translation to the Platform | Make sure your draft includes all the needed information and then send a /do-start or /do-quote request to send it to the Platform. |
| Active | The project has been sent and our experts are working on your content. | Wait until the work is finished. |
| Cancelled | Your project is not progressing as has been cancelled. | If your project has been automatically cancelled it might be due to a technical issue. Contact your Project Manager as soon as possible. |
| Finished | Your files and documents are ready to be downloaded. | Download your target files. |
Cancelling my project
You can cancel your project at any time before the project starts. Once the project has started, cancellation can only be requested via our Project Managers.
If our experts have already started to work on your project when requesting a cancellation, this might involve extra charges.
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Want to know more about project creation? Head to create project endpoint for API reference and examples.
Polling
If you are applying a Raw Machine Translation service to your translation project, then you can run a poll request frequently (every few minutes) as this is an automatic translation based on our Artificial Intelligence technology, with no human intervention.
However, if your project needs other services that involve our linguists, then our recommendation is running a poll request every hour.