Performing a Scheduled Import or Export

This section describes how to schedule imports and exports for a translation memory, instead of performing imports and exports remotely.

Scheduled Import

There are two ways to import bilingual content into a server-based translation memory. You can use the TranslationMemoryImporter class to synchronously import the content into the translation memory. However this means that a roundtrip to the server happens for every batch of translation units imported (see ChunkSize). Over a slower network connection, this is not the optimal way to import content. Instead you should consider performing a scheduled import, which uploads the entire import file to the server and subsequently schedules a background operation for the Execution Server to import the file into the translation memory. This type of import uses a direct database connection, which avoids the network overhead incurred when performing the import remotely. Scheduled imports can be performed using the ScheduledTranslationMemoryImportOperation class. For an example of how to use this, see Scheduled TMX Imports.

Scheduled Export

There are two ways to export bilingual content from a server-based translation memory. You can use the TranslationMemoryExporter class to synchronously export the content from the translation memory. However this means that a roundtrip to the server happens for every batch of translation units exported (see ChunkSize). Over a slower network connection, this is not the optimal way to export content. Instead you should consider performing a scheduled export, which schedules a background operation for the Execution Server to perform the export. After the export is completed, the export file can be downloaded from the server. This type of export uses a direct database connection, which avoids the network overhead incurred when performing the export remotely. Scheduled exports can be performed using the ScheduledTranslationMemoryExportOperation class. For an example of how to use this, see Scheduled TMX Exports.