Translating in the Short Text Editor

The system opens the short text editor automatically when you call up a short text object for translation. While translating in the short text editor, you can maintain the proposal pool and therefore reuse translations which are offered as the best proposal , or automatically distributed . The short text editor settings enable you to determine how short text lines are displayed and processed.

1. Call up a short text object for translation.

   If you are translating using a worklist , you can call up short text objects individually by double-clicking them, or you can process all objects of a specific short text object type one after the other by starting sequential processing. You can also call up objects directly in transaction SE63.

2. Check that the object you have called up is assigned to the correct domain. This information is included in the title bar.

   For more information on the assignment of collections to a domain, see Creating and Renewing the Domain Assignment .

3. Edit the lines to be translated, and maintain the proposal pool if you have decided to use it.

   Depending on the translation status and whether a best proposal or valid proposals exist in the proposal pool for the source text, proceed as follows:

   • If the status of the translation line is new and no best proposal is displayed under the translation line, enter a translation in the translation line and choose Save . Branch to the proposal pool and select an existing proposal, or create a proposal for your translation.

     If you already know that you want to save your translation in the proposal pool with quality status S, by selecting the icon you can create the proposal automatically which saves you time. You require authorization to create proposals with quality status S to use this function. For more information on authorizations, see Translator Profiles .

   • If the status of the translation line is new and a best proposal exists that is a correct translation of your source text, copy this best proposal into the translation line by double-clicking it. If the best proposal is not a correct translation of your source text, branch to the proposal pool to delete the proposal and create a new one.

   • If the status of the translation line is modified and a translation exists that does not agree with the best proposal, you have two options:

     • If the best proposal is the correct translation, copy it to the translation line by double-clicking it.

     • If you want to keep the current translation, branch to the proposal pool to delete the proposal and create the correct translation as a new proposal.

     The function in the toolbar enables you to create all of the translations in all of the modified lines in the object as system standards with quality status S in the proposal pool. For more information on this function, see Functions in the Short Text Editor and read the section "System Standards With Status S for All Modified Lines".

   Note

   Once a translation and a proposal exist for a source text, the text line has the status Translated . The system assigns the status Modified to all translation lines whose contents do not match valid proposals in the proposal pool. Lines with this status are highlighted in yellow until you perform appropriate activities in the proposal pool. You only have to enter a translation in the translation line, and then save, for the translation of the object in question to be displayed in the system after you have logged onto the system in the translation language.

4. Choose Save to save your work.

Once all of the texts in the short text object have been translated, you can proceed to the next short text object you need to translate. If you cannot translate all of the texts in the short text object immediately, you can return to the object later.

Short Text Editor

Functions in the Short Text Editor

Proposal Pool