Working with the Information Center (SAP Library - Setting Up and Coordinating Translation (BC-DOC-TTL))

Working with the Information Center

Use

The Information function in transaction SLWA provides you with a global overview of all the data maintained in the translation environment (transaction SLWA). This function enables you to answer questions such as the following:

For which target languages is user SMITH entered as a translator/coordinator?

Which translators have profile XL (Superuser for individual languages) assigned to them?
Which translator profiles allow translators/coordinators to lock packages globally?
Which target languages translate object group B_L1 (IMG)?

Integration

The Information function contains all the data maintained in the translation environment (transaction SLWA) and information on all runs that have taken place in the translation planner (transaction SLWB).

You can only use the Information Center for display purposes. It is not possible to maintain the translation environment via the Information function.

Prerequisites

Before you can analyze data in the Information Center, the translation environment must be set up for at least one target language, and at least one evaluation run.

Features

The table below shows you the areas of the translation system that you can analyze in the Information Center. You can display some areas according to several perspectives. For example, you can display Translators in the following ways:

All translators in the system are sorted according to the target language for which they were created.
All translators in the system listed alphabetically, along with the language for which they were created, and their translator profile. You can use this option to find users who are translators/coordinators for multiple languages.
All translators in the system are sorted according to their translator profile. You can use this option to find out which translators have a specific profile.

You can use the icons Plus and Minus to switch between display perspective.

Area	Display according to ...
Translators	Languages Alphabetic list of translators (including target language and translator profile information) Translator profiles
Translator profiles	All subauthorizations
Authorizations	Translator profiles
Locked packages	Language Alphabetic list of locked packages (including information on languages for which it is locked, and lock reason) Lock reason
Run numbers	Type (initial run, object list, evaluation) Date on which the run took place
Evaluations	Target language Worklist number
Object lists	Run number Original language of objects contained in object list
Automatic distribution (Object types in which automatic distribution is active during evaluations)	Target language Active/Inactive
Target languages	Alphabetic list of target languages (including information on the priority and server defined in transaction SLWB) Priority Priority and server Server
Package lists	Alphabetic list of package lists (including information on author and change date) Change date Author
Object group assignment	Language Alphabetic list of object group (including information on which languages translate them)
Package overview	Packages are sorted according to the first character of their name. Target languages are displayed (using their 1-character IDs) across the top of the screen. If a package is assigned for this language, it is marked with an X.

Activities

Call up transaction SLWA.

Choose Extras ® Information.

A dialog box appears listing the areas that you can analyze.

Double-click the area that you want to analyze. For example, to find out which translator profiles contain authorization A5 with value 3, double-click Authorizations.

Choose Plus or Minus to switch your view on the data.

Example

User JONES has left the company. You want to delete him in all instances where he was entered as a translator/coordinator in transaction SLWA. You first need to find out the target languages for which JONES was a translator/coordinator.

Call up transaction SLWA.
Choose Extras ® Information.
Double-click Translators from the list that appears.
Choose Plus once, so that the tree Translators appears.
Scroll down until you locate the node JONES in this alphabetical list.
Expand the JONES node to see the languages for which JONES was a translator/coordinator.