Smartcat release notes for the new updates, features, and fixes

We’ve made several exciting updates to enhance your experience with Smartcat's AI learning content creation tool.

Here’s what’s new:

New Features:

• Customizable SCORM Navigation:
  You can now choose from three different navigation styles for SCORM packages: Sidebar, Compact, or Overlay, allowing you to personalize your course layout.

• Improved Language Search:
  A new language search feature has been added to streamline the translation process within the tool.

• Updates and Changes:

  • Structure Page Renamed to Outline:
    To make navigation clearer, the "Structure" page is now called Outline.

• Disabled Preview & Export Without Structure:
  The Preview and Export buttons will remain disabled if no course structure is in place, preventing errors.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed Labeled Graphic Issues:
  Resolved a problem where some images had lost their coordinates in previously uploaded labeled graphics.

• General Bug Fixes:
  Minor bugs have been addressed to improve stability and performance.

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We have added a new feature that allows users to skip the translation of locked elements within Figma. This enhancement is part of our ongoing effort to improve the Smartcat Figma integration, streamlining the translation process for design workflows.

With this update, you can now preserve specific locked text objects, such as brand names or fixed terms, ensuring they remain untranslated and in the original language during localization.

This offers greater control over the translation process, particularly when working with complex design projects.

You can now use existing Smartcat projects to translate Figma design assets. You can read about how to connect use the Figma plugin for Smartcat in our Help Center.

We have introduced the ability to edit previously created integrations directly within the Integration Hub. This feature is especially useful when an API key expires, as it eliminates the need to recreate the entire connection or manually update it via support.

Users can now simply modify the existing integration settings for a more seamless experience. This change enhances the flexibility and convenience of managing your integrations, ensuring that you can easily maintain connectivity without starting from scratch.

We have added support for using custom project templates when creating new projects for integrations from the Integration Hub. This feature allows users to streamline their workflow by applying predefined templates, ensuring that new projects are set up consistently and efficiently without the need for manual configuration each time.

With this update, you can now standardize your project creation process, saving time and reducing the risk of errors.

We have enhanced the Figma integration by adding support for Figma masks in Live Preview. Now, when you preview designs that use masking to show specific parts of an object or image, the Live Preview will accurately display them just as they appear in Figma. This improvement ensures a more precise, real-time visualization of your designs, allowing for better collaboration and feedback during design reviews.

Discover how Smartcat's Figma integration helps streamline design translations.

For step-by-step instructions, head to the Figma integration Help Center article.

Our latest update to the Akeneo integration allows users to search for multiple products simultaneously by entering a list of SKUs (Stock Keeping Units). As shown in the image, you can now filter your product searches more effectively by adding several SKUs in the filter bar, streamlining the process of managing and finding specific products. This is especially useful for users who need to locate or update several products at once, significantly saving time and effort.

Read our Help Center article about the Smartcat Akeneo integration to learn more.

You can enjoy the added ability to save a pre-set of product attributes, streamlining the translation process by allowing users to easily apply consistent translation settings across products.

• Discover more about using Smartcat's Akeneo integration in our Help Center.

Fixed Undo Revert Translation Issue: Resolved a bug where translations reverted upon using the "Undo" function in Figma. This ensures that the translation process remains consistent, even after an undo action.

Improved Translation Syncing: Enhanced the synchronization flow of translations to eliminate issues where translations were only partially applied. This improvement guarantees a smoother and more complete translation update across the Figma project.

Frame Name Key Prefix Support: Introduced the capability to use the frame name as a key prefix in SLP projects. This addition helps streamline the organization and identification of translation keys, as shown in the screenshot with the sc1_test_key derived from the frame name "SC1."

The attached screenshot demonstrates the new feature, highlighting how the frame name ("SC1") is used as a prefix in the key (sc1_test_key) for the text object "Sample Text."

We’ve released an updated version of Smartcat's integration with Figma, delivering improved performance on pages containing many frames. This enhancement ensures smoother and faster translation workflows, particularly for complex Figma designs, helping you to accelerate your global time-to-market and maintain high-quality translations across all your projects.

If you want to learn more about using the Figma integration, you can check out our dedicated Figma help center article.

We have resolved an issue where the live preview was not displaying in the CAT multi-file view and when attempting to view the preview in a separate window. This fix ensures that live previews now function correctly in both scenarios.

We’ve added the ability to use your personal balance of Smartwords to pay for Website Translator This enhancement provides greater flexibility in managing and utilizing your Smartwords across different translation tasks.

We’re excited to introduce support for localizing inherited fields within product categories. Now, when you localize a field like "Description" for a specific product (e.g., "Coca-Cola 0.5l"), the translation will automatically apply to all other products inheriting that field within the same category (e.g., "Coca-Cola 0.33l"). This enhancement gives you greater control over localized content across related products, ensuring consistency and accuracy.

Learn more about using Smartcat's integration for Akeneo in our Help Center article.

When custom fonts are used for the Figma, you will now be able to see these in the live preview. You will first have to upload your custom font to our server. Not doing so means that the custom font will not show up in the live preview and instead, you will see the default font. 

You can upload fonts in two different ways:

• Via Smartcat Editor:

Via your Smartcat workspace:

Learn more about custom fonts in Smartcat Editor live previews in our dedicated Figma integration help center article.

When you or your team are reviewing translations, you'll see a pop-up message if you want to leave Smartcat Editor and you have not yet completed the translation review, i.e. confirmed all of the segments. You may still leave Editor, however, this will help you and your reviewers not miss anything when translating texts or reviewing translations.

• If you are a project manager, you'll see a message asking if you'd like to invite a reviewer, and you'll be brought to the tasks page of your project.

• If you are a reviewer, you'll see a message asking if you want to continue editing.