Configure pivot language localization

If your translation vendor cannot perform a direct translation from your source language to your target language and instead needs to translate into an intermediate language before proceeding to your target language, you can configure the intermediate language as a pivot language.

About this task

To localize from a pivot language, you must configure pivot language localization in IXIA CCMS. When you start using pivot language localization, you will have one or more source languages in the Localization cycle in addition to the one in the Authoring cycle with each producing one or more target languages.

Restriction: Pivot language localization is only available with the sequential localization model and only in CCMS Desktop.

Procedure

In the TEXTML Administration perspective, connect to your server.
Check out and open the /system/conf/pivotLanguages.xml in a text editor.
Define the source and target languages using the template in the pivotLanguages.xml file. Use the language codes defined in the languages.xml file.
For example, if you were translating from English to French, Japanese, and German and you want to use French as a pivot language for Arabic, you would configure the following in the pivotLanguages.xml file:
```
<pivotlanguages>
	<sourcelanguage name="en-us">
		<targetlanguage>fr-fr</targetlanguage>
		<targetlanguage>ja-jp</targetlanguage>
		<targetlanguage>de-de</targetlanguage>
	</sourcelanguage>
	<sourcelanguage name="fr-fr">
		<targetlanguage>ar-ma</targetlanguage>
	</sourcelanguage>
</pivotlanguages>
```
Save, close, and check in the file.
Test your implementation. If it is not behaving as expected, verify the access rights are configured correctly for each object and status in each condition.
Inform users of the changes.
The changes are automatically applied once users close and then reopen their CCMS Desktop. Users can also apply the changes without restarting their CCMS Desktop by clicking IXIA CCMS > Synchronize Configuration. Additionally, refresh IXIA CCMS Web so that users see the change reflected there.