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Optimizely Languages can be used to export and import XLIFF files that can be sent to inhouse translators or localization agencies.

`ITranslationPackageExporter` and `ITranslationPackageImporter` are interfaces used for import and export of translation packages to a project. The default implementations are `XLIFFTranslationPackageImporter` and `XLIFFTranslationPackageExporter`.

## Requirements

  • No additional license fee.

  • An Optimizely Content Management System (CMS) or Optimizely Customized Commerce installation.

  • See [Add-ons platform compatibility](🔗) for package and version information. 

## Install

  • Versions 7.5 and higher are [installed through NuGet](🔗).

  • Version 7 is installed and updated through one-click installation.

## Documentation

  • Developer guide:

    • [Configuring auto-translation](🔗)

    • [Breaking changes Optimizely Languages 2.0](🔗)

  • [User guide Optimizely Languages](🔗)

## Configure auto-translation

This section describes how to configure an auto-translation service for the Optimizely Languages app. Optimizely Languages uses as its translation provider Microsoft Translator, which is part of the Microsoft Cognitive Services collection of APIs, available in the [Azure portal](🔗). The following steps show how to configure the auto-translate option.

**Connect to the auto-translation service**

  1. [Subscribe to Azure](🔗), if you haven’t done so already.

  2. Configure the auto-translate component in Optimizely Languages.

    1. Go to admin view > **Config** > **Tool Settings** > **Language Manager**.

    2. In the **Translator Provider**, select **Cognitive Service Translator**.

    3. In the **Subscription Key** box, enter your Microsoft subscription key (Key 1).

    4. In **Subscription Region**, enter the Location value from the Azure subscription service.

    5. Save your changes.

See also: [Reminder: Move Translator API subscriptions from DataMarket to Azure before April 30, 2017](🔗).

## Breaking changes for Languages version 2

This topic describes API changes in version 2 of Episerver Languages.

Note

Episerver Languages was renamed to Optimizely Languages.

### Changed

Introduced new methods in the `ILanguageBranchManager` interface and its implementation, `LanguageBranchManager`. Compared with old methods, the difference is that the new method returns newly created content as an `out` paramenter (`createdContentLink`):



### Marked as obsolete

The following functions in `ILanguageBranchManager` and its default implementation `LanguageBranchManager` are obsolete and will be removed in an upcoming release:



### New dependencies 

Languages 2.0 depends on newer packages: _EPiServer.CMS.Core_ 9.8, _EPiServer.CMS.UI_ 9.5.0