WorldServer: How do I import a file type configuration from Trados Studio to WorldServer?

How do I import a file type configuration from Trados Studio to WorldServer?

Starting from WorldServer 11, you can import custom file type configurations from Trados Studio into WorldServer to ensure that your documents are processed and segmented consistently across both products and to avoid creating them twice.

Before you begin, make sure that the file type whose configuration you want to import exists both in WorldServer and in Trados Studio. Also, do not change the extension of the configuration file you export from Trados Studio (*.sdlftsettings). This article explains how to create an export of a File Type configuration from Trados Studio. Note: In Trados Studio, default file type configurations cannot be exported. You need to make a change to Default configurations in Trados Studio in order to be able to export them.

IMPORTANT: if you want to import a Custom XML (Embedded Content Processor) File Type configuration that uses a specific processor to handle embedded content into WorldServer, make sure you import the configuration of the processor configuration file (*.sdlecsettings file) first, before importing the Custom XML (Embedded Content Processor) File Type configuration (*.sdlftssettings file).

Import Procedure

1- On WorldServer, go to Management > Linguistic Tool Setup > File Types
2- Click on Import

3- In the Import Studio File Type Configuration window, click Browse
4- Find the *.sdlftsettings file you want to import, select it, and then click Open > OK 
5- WorldServer will ask you to give the configuration a name. If you want, you can override the content of the Description field with a note that might be useful to you or others, like "Imported by user ABC on date xy etc.":



After the successful import, your file type configuration is available to be selected in Project Types and as part of File Type Groups.

Relevant only for the Custom XML (Embedded Content Processor) File Type: After you import configurations for embedded content processors, do not rename them. The Custom XML (Embedded Content Processor) file types that use those configurations will still be linked to their original name.

To learn how to export a File Type Setting from Trados Studio, refer to this article:

How to export File Type Settings from Trados Studio

Also relevant:

How to modify a Custom XML (Embedded Content Processor) File Type configurations where an embedded content processor is used starting from WorldServer 11.7?
WorldServer 11.7.x - error when importing an *. sdlftssettings file 'The referenced embedded content doesn't exist in the system. Please import the embedded content first or adjust your configuration settings.'