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The Translation Planner enables you to create worklists of objects that are relevant for your translation project. You do this by running an evaluation. Translators can then call up their part of the worklist (on the basis of the packages assigned to them) and translate the objects quickly and efficiently. The evaluation also produces translation statistics which translators and coordinators can use to monitor their personal/overall progress during the translation project.

This table gives you a brief outline of the three main steps that you need to carry out to produce worklists in the Translation Planner.

Initial Run

An initial run resets all temporary tables used within the translation environment. You only need to schedule an initial run once, at the start of your translation project, and before you create an object list and run an evaluation. For more information, see Scheduling an Initial Run.

Object List Run

After you have executed the initial run, you create an object list, which should contain all the objects that are relevant for your translation project. You need to create a new object list each time new, translation-relevant objects are transported to / created in the translation system.

You can create object lists according to the following criteria:

  • A specific set of object types and packages
  • All object types and packages (complete system)
  • A specific transport request
  • A generic set of transport requests

For more information, see Object Lists.

Evaluation Run

Once an up-to-date object list is available, you then need to evaluate it. The evaluation run analyzes the objects in the object lists. The evaluation run results in language-specific worklists and worklist statistics for all target languages.

You can schedule the evaluation to run directly after the creation of the object list, or you can choose to run the evaluation separately, once the object list is created.

You can run an evaluation in a variety of ways:

  • Without deletion: the evaluation run simply updates the previous worklists in the system
  • 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.
  • 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 Evaluations.

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