Scanning for a Specific Source/Target Text String

Prerequisites

See the Prerequisites section in DEMS Objects for Quality Assurance .

Context

You can perform a scan to find the following:

A specific source text string

For example, you want to check all instances of a specific source text string to verify that it has been translated correctly and consistently.
A specific target text string

For example, you want to find all instances where a specific translation has been used, regardless of what the source text is.
A specific source text and target text string

For example, you only want to find instances where a specific source text string has been translated in a particular way.

You can perform this scan in two different ways:

Scan the objects in a specific object list for a specific source and/or target text string.
Scan the entire proposal pool (or a domain in the proposal pool) for a specific language combination for a specific source and/or target text string.

Procedure

Call transaction LXE_MASTER.
To scan for text strings in the objects in a specific object list, choose DEMS Objects Text Search According to Object List .

To scan for text strings in the entire proposal pool, choose DEMS Objects Text Search In Proposal Pool .

Enter your selection criteria for the scan as follows:

Name of DEMS objects	In the Object Name field, enter a text string that will help you recognize the DEMS objects when you call them in transaction SE63.
Description	You can enter a description of up to 40 characters in the Description field to document how you created the DEMS objects, for example.
Source language	In the Source Language field, enter the required source language for the text scan.
Target language	In the Target Language field, enter the target language for the text scan.
Object list (Only available if you perform the Object List scan)	Choose F4 on the Object List field, and select the object list that contains the objects for which you want to perform the text scan.
Source text	In the Source Text field, enter the source text string that you want to find. To search generically, ensure that you enter a * at the start and end of the string. If you do not want to scan according to source text, ensure that this field contains the default value *.
Target text	In the Target Text field, enter the target text string that you want to find. To search generically, ensure that you enter a * at the start and end of the string. If you do not want to scan according to target text, ensure that this field contains the default value *.
Case-sensitive source text scan	We recommend that you leave the Ignore Upper-/Lowercase (Srce) field blank in order to perform a case-sensitive scan, which is less performance-intensive. You can still search in a case-sensitive manner, by leaving this field blank and entering the source text minus its first letter in the S_LANG field. For example uftrag would enable you to find all source texts that contain either the string Auftrag or the string auftrag . Similarly, rder would enable you to find all source texts that contained either the string Order or the string order.
Case-sensitive target text scan	We recommend that you leave the Ignore Upper-/Lowercase (Trgt) field blank in order to perform a case-sensitive scan, which is less performance-intensive. You can still search in a case-sensitive manner, by leaving this field blank and entering the target text minus its first letter in the T_LANG field. For example uftrag would enable you to find all target texts that have a proposal containing either the string Auftrag or the string auftrag . Similarly, rder would enable you to find all target texts that have a proposal containing either the string Order or the string order.
Maximum number of source texts	In the Number of Texts field, you can specify a limit to how many source texts are contained in the DEMS objects produced by the scan. If you want the scan to find all source texts with proposals that match your selection criteria, enter a suitably high number here.
Generate object list	If you enter the value X in the Generate Object List field, the system creates an object list that contains the DEMS objects created in the run. This enables you to create worklists for the top texts by evaluating this object list. To do this, you first need to create a graph for collection SAP_TRANSLATION_DEMS and then activate it for the target language that will process the DEMS objects.
Generate local list	If you enter the value X in the Generate Local List field, the system creates a local list that contains the DEMS objects created in the run. For more information on accessing the local list, see the Local List documentation.
Domain to be scanned (Only available if you perform the Proposal Pool scan)	If you scan the proposal pool, you can restrict the scan to search only in the application standards and/or exceptions created in a specific domain. To do this, make sure the field Domain Type contains the value , choose F4 on the Domain field, and double-click the domain in which you want to scan. To search in all domains of the proposal pool, make sure the fields Domain Type and Domain both contain the value .
Types of proposals (Only available if you perform the Proposal Pool scan)	You can exclude exceptions from your scan, or scan exceptions only. To exclude exceptions from the scan, make sure the Normal Proposals field contains the value X and the Exceptions field is blank To scan exceptions only, make sure the Normal Proposals field is blank and the Exceptions field contains the value X
Schedule top text job in the background	Ensure the Start in Background field contains the value X so that the job to create the top texts runs in the background.

Choose (F8) and schedule the job to run in the background.

Results

Depending on the scan method, the system scans the objects in the object list specified by you and creates translation objects in an object list. If you chose to scan the proposal pool then the system creates DEMS objects in an object list in accordance with your selection criteria.

You can now trigger processing of these DEMS objects. For more information, see Processing DEMS Objects for Quality Assurance .

Example

You have found out that since the start of the translation project, the German text Vertrag has been incorrectly translated into English as contract . In the context of your development, the correct English translation is policy . You want to clean up the entire proposal pool so that this problem is solved once and for all. The first step is to find all German source texts containing the string Vertrag or vertrag that have a proposal containing the string Contract or contract .

Call transaction LXE_MASTER.
Choose DEMS Objects Text Search In Proposal Pool .

Enter your selection criteria for the scan as follows:

Field	Input
Object Name	CONTRACT_EN
Description	DE ertrag EN ontract
Source Language	deDE
Target Language	enUS
Source Text	ertr Why only ertr as the search string and not ertrag? Don't forget that the plural of Vertrag is Verträge! A suitable example in English would be criterion and criteria.
Target Text	ontract
Ignore Upper-/Lowercase (Srce)	Leave blank
Ignore Upper-Lowercase (Trgt)	Leave blank
Number of Texts	Enter a suitably high value to ensure that all instances are included in the DEMS objects
Domain Type	*
Domain	*
Normal Proposals	X
Exceptions	X
Generate Object List	X
BATCH	X

Choose (F8) and schedule the job to run in the background.