Portal Content Translation

The SAP NetWeaver Portal provides a process for translating the text of portal objects such as iViews, pages, worksets, roles, and systems. Multilingual object metadata for portal objects is stored in the database of the Portal Content Directory (PCD). If a property of a portal object has the type text attribute , it is marked as text and can be translated (for example, the name and description properties).

The translation process is supported by the Translation Worklist Coordination and Worklist Translation tools.

These can be accessed by the content administration role by navigating as follows:

•  Content Administration  Portal Content Translation   Translation Worklist Coordination 

  More information: Coordinating Translation Worklists

•  Content Administration  Portal Content Translation   Worklist Translation 

  More information: Translating Worklists

For information about adding new languages, which are not provided out-of-the-box by SAP NetWeaver Portal, see Defining Language Support in the Locale Service , as well as SAP Note 1013521 .

• Language Transport: Texts have been transported to the system in which translation is to take place.

  More information: Performing Language Transports .

• Permissions: To create and manage translation worklists, the translation coordinator must have at least read/write permission for the folder containing the relevant content. To open and work on a worklist, the translator must have read/write permission for the worklist and the content to be translated.

  More information: Portal Permissions

The following graphic shows the flow of the translation process for portal objects. The blue process steps belong to "Translation Worklist Coordination", and the orange steps to "Worklist Translation".