You will need to edit the proposal pool in the following situations:

• Corrections to existing terms in the proposal pool might be necessary, for example, if the term entered is incorrect or the meaning has changed.
• Adjustments to the translation of existing terms might be required, for example, if the style is not consistent with SAP standard translation.
• It might be necessary to change the System standard or the Application standard. Translators with the appropriate status need to decide which term is to be used as the System standard and which term as the Application standard. In addition, the Node text needs to be defined. A text that has been created as an Exception might be more appropriate as a System standard.
• Translators with a higher status should perform quality control checks of the proposal pool at regular intervals for their application and language. The proposal pool shows how existing terms have been translated, when and by whom.

In order to change a term, you must satisfy one of the following criteria:

• Your translator status is higher than the current status of the term.
• You have Coordinator or Advanced status (a Coordinator or Advanced translator can change another Coordinator’s/Advanced translator’s translation).

You can, of course, change the terms you have entered yourself.

You maintain the proposal pool in a dialog box called Proposal Pool: Editing. In this dialog box, all texts are displayed in a tree structure. The source text is shown first. If you call up the proposal pool from transaction SE63, the application in which the source text was created is also displayed. Below the source text, all target texts are displayed, in the following order:

If more texts exist for a node text, there is an Expand sign next to the text. Click on this sign to display all entries. If there is a Collapse sign next to the text, you can collapse all the entries.

You can print this tree structure of

A System standard translation is indicated by a blank box.

An Application standard is indicated by a box containing the application indicator, such as FI.

An Exception is indicated by a bell icon. Exceptions can only be application-specific.

In the Proposal Pool: Editing dialog box, you can perform the following activities:

• Display technical object information on the source or target text.

• Create new length variants or exceptions for the target text.

• Delete length variants, or exceptions
• Delete application standards, along with all exceptions and length variants assigned to them

• Reassign an application standard as the system standard

• Swap two texts (for example, an application standard and an exception, the system standard and a length variant), if you have the appropriate status

• Find out all short text objects where a specific proposal occurs in the system.