Phrase TMS Releases 2023

MTQE has been replaced with Phrase QPS. Phrase QPS is an AI Quality Estimation system intended to predict scores derived from the industry-standard Multidimensional Quality Metrics (MQM) framework.

Custom .XML import settings can now be created and saved as XML profiles.

An integration with Salesforce Suite is now available.

New workflow step population logic which allows users to choose whether to enable or not in the project or project template settings. Changes made to target in the final workflow step will be populated to all preceding workflow steps after source update.

Updated view of the Associated Projects dropdown on the APC overview page. Users will now be able to see all the projects related to a given APC regardless of their status. New project status chips have been implemented for improved clarity.

Internal fuzzy match columns are now added to the ANALYSIS_JOB_PART_V2 table of Phrase Data. The new fields include both raw and net values (for example: [DATA_IF_MATCH0_WORDS] and NET_DATA_IF_MATCH0_WORDS).

Advanced Analytics

It was not possible to delete users from the Users page. This has been fixed.

Filter on TM list page did not indicate that something was filtered. This has been fixed.

Business Units were removed from the metadata of projects based on associated project manager. This has been fixed.

For some jobs it was not possible to open or download the source file. This has been fixed.

A Buyer couldn’t unassign a job from a vendor or delete such a job if the assigned vendor created and assigned an analysis. This has been fixed.

Not all files are displayed on the reference section. This has been fixed.

A blank page is presented instead of a page with given project metadata under Settings → Business units / Cost Centers / Clients / Domains / Subdomains in some organizations. This has been fixed.

The submitter portal had some layout issues and buttons were not visible. This has been fixed.

LQA scorecard displays number of issue per segment instead of segment number. This has been fixed.

ICU does not work properly with .JSON nested in CDATA .XML files. This has been fixed.

It was not possible to download .XSLT files from import settings when saving a project as template. This has been fixed.

The delete button moves down according to the side scroll of the browser. This has been fixed.

An extra space is added between period and closing quotes. This has been fixed.

Attaching a glossary with one DeepL unsupported language combo in an MT profile w/ other engines returns a null message. This has been fixed.

All columns can now be filtered on the TM list page.

When the order of TMs is changed on the TM list page, it will be remembered for when the list is opened again.

It was not possible to add a TB as read only via API. This has been fixed.

Without the Create projects user right it is not possible to modify projects. This has been fixed.

When creating a project with many target languages, the dropdown list had no scrollbar. This has been fixed.

Incorrect Job Status Changed emails are sent to the project owner. This has been fixed.

When no allowed domain is specified and Allow loading of iframes in CAT web editor is enabled, it is not possible to save projects using the new project wizard. This has been fixed.

Downloaded .YAML files were invalid. This has been fixed.

Auto-complete was not working in a project with a Phrase Language AI engine with zero MT profiles enabled. This has been fixed.

IDM does not provide a login dialog when triggering sign in from a Zendesk page. This has been fixed.

Analytics

The legacy project creation and editing pages are removed and fully replaced by the new project wizard.

Project metadata is now added to job-level webhooks.

Domains and other metadata cannot be deleted from the user interface. This has been fixed.

It was not possible to add new terms to a linked term base from within the CAT desktop editor. This has been fixed.

Providers selected for notification are not receiving notification of new work. This has been fixed.

Some files cannot be selected for import from online repositories. This has been fixed.

LQA scorecards contains missing or wrong information as per the data on a job and incorrect number of segments in split jobs. This has been fixed.

Customers could only see Ready products on the dashboard when they should also see Available products. This has been fixed.

Some customers were directed to an incorrect Phrase support site URL when clicking the Help button. This has been fixed.

Invitation links can be accepted by just copying the URL over an active IDM session bypassing sign in credentials.. This has been fixed.

When the option Create for provider as well was enabled in the Financial settings of a service, the corresponding project created via the Submitter portal did not trigger email notifications. This has been fixed.

Some organizations were unable to create new TMs. This has been fixed.

Phrase Analytics charts by language pair are now updated to show by language locale. The dashboard filters are also updated from language pair to locale pair.

Relevancy section for Guest users has been removed.

There was an error when visiting the project list page that contained deleted users. This has been fixed.

It was not possible to remove a single language from relevant source or target languages in the Relevancy section of the Edit user page. This has been fixed.

When searching for a TM in the new Translation Memories list page, entering a word that was not at the beginning of the name did not work. The search returned results only if the TM name was entered from the beginning. This has been fixed.

When editing a user, the Relevancy dropdown list displayed more languages than the user selected. This has been fixed.

Assigned TBs were removed from the project after selecting other TBs to add. This has been fixed.

LQA scorecards contained missing or wrong information as per the data on the job. This has been fixed.

When uploading a bilingual file, the setting to save segments in the TM was not remembered. This has been fixed.

For shared projects and jobs, the Quality dashboard and table will now show the organization name instead of the organization ID in the Translation provider username field.

It was not possible to type in the Net rate scheme and Price list fields in a Linguist’s profile to look up a desired item. This has been fixed.

When trying to delete a connector used in a submitter portal, the warning message was not fully displayed if the connector name contained ].

Emails sent to users by the system are now marked as sent by Phrase TMS (to distinguish them from those sent by Phrase Strings).

The data refresh time for Phrase Analytics is now triggered twice daily:

The word/character count by provider chart in the Volume dashboard, now also shows the values across workflow steps. The chart denotes the workflow step by its order sequence within the job.

Advanced Analytics: The values of the existing field ANALYSIS_TYPE in the ANALYSIS_DETAIL_V1 table have been changed to reflect the values displayed in the TMS UI.

Users having questions/dashboards that include filtering on a value of the field analysis_type will require updating

Analyses not being created automatically as per the setup in the Services. This has been fixed.

Uploading a bilingual file does not remember the saveToTransMemory parameter. This has been fixed.

metadata updated webhook is not being triggered in by the project wizard. This has been fixed.

Advanced Analytics: The following fields will be removed from the analysis_detail table as they contain no values:

There’s a new option for setting how the context key for .PO files is built. msgctxt and msgid can be used in addition to msgstr.

Create project and Save project buttons are now placed in the bottom right corner of the project wizard. Navigation through project settings remains possible through the left menu.

The following fields names are renamed in the analysis_detail table within Advanced analytics. These changes will not create breaking changes on any current queries utilizing these fields.

Some analyses created in a project using the submitter portal did not trigger the webhook. This has been fixed.

Hyperlink is not underlined in Open the job(s) as a read-only warning. This has been fixed.

Phrase Custom AI is now available as a comprehensive environment for the creation, training, and deployment of custom MT models. Phrase Custom AI allows users to train an MT engine on their language data (i.e. translation memories), reducing post-editing and increasing automation.

Main features include:

Phrase Translate has been renamed to Phrase Language AI. The user interface has been redesigned to introduce more tabs and an alternative profile view, together with an Explore section for educational material.

Phrase Language AI will also be accessible via API.

ModernMT is now integrated as a manually managed engine into Phrase Language AI (formerly Phrase Translate).

English < > Japanese language pair is now supported in Phrase NextMT.

Existing users can now be invited to join multiple Phrase Suite organizations and easily switch between them.

It is now possible to monitor multiple remote folders or files within a single APC setup. Currently only supported for the JobSync integration.

The translation memory page has been redesigned to enable search and TM upkeep across all/selected TMs at once. Advanced search capabilities allow narrowing down search results. Users can now maintain TM content by editing segments in single or multiple TMs.

Advanced Analytics:

The Volume dashboard now allows users to select the metric to view charts either by word count or character count.

Uzbek (Latin) was listed twice among supported active languages. Uzbek and Uzbek (Latin) are now displayed.

TMS now supports users working in multiple organizations so the email related username field has been removed from the signup form.

The currency filter of the Cost and Savings dashboards now allows the selection of a single currency in order to display one currency at a time.

Internal fuzzy matches are now included in the analysis_detail table in Advanced Analytics. This is only for raw values (i.e. where no net rate scheme applied).

words_processed, words_completed, characters_processed, and characters_completed have been added across Volume, Time, and Job Detail tables in Advanced Analytics.

Analysis was failing with an internal error. This has been fixed.

In-context preview was rendering colors incorrectly with .IDML files making the text unreadable. This has been fixed.

Webhook for unshared job did not include complete information. This has been fixed.

Help widget is now closed upon logging in and can be closed and removed from the UI if required.

Quote status for_approval is now factored in Cost and Savings dashboards as well as their respective tables in Advanced Analytics.

Another set of supported languages/locales has been added.

Project created webhooks occasionally contained null values instead of real data. This has been fixed.

LQA could not be completed if the job contained placeholders with no actual content. This has been fixed.

Time durations were not displayed in hours in the OnTime table in Advanced Analytics. This has been fixed.

Clicking the button in the navigation sidebar doesn't open create dialogues. This has been fixed.

New quote button is incorrectly enabled when vendor/buyer does not have their own analysis. This has been fixed.

Update target has different error state handling than Update source. This has been fixed.

Subscribe now leads to blank Payment page for expired trials. This has been fixed.

Webhooks for unsharing job and project have been added.

Advanced Analytics: The job_uid field is now available in Volume, OnTime, Quality, Job_Detail tables.

Analytics dashboards:

Single sign-on (SSO) is now supported at the Suite level for all customers, allowing for a secure single login experience for all of the Phrase applications.

Migration process:

In some cases, the content of source tags was changing as per the tag metadata from TM matches. This has been fixed.

Clicking LQA status (PASS/FAIL) did not open window with LQA results. This has been fixed.

The message informing users about trial expiration had broken formatting. This has been fixed.

Average score in the Quality dashboard was calculated incorrectly for LQA issues coming from multiple categories and/or severities. This has been fixed.

There is a new project creation wizard that helps streamline the creation process. The legacy interface will continue to be available.

Macros with information about recipients were not working properly in some email notifications. This has been fixed.

When a TM upload failed, the error message was not descriptive enough. This has been fixed.

Submitter, Linguist and Guest roles were not able to change their own email addresses. This has been fixed.

LQA scorecards were not visible to buyers if the LQA was performed by a sub-vendor. This has been fixed.

It wasn’t possible to remove vendors from jobs. This has been fixed.

Information in the project view is not consistent with the legacy project view. This has been fixed.

On the APC configuration page, users can now preview the settings of the selected project template. This removes the need to open multiple tabs to double check languages, workflow steps, TMs and TBs assigned to the template and used for an automation.

Users are now required to confirm the email change if it is initiated by the administrator. Confirmation is required for security and privacy reasons.

It was not possible to add Additional steps to quotes. This has been fixed.

Refreshed APC Overview Page, with updated batch actions (trigger monitor, force import, delete) and new filter functionality. Customers will be able to filter their APCs by status, type, APC version, last triggered and next scheduled trigger. Customers will be able to see projects associated with a given APC.

Users are now required to confirm the email change if it is initiated by the  administrator. Confirmation is required for security and privacy reasons.

The plus icon for creating Projects, TMs, TBs is not working properly. This has been fixed.

The Lang column is exported as an empty string when creating users.csv files. This has been fixed.

m:created-at and m:created-by metadata is empty for segments translated offline with bilingual .MXLIFF. This has been fixed.

Spellcheck not working for words followed by /. This has been fixed.

When using both regular expressions and the HTML subfilter on .PO files, the completed target files are corrupted or the specified content was not converted to tags in the editor. This has been fixed.

The legacy analytics reports, dashboards and Kibana will be deprecated as of May 15, 2023. New dashboards have been released and are accessible in Phrase Analytics.

New language pairs (En <> Simplified Chinese) will be added to Phrase NextMT. Available from May 24th.

Analytics: New tables are now added in Advanced Analytics, consisting of quotes, cost, savings, and leverage data. Available from May 24th.

A vendor was able to see all project target languages when filtering jobs by target language instead of those that were shared with vendor only. This has been fixed.

A specific due time of a job due the following year was not displayed in the tooltip with the due date in jobs view. This has been fixed.

The pop-up field for Filtering for references shows up at the top of the screen. This has been fixed.

Clicking the Keep subscription button didn't always reactivate the subscription (the button was still displayed and the subscription was not reactivated). This has been fixed.

These additional languages are now supported:

Some non-translatable inline elements escaped some closing tags. This has been fixed.

Searching for project names in the archive did not work. This has been fixed.

Reference file upload failed when the Note field contained non-English characters. This has been fixed.

The German de spellchecker detected parts of the words as issues and these words were then incorrectly replaced when adding spellchecker suggestions. This has been fixed.

The job status in the job's status tooltip was being duplicated. This has been fixed.

Created by filter is now available in the project list.

Phrase TMS CLDR support has been updated to v42. See the CLDR 42 release note for more information.

Existing Phrase Language AI graphs will be moved to a new dedicated tab, which will now include several new graphs. These show data on the usage of engines, MT Glossaries, and MT Profiles for users with editions that support these features. Additionally, the MT character consumption logic will be updated, to include characters that were translated using the MT cache, or those that results in an error.

Submitter portal page continuously refreshes if a portal has been moved to the recycle bin. This has been fixed.

The obvious best match from TB was not suggested in the CAT pane. This has been fixed with an improvement to the matching algorithm.

Email to Vendor of a shared project created via submitter portal was triggered too soon. This has been fixed.

MT engine SDL BeGlobal was renamed to Language Weaver and specific endpoints for EU and US data centers were added.

Internal fuzzies can now be included in job analyses and net rate schemes as a separate category.

TM algorithm now aligns segment and project metadata to ensure the best possible match. Project metadata (client, domain, subdomain, filename) stored on segment-level can be prioritized in the TM match context and optimization settings.

Phrase Analytics:

It was not possible to display more than 50 custom fields in the UI. This has been fixed.

When filtering for job status in the project page, the filtered status was not displayed. This has been fixed.

Tooltips in subscription pages have been updated to include information about billing amounts and credits.

The inner ID has been appended to the Project name in the jobs page. This helps distinguish between projects with the same name. The inner ID can also be used in searches.

When a provider was assigned in multiple workflow steps of a project and the {workflow.name} macro was used in the subject of an email template, only the first workflow step was mentioned. This has been fixed (other steps are mentioned as well).

Correctly spelled words were detected as spelling issues in Croatian. This has been fixed.

Update target button seemed to be unavailable (greyed out) but functioned. This has been fixed - when available, the button is not greyed out.

Currency and billing unit values were lost when going back from step 2 to step 1 during quote creation. This has been fixed.

In analyses run on more than 100k segments, there were some discrepancies between the total word count and the sum of word counts from individual categories. This has been fixed.

Import of .XML files fails and displays the INVALID_REQUEST: Server returned HTTP response code: 429 for URL: error. This has been fixed.

Correctly spelled ZH term LabVIEW was flagged as forbidden, because case sensitivity was not supported in Asian languages. This has been fixed.

New IS operator was added to Search for content functionality. This operator looks for content that exactly matches whole segments, e.g. if searching for I bought a car, I bought a car is presented, but not I bought a car yesterday.

New option was added in the left pane to speed up creation of new projects, translation memories, term bases or users. The icon appears when hovering over Projects, Translation memories, Term bases and Users.

Multiple reference files can now be uploaded at once.

Any outstanding credits will now be calculated in next billing amounts.

Webhooks were being triggered before a project was submitted via the Submitter portal. This has been fixed.

Ampersands & are converted to entities & in the search filter for jobs, so jobs with & in the filename were not found. This has been fixed.

When sharing a project, Vendor was able to select a Buyer's analysis when creating the quote (but could not proceed). This has been fixed. Vendors can no longer select Buyer's analysis (and vice versa - Buyer cannot select Vendor's analysis).

NextMT: Italian, German, Dutch languages are now supported.

Assigned jobs could not be deleted from within a project. This has been fixed.

APC V2:

A newly created admin user cannot see data on the Analytics dashboard. This has been fixed for newly created admins but existing admins that do not see data in the dashboards need to have their profiles re-saved before data is visible.

Some UI changes to improve user experience were performed on the subscription page / upgrade flow.

Subsequent repetitions are deleted after an import of bilingual .DOCX when the first repetition is locked. This has been fixed.

Uploading a bilingual .DOCX with extra empty columns resulted in replacing the source text with the target text. This has been fixed.

Upon import of a bilingual .DOCX file back to a project, segments with line breaks were unconfirmed even if there was no change in them. This has been fixed.

When setting up a customized view on some pages (TM and TB) using a gear icon, the Apply button to confirm changes was not visible. This has been fixed.

Even though all jobs were completed in a project, the project dashboard did not indicate Overall progress 100%. This has been fixed.