Creating Translator Profiles (SAP Library - Setting Up and Coordinating Translation (BC-DOC-TTL))

Creating Translator Profiles

Use

You can use translator profiles to control the activities that translators/coordinators can perform in the translation system. For example, you can create one profile that allows a translator to change all proposals in the proposal pool, and another profile that allows coordinators to assign and lock packages.

You need to assign a translator profile to each translator/coordinator that you create. Each user can have only one profile per target language. For more information, see Maintaining Translators.

It is not possible to create translators until translator profiles are available in the system. Each profile can contain one or more authorizations.

You can either create your own translator profiles, or upload the default translator profiles delivered by SAP.

You can also use the Profile Swap function to globally change the authorizations of translators. For example, you can use the function to assign profile XX to all translators who currently have profile YY.

Procedure

Importing the Default Translator Profiles

Call up transaction SLWA.

Choose Environment ® Translator Profiles.

Choose Extras ® Sample Profiles.

The screen Create Sample Translator Profiles appears.

To overwrite all translator profiles that already exist in this system, enter an X in the field Overwrite existing values.
Choose Execute.
Choose Back to return to the screen Translation Environment: Translator Profiles.

Here you can see that the system has created 14 different translator profiles.

To display the authorizations contained in a profile, select the respective profile and choose Details.
To display an overview of all profiles, along with the individual authorizations contained in them, choose Extras ® Overview.

Creating Your Own Translator Profiles

Call up transaction SLWA.

Choose Environment ® Translator Profiles.

Choose Create/Change.

Create/Change Translator Profile appears.

In the Translator profile field, enter a 2-digit name for your profile.

In the Description field, enter a short description for your profile.

In the table of areas and authorizations, enter an authorization value in the white column for each Area that you require. You can use F4 to display the authorization values that are available for each Area. You do not need to select a value for each area. For example, if you do not want this profile to contain any authorizations for the area of Package administration, leave area A5 blank The following areas and values are available:

Area (Abbreviation and Definition)	Value (Abbreviation and Definition)
A1 Language attributes administration	None Create/Change
A2 Translation graphs administration	00 None 01 Create/Change 02 Exception Package (All Languages)
A3 Object groups administration	None Create/Change
A4 Translator maintenance administration	None Create/Change
A5 Package administration	None Assign Assign/lock/unlock Assign/Lock/unlock (global)
A6 Automatic distribution administration	None Create/Change
A7 Language attributes administration	None Create/Change
S1 Language attributes administration	None Create/Change
T1 Proposal pool maintenance For more information on these authorizations, see Translator Status.	00 None 01 Junior 02 Senior 03 Advanced 04 Coordinator 05 Superuser
T2 Proposal pool automatic distribution	None Automatic/Lock
T3 Proposal pool worklists (authorizations for Proposal Pool Administration)	None Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
TS Statistics	None Complex statistics Create/Delete

Save your profile.

Repeat this procedure until you have created all the profiles you require.

To display an overview of all profiles you have created, along with the individual authorizations contained in them, choose Extras ® Overview.

Performing a Profile Swap

Call up transaction SLWA.

Choose Environment ® Translator Profiles.

Choose Extras ® Profile swap.

The screen Translator Profiles: Global Swap appears.

In the field Target language, enter the target language of the translators for which you want to swap profiles. If you want to perform the profile swap for all translators in the system (regardless of their target language), enter * in this field.

In the field Old profile, enter the name of the profile that you wish to swap.

In the field New profile, enter the name of the profile with which you want to replace the Old profile.

Choose Execute.

Result

Translator profiles are now available in the system. You can start to create translators, as you now have profiles that you can assign to them. For more information, see Maintaining Translators.