Scanning for Multiple Proposals for the Same Source Text

Prerequisites

See the Prerequisites section in DEMS Objects for Quality Assurance .

Context

You can scan the proposal pool to find cases where multiple proposals exist for the same source text. For example, where more than 5 proposals exist in the proposal pool for one specific source text.

When you process the resulting DEMS objects, you can check whether it would be possible to standardize the translations and reduce the number of proposals in the proposal pool. This saves space on the database and improves performance, as well as increasing the consistency of the translations.

Deleting unwanted proposals can, however, cause modified lines. Read the Process Flow and Example sections carefully in DEMS Objects for Quality Assurance before you begin.

There are two ways of performing this scan:

Scan for multiple proposals in the proposal pool

Here "proposals" means system standards, application standards, and abbreviations.
Scan for multiple exceptions

Exceptions are stored differently in the proposal pool, so you need to run a different scan to find multiple exceptions for the same source text.

Procedure

Call transaction LXE_MASTER.
If you want to search for multiple proposals, choose DEMS Objects PP Analysis Multiple Translation .

If you want to search for multiple exceptions, choose DEMS Objects PP Analysis Multiple Exceptions .

Define the criteria for your scan as follows:

Source language	In the Source Language field, enter the required source language for the scan.
Target language	In the Target Language field, enter the target language for the scan.
Name of DEMS objects	Enter a text string in the Object Name field that will help you recognize the DEMS objects when you call them up in transaction SE63.
Description of DEMS objects	You can enter a description of up to 40 characters in the Description field to document how you created the DEMS objects, for example.
Minimum number of proposals	Enter the minimum number of proposals in the Minimum Frequency field. For example, if you only want the DEMS objects to contain source texts that have five or more proposals for this target language, enter 5 in this field.
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 instances where there are multiple proposals for the source text, set this number to a suitably high value.
Domain to be scanned	You can scan the entire proposal pool, or you can restrict the scan to search only in the application standards / exceptions created in a specific domain. To do this, make sure the field Domain Type contains the value , and enter the 2-character ID for the domain in which you want to scan in the Domain field (for example, SD for Sales and Distribution). To search in all domains of the proposal pool, make sure the fields Domain Type and Domain both contain the value .
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

The system scans the proposal pool and creates DEMS objects in accordance with your selection criteria. The DEMS objects contain source texts in the requested source language for which multiple proposals exist in the requested target language.

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

Example

You want to find any source texts for which three or more exceptions exist in the domain Basis (BC) in the proposal pool for source language German and target language English.

To run the scan, proceed as follows:

Call transaction LXE_MASTER.
Choose DEMS Objects PP Analysis Multiple Exceptions .

Enter your selection criteria for the scan as follows:

Field	Input
Source Language	deDE
Target Language	enUS
Object Name	BC_EXCEPTN
Description	3 or more exceptions in BC for DE->EN
Minimum Frequency	3
Number of Objects	Enter a suitably high value to ensure that all instances are included in the DEMS objects
Domain Type	*
Domain	BC
Start in Background	X

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