Locking Packages (SAP Library - Setting Up and Coordinating Translation (BC-DOC-TTL))

Locking Packages
Use

You can use this function to lock packages that are not relevant for translation. Locked packages do not appear in worklists and are not translated.

Prerequisites

The target language into which you will translate has been set up in the translation system.

To lock a package for one specific target language, your translator profile should contain authorization A5 with value 2 or higher.

To lock a package globally (for all target languages available in the system), your translator profile should contain authorization A5 with value 3.

Procedure

The default status of a package is Open.

Call up transaction SLWA.

Select your target language under the tab title Target language.

Choose the tab title Packages.

You first need to select the packages that you want to assign to a translator. For more information, see Selecting Packages.

You can now see the number of packages you have selected under Selection.

To lock the package(s) that you have selected for the target language that you chose, choose Lock from the application toolbar. To lock the package(s) that you have selected for all target languages in the system, choose Lock globally from the application toolbar.

The screen Lock Packages appears. The system displays the following information; you can click on the respective button to view the packages in question:

Number of already locked packages
Number of open packages
Number of packages already assigned to translators
Number of unknown packages

In the Lock reason field, enter why you are locking these packages.
You can now choose between the following options:

Lock All Selected Packages

The system locks all packages, regardless of whether they are already assigned to translators for this language.

Assign All Selected Unassigned Packages

The system only locks those packages that are not already assigned to translators for this language.

Result

The packages that you selected are now locked (either for the individual target language that you selected, or for all target languages defined in the system). The lines still to be processed in these objects will no longer appear in the translators' statistics. You will only be able to see statistics for these locked packages when you specifically call up statistics for Locked packages. Translators are no longer able to call up worklists for objects, which belong to these packages and which contain lines to be processed. If the packages you locked initially had status Open, they will now have status Locked.