Assigning Collections to a Translator

Use

You need to assign collections to each translator so that they can call up the objects belonging to these collections in a worklist and translate them. Each translator can also display translation statistics for the collections assigned to them, to enable them to monitor their personal workload.

Prerequisites

The user(s) to whom you want to assign collections are created as translators in transaction Translation Environment (LXE_MASTER).
Your translator profile includes authorization object USCO with value 01 (if you are only assigning collections to translators in your team) or… with value 02 (if you are assigning collections to translators irrespective of which team they belong to, or whether they belong to a team or not).
To assign collections that are not assigned to you, you also need authorization object COSE with value 01.

Procedure

The procedure for assigning collections depends on whether you have been created as a coordinator for all languages (language ****) or for just one language, and whether you want to assign collections to one translator or several translators at the same time.

Collection assignment takes place in transaction LXE_MASTER on the Translators tab page.

The table below describes the three possible procedures:

Activity	Procedure
Assign collections to one translator (all coordinators)	Choose Assignments or select the Display/Change Collection->Translator Assignments icon on the toolbar. The Translators (Language, Translator) dialog box appears. Expand the target language of the translator to whom you want to assign collections and double-click the translator. The Translators dialog box appears. Any collections that are already assigned to the translator are displayed in this dialog box. If you only want to assign a few collections, enter them manually in this dialog box. You also need to enter the translation area (999999 for ABAP translation) and domain type (R for ABAP translation) for each collection that you enter here. To select a number of collections, choose Collections and select the collections that you want to assign. Choose Save. Choose Save.
Assign collections to several translators (coordinators for one or multiple specific target language(s) only)	Choose Assign Collections on the Translators tab page or the Assign Collections to Translators button on the toolbar. The Target Language dialog box appears. Double-click the target language of the translators to whom you want to assign collections. The Collections dialog box appears. Select the collections that you want to assign and choose Save. The Translators (Language, Translator) dialog box appears. Double-click the translators to whom you want to assign the selected collections and choose Execute. A dialog box informs you of how many translators and target languages are affected by this assignment. Choose Assign. Repeat this procedure for any further collection assignments that you need to make. Caution All collections that you select here are assigned to the translators irrespective of how those collections are defined in the translation graph. This means it is possible for you to assign collections to a translator that are not relevant for translation.
Assign collections to multiple translators (applies to coordinators created for ALL (****) target languages only)	Choose Assign Collections. Select the collections that you want to assign and choose Save. The Select Translators dialog box appears. Select the translators to whom you want to assign these collections. For more information, see Selecting Translators in the Select Translators Dialog Box. The Check Languages Against Graphs Before Assigning checkbox enables you to assign only those collections that are translation-relevant to the translators that you selected above. For example, if you try to assign a particular collection to a translator into target language esES, but the collection is not assigned to a graph that is defined for translation into target language esES, then the collection is not assigned to the translator. This enables you to assign a large number of collections to multiple translators across a variety of target languages in a fast and targeted way. Choose Save to execute the assignment. A dialog box informs you of how many translators and target languages are affected by this assignment. Choose Assign.

Result

After successfully assigning collections to translators, they can now call up the objects belonging to these collections in a worklist and translate them. Each translator can also display translation statistics for the collections assigned to them.