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Prerequisites

  • Appropriate translator profiles must be available. For more information, see Working with Translator Profiles .

  • Each translator you want to create in the translation environment must already have a system user in the system.

  • To create translators in LXE_MASTER, your translator profile must include the authorization object USER with the value 01 .

Context

You need to create translators in transaction LXE_MASTER so that you can assign them a translator profile to control what activities they can perform and so that you can assign collections to them. The translators can then start translating, by calling up a worklist of objects belonging to the collections assigned to them and creating proposals for the source texts in these objects.

You create a translator for one target language if they translate into a specific target language.

If a user needs to perform translation or coordination tasks for several, but not all target languages, you must create this user as a translator/coordinator for each individual target language in question.

If a coordinator needs to perform tasks for all languages, you create the user for target language **** (all target languages).

Caution

It is not possible to assign collections to a user that is created as a translator/coordinator for target language ****.

Only create a user for target language **** if they do absolutely no translation and purely coordinate.

For information on how to delete translators and obsolete translators (users defined as translators in transaction LXE_MASTER but for which the system user has already been deleted) and the consequences, see below under Result .

Procedure


  1. Call up transaction LXE_MASTER and on the Translators tab page, choose Maintain Translators (or select the Maintain Translators icon in the toolbar).

    The Target Language dialog box appears.

  2. Double-click the target language for which you want to create the translator. To create a coordinator for all target languages, double-click ****.

    The Translators dialog box appears.

  3. To create one new translator at a time, enter the translator's user name and choose F4 on the Profl. field next to the translator's user name to assign a translator profile to this user.

    A list of the available profiles appears. Double-click the profile that you require.

    Repeat this step for each translator that you need to create for this target language.

  4. To create multiple translators for one target language more quickly, proceed as follows:

    1. Create a list of user names for the translators you want to create and copy this list to the clipboard.

    2. In the Translators dialog box, choose Clipboard .

      The system inserts the translators' user names.

    3. Select the translators to whom you want to assign the same translator profile, and choose Profile . Double-click the profile you require from the list that appears.

      Repeat this step until all translators in this list have a translator profile assigned to their user.

  5. Choose Save

  6. Repeat this procedure for the next target language for which you want to create translators.

Results

The system creates the users as translators with the translator profiles that you assigned.

You can now assign collections to the translators , which enables them to call up statistics and worklists for objects belonging to these collections.

Deleting Translators

  1. Call transaction LXE_MASTER . and on the Translators tab page, choose Maintain Translators .

    The Target Language dialog box appears.

  2. Double-click the target language for which you want to delete the translator(s). To delete a coordinator for all target languages, double-click ****.

    The Translators dialog box appears, which lists the translators defined for this target language/for all languages.

  3. Select the translator(s) that you want to delete.

  4. Choose Delete.

  5. Choose Save.

    The system deletes both the translators and their collection assignments.

Deleting Obsolete Translators

  1. Call transaction LXE_MASTER and choose Start of the navigation path Edit Next navigation step Delete Obsolete Translators End of the navigation path.

    The Delete Translators dialog box appears listing any obsolete translators in the system. Obsolete translators are users defined as translators in transaction LXE_MASTER but for which the system user has already been deleted.

  2. Select the obsolete translation user(s) that you want to delete and choose Execute.

    The system deletes the obsolete translators and their collection assignments.

Caution

This function only checks system users in the current client. This means that if you translate in more than one client and have different system users in each client, this function is potentially dangerous and should be used with care: You could accidentally delete translators in LXE_MASTER for whom system users exist in a client that is not the current client.