Quality Status
Definition
All proposals in the proposal pool, except exceptions, have a quality status. Whenever you create a domain standard, system standard, or abbreviation in the proposal pool, the system prompts you to assign a quality status. The higher a proposal's quality status, the greater its chances of being the best proposal in the short text editor and of being automatically distributed during a worklist evaluation. The following five quality statuses exist:
|
Quality Status |
Quality Status ID |
Numerical Value |
|---|---|---|
|
Flag for distribution |
A |
90 - 99 |
|
Standard quality status |
S |
60 - 89 |
|
Created by new translator |
B |
40 - 59 |
|
Not recommended for distribution |
X |
1 - 39 |
|
Deleted proposal |
Z |
0 |
Use
If the proposal pool contains more than one domain standard or system standard for a source text, the system uses the quality status to determine which proposal is the best proposal. The proposal with the highest quality status is the best proposal. For more information, see Creating Multiple System / Domain Standards.
If you use the Copy Best Proposals function in the short text editor to copy best proposals into new translation lines, you must specify the quality status as of which best proposals are copied.
If you are the translation administrator, and if you want to perform evaluations with automatic distribution, you must determine the quality status as of which proposals are automatically distributed during evaluation runs. You must do this for each object type and target language. For example, you can specify that only proposals with quality status A are distributed in the object type data elements. For more information, see Defining Distribution Parameters.
Integration
The quality status of a specific proposal appears on its left in the proposal pool. You can see the numeric value of the quality status by displaying attributes for the proposal. See Displaying Attributes for a Proposal.
In the short text editor, the status bar of source texts for which a proposal exists in the proposal pool contains an icon for the different types of proposal:
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for a domain standard -
for a system standard -
for an exception
To the right of the icon for a system standard and domain standard, the system displays the quality status. No quality status is displayed for exceptions. For more information on the information that is displayed in the status bar for source texts, see Legend for Icons in the Short Text Editor.
Your translator profile determines the quality statuses that you can assign. The translation administrator or coordinator assigns a translator profile to every translator in transaction Translation Administration (LXE_MASTER) to determine which translators are authorized to assign which quality statuses.
Example
Example 1
You translate from German into English. You create the translation Save as a system standard in the proposal pool for the source text Sichern. You want to assign the highest quality status to this proposal because it’s the only possible English translation of this particular German source text, which means it’s perfectly safe for all occurrences of Sichern to be translated via automatic distribution as Save in future. If your translator profile allows, you can assign quality status A.
Example 2
You translate from German into English. You create Translators as a system standard in the proposal pool for the source text Übersetzer. You do not want to assign a high quality status to this proposal, because Übersetzer is an ambiguous source text that could mean Translators (plural) or Translator (singular), depending on the context. We recommend that you assign quality status X to the proposals Translators and Translator because it is not safe for any occurrences of Übersetzer to be translated via automatic distribution. The proposals are therefore not recommended for distribution.
More Information
For more information on proposal pool concepts, see Proposal Pool, Proposal Pool Concepts and the subordinate documents.
For more information on creating, changing, and deleting proposals, and on accessing the entries in the proposal pool, see Proposal Pool Maintenance and the subordinate documents, as well as Transaction SLPP.