Before using the Smartling Contentful Connector, you will need to make a couple of minor configuration changes to your Contentful account. Below are the steps to enable languages for translation and flag content to be sent to Smartling for translation.
Create a Smartling Role in your Contentful Organization
Create a dedicated user role for Smartling within your Contentful organization and grant this role appropriate permissions as outlined in our setting up guide.
Enable Languages
- Log in to your Contentful account.
- Click Space Settings > Locales.
- Click Add Locale and select the new locale.
- Click Save.
For more information about customizing your localization preferences, read Contentful documentation.
Flag Content for Translation
Now that languages have been enabled in your Contentful account, you will need to signal to Smartling the content that should (or should not) be translated. This is done by editing a Field in Contentful and enabling/flagging the content. Doing this will then signal, to Smartling, the content that needs to be ingested once the Contentful Connector is set up.
To enable/flag localization of fields in Contentful:
- Log in to your Contentful account.
- Select the Content model menu.
- Click the content type.
- Click the Settings link for each content type you wish to enable.
- Click Enable localization of this field then click Save.
Your Contentful account is now ready to be connected to Smartling.