It’s been 11-years since I have written about the PowerShell Toolkit that was originally created by the development team in SDL. Back then I was able to fumble my way through setting it up, editing a few files, and automating the creation of a project in Trados Studio. In all the time since then it’s not really received any updates, although there have been a couple of notable events. First it was open-sourced in 2014 and then… well OK, only one notable event! The PowerShell Toolkit has actually not been touched in all of this time to any great extent much to the consternation of some localization engineers who would have liked to have seen more work done to improve its capabilities. In case you might wonder what use this Toolkit is… a brief explanation would be that it allows users to automate tasks that could be carried out in Trados Studio without the need for complex code development and without having to open Trados Studio at all!. The toolkit makes use of the PowerShell task automation framework, which is already integrated into Windows, making it accessible to users who might not be familiar with software development. The Trados Studio PowerShell Toolkit enables users to perform a variety of automated tasks, such as creating Translation Memories, setting up new projects, and generating project packages for different languages.
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CSV, or files with “comma separated values”, is a simple format that everyone should be able to handle. Certainly you’d think so except nothing is ever that straightforward and if you’ve ever spent time trying to work with these files and having to deal with all the problems inherent to this format then you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about. In our industry, localization, the number of problems can even increase because we also have to deal with converting the content from one language to another. I also wondered if there is a standard for CSV and the closest things to one is more of a recommendation, called 
After I did my last studies, apart from all the endless mandatory HR type training we have to endure these days, I thought that would be it for any sort of formal training for me. In fact the main reason for me doing my last formal studies, 
Whilst I would definitely not claim to be an expert, writing this blog has allowed me to learn a reasonable amount about XML over the years. Most of the articles I’ve written have been about explaining how to manage the many amazing features in the filetypes that are supported by Trados Studio… and of course how to deal with the many changes over the years as the filetypes have become more and more sophisticated catering for the demands of our customers and the changes in the technologies applied to XML in general. The result of these changes has led to some… let’s say… less than user friendly interfaces and features and you’d certainly be forgiven if you thought things were becoming a little chaotic!
