New Smartling Experience - Beta

This article is for users participating in the beta release of the new Smartling experience. This document is intended to help you locate all of your existing features in the new experience. It also covers 3 new features only available in the new experience. Comprehensive updates to our documentation in the Help Center will be done at general availability.

Viewing the New Experience

If you are part of the closed beta, you will see the new experience upon login. You'll be able to try out the new experience while still having the opportunity to revert back to the classic view. No data will be lost if you switch between experiences during the beta release.

To switch between experiences, click on your profile icon in the upper right-hand corner of your screen and select Profile. On your profile page, toggle New Experience setting ON/OFF.

During your beta, we encourage you to submit any comments or questions through this form.

New Features

All features that were available to you in the classic experience, are available in the new experience. 3 new features are available only in the new experience. They are described below:

Strings View
The Strings View is designed to enable you to see all content across workflow states more easily compared to the List View in the classic experience. For example, "Excluded", "Authorized", and "Awaiting Authorization" states can be seen all at once - without having to toggle between different pages. With robust filter features, you can manage your content with fewer clicks. Learn more about the Strings View.
GDN Pages
This new view in GDN projects enables you to easily find the content you need to translate, review, publish, or exclude at a page level. Content is presented in a "files"-like grid view, organized by your site's URLs. Learn more about GDN Pages.
Dynamic Workflows
Automatically direct content to a step in one workflow path or another based on set conditions. Learn more about Dynamic Workflows.

We've changed our interface to simplify the user experience and increase focus on key functions that are needed to perform common daily tasks. As a best practice, the use of jobs is encouraged, so that you can take advantage of the jobs dashboard and associated features.

Key changes to highlight include:

Top navigation: This has been simplified to the areas that you need to manage, track and report on your translation requests. Account level settings and configurations are still available, accessed from within the new Account Settings menu.
Project Summary: The project summary page has a new look and feel, and is now more actionable. It provides information on jobs, open issues, and deeper insight into the progress across languages
Project Settings: Click on the gear icon on the top right of the project summary to view and manage key project settings such as active languages, workflow, and linguistic packages.

Locating Features (Classic vs. New Experience)

Account Dashboard

CLASSIC: Click the Smartling logo to access the Account Dashboard.	NEW: Click the Smartling logo to access the Account Dashboard.

API Keys

CLASSIC: Click the API menu.	NEW: Click the Account Settings dropdown arrow and select API.

Team

CLASSIC: Team > People/Agencies	NEW: Click the Account Settings dropdown arrow and select Team.

Project Settings

Languages (NEW)

This is a new page. You can add or remove a language, and configure a style guide for a project using this page.

NEW: Projects > Select a project > Gear Icon > Project Settings > Languages

Workflows

CLASSIC: Projects > Select a project > Project Settings > Translation Workflow	NEW: Projects > Select a project > Gear Icon > Project Settings > Workflow

New! Learn about Dynamic Workflows here

Content

Files

Upload a File:

CLASSIC: Projects > Select a project > Content > Files > Upload Files	NEW: Projects > Select a project > Upload Files

Request a Translation:

CLASSIC: Projects > Select a project > Content > Files > Select the files > Request Translation	NEW: Projects > Select the files > Request Translation

Translations (List View)

CLASSIC: Projects > Select a project > Content > Translations ("list view")	NEW: Projects > Select a project > Gear Icon > Workflow Summary > Click a word counter

Strings View (NEW)

Learn more about the Strings View

NEW: Project > Select a project > Click a file > Click a language link

Image Context

This is for uploading an image, such as a JPG or PNG file, for context.

CLASSIC: Projects > Select a project > Content > Image Context > Upload Files	NEW: Projects > Select a files project > Context tab > Upload Files

GDN

GDN Pages (NEW)

This is a new page that has no equivalent in the classic experience.

NEW: Projects > Select a GDN project > Pages

GDN Settings

CLASSIC: Projects > Select a GDN project > Global Delivery Network > Domains	NEW: Projects > Select a project > Gear Icon > Project Settings

GDN Capture Domain (NEW)

All new GDN projects now have an automatically configured "capture domain" for each domain that is added to that project. This is a localized domain that can capture content, but uses "pseudo localization" to show all strings rather than the actual translations. In other words, all content that passes through the proxy will appear pseudo-localized.

This is useful because:

It's a great way to see what is or isn't getting captured by the GDN, or rather, what is or isn't passing through the proxy.
It is an alternative to arbitrarily picking one target language and browsing the site in its translated state (if available).
It's easy for the user to read the content and identify what has or hasn't been captured.

edit_mode URL parameters are not supported.

NEW: Projects > Select a GDN project > Pages > Capture Domain

Connector Settings

Zendesk, Contentful, Marketo, Salesforce, Hubspot, etc.

CLASSIC: Projects > Select a connector project > Project Settings > Connector Settings	NEW: Projects > Select a connector project > Gear Icon > Project Settings > Connector Settings

Reports

All reports are now available account-wide and access from the top navigation "Reports" menu.