Translator Profiles

Definition

A translator profile is a group of specific authorizations for activities relevant to translation. The translator profile that is assigned to your user in transaction LXE_MASTER determines the translation activities that you can perform.

Example

For translators, the translator profile determines the quality statuses that they can assign to the proposals that they create while they translate short texts.
For translation coordinators, the translator profile determines more complex activities such as the languages for which they can display the statistics and whether they can assign collections or not.

Note

Users with the authorization profile SAP_ALL can perform all translation activities without having to be created as a translator or having a translator profile assigned to their user.

Integration

When you create a translator in the translation environment, you assign a translator profile to the translator.

A number of sample profiles are delivered by SAP which you can activate in transaction LXE_MASTER by choosing Start of the navigation path Settings Next navigation step Translator Profiles Activate Standard Profiles End of the navigation path .

The sample profiles are as follows:

Translator Profile	Purpose
AA Display User	This translator profile is empty. If you want to create a dummy translator to whom you assign collections to use as a template for statistics display or further collection assignment, then choose this translator profile.
TG New Translator	This profile is designed for new translators and allows them to assign only quality status X and B to the proposals that they create.
TM External Translator and TN Inhouse Translator	These profiles contain identical authorizations and enable translators to assign quality status, X, B, and S to the proposals that they create.

TR External Translator (Advanced) and TS Inhouse Translator (Advanced)	These profiles contain identical authorizations and enable translators to assign all possible quality statuses to the proposals that they create.

VG External Coordinator I	This profile enables translation coordinators to assign all possible quality statuses to the proposals that they create, and display and update the statistics of other translators.
VJ External Coordinator II	This profile contains the same authorizations as profile VG , as well as allowing coordinators to assign collections to translators in their translator group, providing that those collections are already assigned to their user. Recommendation You only need to use profiles VG and VJ for target languages where more than one external translation agency is used. If you are working with purely internal translation resources, then assign profile VK or above to translation coordinators.
VK Inhouse Coordinator	This profile contains the same authorizations as profile VG , as well as allowing coordinators to assign all relevant collections to translators for their target language. In addition, VK coordinator can create translators for their target language and display the statistics of other target languages. They can call up worklists for collections that are not assigned to them and call up objects in a worklist that are already reserved in another translator's worklist.
XT Super Coordinator	This profile contains the same authorizations as profile VK , as well as allowing coordinators to define translation graphs, assign collections to translation graphs, maintain distribution parameters, and create translator teams and groups. They can create translators for any target language, and assign any collections. They can call up worklists according to object lists and transports (on-the-fly translation) and use transaction TPMO to create versions, and view the performance data of all translators.
XX Super User	Contains all authorizations for all translation activities.

Note

For an overview of which authorizations are currently assigned to which standard SAP translator profile, call up transaction LXE_MASTER. On the Translators tab page, choose Translator Profiles and expand each profile to see the authorizations that they contain.

You can add authorizations to, or remove authorizations from, these sample translator profiles. You can also create new translator profiles. For more information, see Working with Translator Profiles .