How To Review Translations
This is a guide for reviewers. It walks you through the translation review process in PTC.
1. Become a Reviewer
To become a reviewer, you have to be invited to the project by the project admin.
You’ll receive an email with the invitation. When you do, follow the Accept the invitation link in the email and confirm your consent to become a reviewer.
You do not have to create an account in PTC. You will access the project translations via a direct link from the next email with all the instructions.
2. Get Email with Instructions
You might not get review instructions right away – the project may not be ready for review yet.
Once it is, you will get another email, containing all the necessary details to access the software and detailed review instructions.
Follow the link in the email to get started.
3. Follow Review Instructions
When you follow the link from the instructions email, the PTC project review page opens. It displays the steps you need to complete.
Get started with the first step. The step page lists the specific actions you need to perform and interface elements you need to review.
Follow the instructions. Typically, it involves using the software as a regular user would.
Check for any translation problems, either in the text itself or with text length, like strings that are too long for their allocated space.
4. Fix Incorrect Translations
If you discover some incorrectly translated text, click There are translations that I need to update or check and enter the problem text in the search bar below the instructions.
PTC displays all matching text strings so you can make the necessary edits.
When you edit a string, the Edit Text dialogue opens. It may vary, depending on the string.
PTC may have some suggestions to improve the translation automatically or ask for some context (e.g. if a certain word in the text is a name). In that case, provide any context you can and follow the prompts.
PTC adds confirmed names to the project glossary, which is available on the Glossary tab.
If the translation does not improve after actions suggested by PTC, or if PTC has no suggestions, you can edit it manually.
Check and complete your review:
- After activities, visit My updated texts tab to see changes.
- Review all changes carefully.
- If satisfied, complete the step.
5. Repeat for All Remaining Steps
After completing a step, the review page opens again. Proceed to the next step, and keep following the instructions through all the steps in the review process.
6. Finalize the Review
Once you complete all the steps, the Submit button appears on the main review page. Click this button to send your edits to the project.
PTC will then email the project admin to let them know you’ve completed the review.
That’s all. If there are new texts for you to review, you’ll get new instructions by email.
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