Translation Management

Phrase Strings Limits

Article content is machine translated from English to other languages by Phrase Translate.

File Size Upload Limits

  • Maximum import size for one translation file during upload: 120MB

  • Maximum screenshot size: 10MB

Content Size Limits

  • Max characters per translation: theoretical limit is 4,294,967,295 characters

  • Max characters per key name: 65,535 characters

API Limits: Async Requests

The most resource demanding actions in Phrase are called Async Requests as they are executed asynchronously. This includes the creation of new branches, pre-translations, analyses, uploads, QA, etc.

  • The time it takes to create, compare or merge a branch depends on the size of the project. The bigger the project the longer it takes.

  • Exporting files from Phrase Strings to GitHub is done asynchronously. The bigger the project the longer it takes.

  • Importing files to Phrase Strings from GitHub is done asynchronously. The bigger the project the longer it takes.

Search Limits

  • Results are limited to 10.000 results if full text or state filtered search is used.

Rate Limit

  • 1000 requests per 5 minutes.

  • 4 parallel requests per user.

Editor Limits

Search list limitations

  • 10 000 keys are returned by search in pages of 10.

  • Basic search: Tag suggestions return 25 first matching based on query after tag: (not paginated).

  • Advanced search: Tag suggestions return 25 first matching based on query (not paginated).

Locale selector limitations

  • Shows all locales in the project.

Workspace limitations

  • All locales can be selected and will be shown in a key card.

  • Continuous workspace is scrollable until search results end (10 000 keys).

  • Continuous workspace is available when less than 5 target locales are selected.

    • If 5 or more target locales are selected, single key view is forced.

Project overview context page

  • Shows 5 draft or in progress jobs.

Job overview context page

  • Shows only 25 first target locales of the job.

  • Shows only 25 first assigned to people.

  • Shows only 25 first reviewers.

Key overview context page

  • Shows only 1 MT suggestion.

  • Shows only 25 first TM suggestions.

  • Shows only 25 first draft or in progress jobs of the key.

Batch actions

  • Can only affect maximum of 10 000 keys as limited by search.

  • Can take some time to process in busy hours.

  • Batch actions that select every key are done async while incomplete selections are done sync.

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