Scoping folders or assets

Use scoping to determine how many words there are in a particular folder or asset and how much the translation will cost, based on selected scoping configurations, target locales, TM, machine translation configuration (if uploaded and configured), and the cost model associated with the project's scoping configuration.

Before you begin

To scope folders or assets, you need to have at least one cost model (Management > Linguistic Tool Setup > Cost Model Setup) and one scoping configuration (Management > Linguistic Tool Setup > Scoping Configurations) configured.

Procedure

  1. In WorldServer, do one of the following:
    • Go to Explorer, select the folder or the asset that you want to scope, and then select Project > Scope..
    • On the Home page of the Classic interface, create a project by selecting Upload Files and Create Project under Useful Links, and then, after uploading the files, select Get Scoping and Estimates.
  2. In the Scope dialog box, specify the scoping configuration, the target locales, and, for each locale, a TM and a machine translation configuration.
  3. Select Scope.
    WorldServer performs the initial scoping and displays the results in a table. The table shows the number of words in each translation memory match category. If the scoping configuration has a cost model associated with it, you can select the cost model and get an estimated cost of the translation, based on the selected cost model.
  4. Optional: Download the cost model as a .csv file by selecting Download as CSV file and save the file to your computer.
  5. Select OK.