Adobe Experience Manager Connector
Overview Key features Update notes Release notes Installation guide Package installation Deployment to AEMaaCS Connector configuration Custom content types Additional settings Custom language mapping Create user group Grant user permissions Share access to projects Auto replace hyperlinks User guide Create new language copy Update language copy Component translation Translation Project template Avilinga Translations console Manual translation retrieval Manual Launch promotion i18n dictionary translation Audit translations Share a project Maintenance Troubleshooting Remote Log service Solve issues

Overview

Avilinga Translation Connector for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) is the only fully customizable translation management plugin you need to manage all content type translations in AEM. Based on Adobe Translation Integration Framework (TIF) to support all out-of-the-box AEM features, but with improved Avilinga functionality. 

Avilinga integrates into AEM as Translation Cloud Service, allowing translation management of all AEM content types from within the AEM TouchUI environment.

Note: This documentation uses AEM 6.4 version to demonstrate basic steps of installation and use. Please contact us if you need specific documentation steps for other AEM versions.

Key features

  • Manage translation projects simply and effectively in a familiar environment.
  • Launch content into 120+ languages simultaneously with just a few clicks.
  • Benefit from full integration with Avilinga’s proprietary translation memory systems.
  • Manage translation project finances within client-defined cost-centres.
  • Share translation project access across multiple users and teams.
  • Review translated content directly in AEM or Avi5.
  • Full i18n support (including JSON and Sling).
  • Extended automation (auto-approve, auto-launch, auto-promote, auto-cleanup, and auto-retrieve).
  • Translations audit.
  • Customizable language mapping.
  • Direct integration of Avilinga project options (priority, workflow, cost center, quote approval).
  • Multiple project creation methods (AEM native, Avilinga template, Reference Panel, Avilinga Translations screen).
  • Extended machine translation support (including post-edit workflows).
  • Unique component translation features (limit the length of properties, update translation of specific component only, ignore updating of referenced assets).
  • Avilinga project overview screen.

Update notes

Version 2.1.17 of Avilinga Translation Connector offers the option of specifying the references of the components that Avilinga should retain during the translation update from the target page.

Follow these steps to update and configure the connector on your AEM instance:

  1. Follow the installation guide steps to install the updated Avilinga Translation Connector as provided to you by Avilinga.
  2. Use the Avilinga Translation Features tool to specify the references to be ignored during translation updates.

Release notes

March 5, 2024 - version 2.1.17

  • Adds an option to ignore references during translation update.
  • Offers a way to continue aborted project creation.
  • Adds support of Avilinga working hours.

August 23, 2023 - version 2.1.16

  • Adds max length setting for the component properties.
  • Adds Avilinga Translation Features interface.
  • Changes the logic of the component translation update feature to update non-translatable properties and translate the properties of the nested nodes of the components.
  • Allows to download partially completed projects.

June 9, 2023 - version 2.1.15

  • Adds projects History page.
  • Adds translations audit features.
  • Adds update component feature.
  • Allows to update translations from the Audit page.
  • Improves stability on fetching translation jobs.
  • Adds an option to auto-delete Launches after promotion

December 22, 2022 - version 2.1.14

  • Moves the selection of the delivery date to the end of the project creation to get exact possible dates.
  • Replaces the input fields for delivery times with cells for selection.
  • Adds an option to resume an aborted project upload.

November 22, 2022 - version 2.1.13

  • Adds Avilinga Rollout Config option and logic to use own configuration on Launch promote to solve issue with title and description translation update.

October 11, 2022 - version 2.1.12

  • Adds References panel Avilinga (Create) and Avilinga (Update) items for Experience Fragments.
  • Changes language names in Avilinga (Create) roll to languages names from Avilinga portal (to solve AEM 6.5 issue with missing country names of local languages, i.e. Portuguese (Brazil)).

August 05, 2022 - version 2.1.11

  • Adds support of case-insensitive language mapping for i18n dictionaries.
  • Allows selecting Delivery Date instead of Turnaround on creating translation projects.
  • Adds Avilinga Maintenance Tools.
  • Extends stability of fetching translation jobs.
  • Appends new columns and sorting capabilities into Avilinga Translation Projects table.
  • Allows auto replace hyperlinks in translated content.

November 09, 2021 – version 2.1.10

  • Adds support of translation sling i18n dictionary items without the sling:key property.
  • Provides a shared access to translation projects.
  • Improves performance while creating and retrieving translation projects.
  • Extends stability of the connection between Adobe Experience Manager and Avilinga servers while creating translation projects.
  • Allows double-click on language item to deselect all items while selecting languages for update in the References sidebar.

August 31, 2021 – version 2.1.9

  • Adds auto promoting Launch feature.

August 06, 2021 – version 2.1.8

  • Fixes an issue with shared access while auto fetching translation projects.
  • Makes Avilinga Translations console available to users of projects-users and projects-administrators user groups.
  • Allows using Avilinga Translation Connector in the multiple browser tabs.
  • Improves performance of retrieving projects.
  • Adds stability on creating translation projects in the case AEM create project workflow crushed.

June 28, 2021 – version 2.1.7

  • Adds multilingual user interface for Avilinga Translation Connector.

May 28, 2021 – version 2.1.6

  • Fixes an issue with stuck READY FOR REVIEW status of Update translation projects in Adobe Experience Manager 6.4.2 and prior.
  • Adds Avilinga Translations console on-scroll pagination.
  • Adds Avilinga Translations console new Fetch on Demand option.
  • Adds Avilinga Translations console archive project feature.
  • Allows set auto fetch time interval of translation projects.
  • Provides a way to retry creating project if some unexpected connection error was caused.

May 11, 2021 – version 2.1.5

  • Prevents concurrent run of creating translation jobs processes.

April 20, 2021 – version 2.1.4

  • Sets Select all subpages option default to off in the References sidebar.

April 19, 2021 – version 2.1.3

  •  Sets Force page timestamp option to affect subpages.

April 08, 2021 – version 2.1.2

  • Provides an option to not send reference files with translation data.
  • Adds Configuration screen improvements.

March 17, 2021 – version 2.1.1

  • Helps to identify project creator users on the Avilinga side.

February 28, 2021 – version 2.1.0

  • Adds the Avilinga Translations console for review translation projects.
  • Moves auto fetch feature to the Avilinga Translations console.
  • Adds own architecture to create i18n projects to improve i18n dictionaries translation.

November 20, 2020 – version 2.0.8

  • Allows to set connection timeout and the connection repeats with Avilinga servers.
  • Adds an option to force excluding i18n files in the translation project’s content pack.
  • Improves stability of canceling jobs on both Adobe Experience Manager and Avilinga sides.
  • Adds the modal dialog progress window while creating and running translation projects.
  • Handles errors while creating translation projects.
  • Replaces top notifications with dialogs after creating translation projects.
  • Adds validating of the source language.
  • Adds an option to automatically delete Adobe Experience Manager projects when all translation jobs are finished.

July 16, 2020 – version 2.0.7

  • Improves stability of accessing translation projects which have been canceled on the Avilinga side.
  • Improves stability of retrieving i18n projects when i18n dictionary items were changed during translation.
  • Allows logging of errors while creating translation projects.
  • Fixes a bug with creating translation projects for pages with non-ASCII characters.

May 25, 2020 – version 2.0.6

  • Removes duplicating source content in translation projects for pages that contain Content Fragments.
  • Makes Cost Center, Turnaround and Workflow fields compulsory on creating job from the References sidebar.
  • Makes Target Language field compulsory on manual job creation with the Avilinga Translation Project template.
  • Fixes a bug of creating translation projects by users with limited privileges in Adobe Experience Manager 6.4.2 and prior.

May 19, 2020 – version 2.0.5

  • Adds auto-retrieve and auto-approve projects feature.
  • Adds Avilinga Translation Project template for manual project creation.

May 12, 2020 – version 2.0.4

  • Improved stability on exceptions.
  • Adds the language groups for the language selector.
  • Adds response messages for connection attempts on the Configuration page.

April 9, 2020 – version 2.0.3

  • Adds the language mapping feature.

April 2, 2020 – version 2.0.2

  • Adds the auto-approve option and feature.

March 30, 2020 – version 2.0.1

  • Adds an option to send Anonymous log data to Avilinga to solve issues more efficiently.

March 26, 2020 – version 2.0

  • Completely new plugin version to support Adobe Experience Manager 6.4 TouchUI and native Adobe Experience Manager Translation Integration Framework features.