It’s important to maintain your company’s tone of voice. With this in mind, we created 'glossaries'—your dictionary for providing pre-defined definitions for your translation jobs.
It's essential to know that we can exclude elements from translations; however, this mainly focuses on words, sentences, and even URLs to ensure they have a predefined outcome. This can be beneficial for your SEO and your internal link strategy.
Step 0 - Navigating glossaries and potentially adding glossaries
Glossariess can be added onto exisiting and new translating jobs. You can find your existing or create new glossaries at: Apps > Translaitons > Glossaries, or by simpy going to https://app.elovate.io/glossaries.
Once you are aat your gloassy overview you can add your glossary list.
Step 1 - Adding a new glossary
Simply press on: "Add new glossary" to add a new list. Once this is pressed a slide over will show.
Give your list a clear and descriptive name. I highly recommend naming your glossary based on the entity and store codes, for example: 'NL → ENG | Products.' This approach will help you easily assign and manage your glossary lists. In some cases, it’s best to create separate glossaries for each element (products, categories, attributes, pages, and blocks).
Once you’ve given your job a meaningful name, either upload a file or fill in the 'Glossary Items' fields.
Important note: Ensure your file includes a header row when uploading. The first row is automatically skipped during processing.
The left field contains the text from the source language, and the right field is the translated value in the target language. For example, if you're translating from Dutch (NL) to English (ENG), and you want 'feest' to become 'party,' enter 'feest' in the left field and 'party' in the right. You can add as many rows as you wish. When using the 'upload' feature, ensure your file has two columns: one for the text to translate and the other for the translated value. No headers are required.
Step 2 - Adding a glossary to a existing list
To add a glossary to a translation job, go to the translation job you’ve created. If you don’t have one yet, click 'Add New Translation Job.' If a job already exists, simply select it.
In both cases, after completing steps 1 and 2, you will see step 3: 'Select Glossaries' in the settings. Here, you can choose from your available glossaries."
It's also possible to edit and create glossary from this location.
Step 3 - Updating a job with glossarys
Once you've successfully added your preferred glossary, click 'Save Translation' at the bottom of the translation job to apply the change.
When you press save, you will be presented with two options:
Option 1: No, use changes for new items.
This option will NOT update or apply the glossary to existing entities but will apply it to new products or items if using continuous translations.
Option 2: Yes, translate all items.
This option will re-run the translation job and apply the glossary to all items where matches are found."