Maintaining Term Status for Target Language Terms (SAP Library - Terminology and Glossary in SAPterm (BC-DOC-TER))

Maintaining Term Status for Target Language Terms

Use

Superusers wishing to maintain the status of their translations of a source term need to follow a different procedure for maintaining term status in SAPterm.

Prerequisites

To maintain the status of a term, you need superuser authorization for your target language.

Procedure

Call up transaction STERM

Now set your target language as the Source language and your source language as the Target language

Enter the term and choose Find. Alternatively, use Selection criteria to call up a number of terms based on your requirements (for example, all terms from a specific component with status 1 and 2).

The results list appears containing all terms found.

Choose Edit ® Display status.

The status of the terms is displayed as follows in the results list.

– This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Status 1 (new)

– This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Status 2 (to be checked)

– This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Status 3 (released)

Choose Edit ® Maintain status to activate the maintenance mode.

To change the status of a term, click on the traffic light icon.

Note

To release all the terms in this list in one step, choose Edit ® Release all entries.

To reset the status of all terms in one step choose Edit ® Revoke release for all entries.

Result

The status changes as follows:

This graphic is explained in the accompanying text ®

Note

If a glossary entry exists for a term, it is not possible to reset this term to status 2 after this term has been set to status 3.

Once you have changed the status of a status 1 term, you cannot change the status of this term back to New.

For more information on deleting terms in your target language, see Deleting Target Language Terms.