Lokalise is a translation management system built for agile teams who want to automate their localization process. We give developers the tools to eliminate the hassle of localization: powerful APIs, CLI tool, mobile SDKs, and comprehensive documentation. We know it can be hard to get started with a new system, so we solved this problem with a clear interface, automated project upload, text recognition. Invite users, add translators, and be on your way in minutes.

Authenticating

Lokalise uses API Key based auth, a developer-friendly delegated access protocol. Quolum has already connected the necessary wires with Lokalise. Using a sequence of click-throughs, your organization's administrator allows Quolum to make API calls to Lokalise without getting access to passwords.

Step 1: Initiate a connection to Lokalise

Click the Connect button from the Connections card. If you are not an admin, you can invite your organization's Lokalise admin to make a connection to your Lokalise organization account. When you click on the Connect button, the web browser will navigate to the Lokalise login page.

Step 2: Log in to Lokalise

Log in to Lokalise using your organization's credentials. The exact login mechanism may depend on your Lokalise plan, and the sign-in mechanism used. You may have corporate SSO such as Azure AD, GSuite, or Okta along with multi-factor authentication. Once you have successfully logged-in you can find the API Key and API Secret as mentioned below in Step 3.

Step 3: Back to Quolum

Once you have granted access to Quolum, Lokalise is going to send you back to Quolum's page in Step 1, where you started. The Connect button on the Connections card would now say Reconnect. Reconnect is used to reauthenticate under circumstances where the access has expired.

Under the hood

Using the OAuth protocol, Quolum now has delegated access to your Lokalise Workspace. The Quolum server, running on Amazon AWS VPC, will be able to make API calls and retrieve feature-level utilization of projects, stories, and tasks. Later, this data is crunched and available for visualization on the Quolum dashboard.