Creating an Evaluation Run (SAP Library - Setting Up and Coordinating Translation (BC-DOC-TTL))

Creating an Evaluation Run

Use

An evaluation run provides you with worklists and statistics for all target languages defined in the system and for the objects contained in the object list used in the evaluation.

You can run an evaluation in a variety of ways:

Without deletion: the evaluation run simply updates the previous worklists in the system, by adding new objects and updating the status of objects in the previous worklists.

With deletion: the evaluation run firstly deletes all previous worklists and creates a new worklist on the basis of the new object list that it evaluates. This means the new worklist will only contain the objects available in the object list that you evaluate. If you decide to remove objects from the worklist translation process (for example by locking an object group from translation for a specific target language), this change will only become effective in the worklist itself if you run the evaluation with deletion.

With automatic distribution: flagged/unique/best proposals (depending on the setting made in transaction STMA) are distributed in new and modified texts for the object types defined in transaction SLWA. For more information, see Automatic Distribution During Evaluations.

Prerequisites

You can only run an evaluation if an object list already exists. For more information, see Creating Object Lists.

If you want to run an evaluation with automatic distribution, you need to define the object types and activate distribution. For more information, see:

Setting Object Types for Automatic Distribution

Defining Distribution Parameters

Procedure

Call up transaction SLWB.

Choose the tab title Evaluation

Choose Create.

The dialog box Worklist Number and Explanatory Text appears.

Choose F4 on the field Object list for evaluation and select the object list that you wish to evaluate from the dialog box that appears. The system now uses this object list as the basis for the evaluation.

In the field Worklist number, enter the number of the worklist that you want this evaluation to create. The standard worklist number is 1. If you do not wish to create a standard worklist, you can enter a different number, for example, if you have two different translation projects in the same system.

In the Description field, enter a description for the evaluation run for reference purposes.

If you only want to run an evaluation for test purposes (for example, to calculate how long an evaluation takes to run) activate Test run (do not change worklists). The system then evaluates the objects, but does not update the worklists or statistics.

If you want to run an evaluation without deletion, activate Write the worklists. The system then only performs inserts and updates to the worklists, based on the object list used for the evaluation. The system does not, however, delete any objects from the worklists.

If you want to run an evaluation with deletion, activate Write worklists and delete beforehand. The system then deletes and rebuilds the worklist on the basis of the objects in the object list you are evaluating. The system deletes all objects from the worklists and statistics, except those contained in the object list. Objects that are not included in the object list will then no longer be available in the worklists.

If you want to run an evaluation with distribution, activate Automatic distribution. The system then runs automatic distribution during the evaluation, based on the object types you have defined for automatic distribution in transaction SLWA and the parameters you specified in transaction STMA.

Choose Continue. You can now schedule the evaluation run as a background job.
Choose Default server to ensure that the jobs for each target language run on the server you defined in Settings II.

Result

Once the evaluation run has finished successfully, worklists and statistics are available for all target languages in the system, and translation can commence.