Akeneo is a Product Information Management (PIM) software that centralizes product and marketing data for use across multiple channels.

Smartling’s Akeneo Connector helps users communicate with their global audience by automatically syncing product information from Akeneo to Smartling, allowing you to authorize this content for translation from within the Smartling platform. Translations are automatically sent back to Akeneo once complete.

Smartling’s Akeneo Connector currently ingests the following file types from Akeneo:

Tip: Dynamic Visual Context is automatically supported. This is not a preview of the content as seen in Akeneo, but rather a pseudo-context of the copy.

Smartling’s Akeneo Connector does not ingest the following content types:

Once you have connected your Akeneo account, you will find Akeneo content in the Akeneo tab in your Smartling project.

The File List will include the following columns:

Please note that the available columns may vary depending on the content type. Not all columns listed above are available for every content type.

Click the information icon beside the file name, to access the Content Details page. Here, you can see further information about that file, including the translation status for each language. From here, you can also Request Translations or Export Translations for that specific file.

Choose between Attributes, Categories, Product, Product models, and Reference entities.

When Product is the selected content type, you can further refine your search by Product ID.

When Products or Product models are the selected content type, you can filter by categories.

Select the Include Subcategories checkbox to include asset sub categories.

If selected, you must also select the same toggle in Akeneo to return results in Smartling.

Find Products and Product models content by its family.

Look for Products that are enabled or disabled in Akeneo.

When Attributes is the selected content type, you can filter the assets list by code. It is possible to enter multiple values in the code field, separated by a comma.

Locate files modified in Akeneo within a specific time period by defining a last modified date range.

Locate files created in Akeneo within a specific time period by defining a last created date range.

Search for Akeneo Products and Product models content by its product ID.

Choose to search by product ID by partial or exact match:

Please note that search and filtering options vary by content type. Not all content types support the same options, and available options may change based on your selections.

Completed: Translations were successfully delivered from Smartling to Akeneo.

Failed: The file submission failed, or the translation delivery failed. A number of reasons can result in a failed status, but some of the most common are due to invalid regex causing placeholder issues in the file.

In Progress: The file has been successfully sent to Smartling from Akeneo, and the translation process has commenced but is not yet completed. If there is a case where translations are complete, but a network issue occurs, the translations will remain in progress until the Akeneo Connector delivers the translations to Akeneo on a successful retry.

Draft: The file is in the process of being sent for a new translation request. For example, if changes were made to the source content and your Akeneo Connector is configured to send the new content automatically for translation. The file could be sitting in submission queue or sitting in Awaiting Authorization

Not Translated: The file has never been submitted for translation.

Filter by the dropdown list of target languages configured in Smartling for the Akeneo project.