Contentful Publishing Options Configuration

Smartling typically returns translated content back to the source application in the same state it was ingested in. With the Contentful Connector, you can configure the state you want the translations to be in. For example, you may want your published source content translated and delivered back in a draft state, for an additional review. 

Whatever the case, you can configure the publishing status of their newly delivered translations in Contentful, from the Smartling Project configuration.

Configure Contentful Delivery Options

• In Smartling, go to your Contentful Project
• Click the Settings tab
• Click Contentful Settings
• Under Delivery Options, choose from one of the three options

Note: To avoid errors in publishing media assets, ensure that Contentful permissions has minimum read-only rights for Media.

Contentful Delivery Options

1. Never publish: When the completed translations are delivered, they are marked as "Changed" in Contentful and are not published automatically.
2. Always publish: Smartling will publish an entry after successful delivery, even if the entry was in a Draft state as a source.
3. Re-publish (if published): This option ensures the connector will match the entry's current status upon translation delivery. If an entry was in a Published state, then upon translation delivery, Smartling will re-publish the entry (when Smartling delivers translations it automatically unpublishes, hence re-publish). If the entry was in Draft state, then translations are delivered as Draft. This is the current default behavior. Information on Contentful statuses can be found here. 
   Examples
   a. Entry was published, but the current status is Changed (entry has unpublished changes). Translations would be delivered as Changed. 
   b. Entry status is Draft, translations would be delivered as Draft. 
   c. Entry status is Published, translations would be delivered as Published.