Source language

In the S_LANG field, enter the required source language for the scan.

Target language

In the T_LANG field, enter the target language for the scan.

Name of DEMS objects

Enter a text string in the 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 DESCRIPT field to document how you created the DEMS objects, for example.

Maximum number of source texts

In the NUMBER 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.

Domain to be scanned

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 DOMATYP contains the value *, and enter the 2-character ID of the domain in the DOMANAM field (e.g. BC for Basis).

To search in all domains of the proposal pool, make sure the fields DOMATYP and DOMANAM both contain the value *.

Status of proposals

If you want your scan to include source texts with proposals of all quality statuses, leave the default values in the fields MIN_STAT and MAX_STAT unchanged.

To restrict the scan to source texts with proposals of a specific quality status range, use the MIN_STAT and MAX_STAT fields to specify your lower and upper limits.

For example, if you want to include only source texts with proposals of quality status B (to check the work of beginner translators, for example), choose F4 on the MIN_STAT field and select status B, then choose F4 on the MAX_STAT field and select status B again. The system enters the lower and upper numeric values of quality status B respectively.

Usage counters

We recommend that you leave the default entries unchanged in the fields MIN_USAG and MAX_USAG.

User name

If you want the DEMS objects to contain source texts with proposals created / changed by a specific user, you have the following options:

·         To find proposals created by a specific user, enter his / her user name in the F_NAME field and leave the L_NAME field blank.

·         To find proposals created by a specific user, as well as proposals last changed by this user (these proposals may have a different creator), leave the F_NAME field blank and enter his / her user name in the L_NAME field.

Date range

If you want the DEMS objects to contain source texts with proposals created / changed within a specific date range, you have the following options:

·         To find proposals created within a specific date range, enter the start date in the MIN_F_DA field and the end date in the MAX_F_DA field and leave the default values unchanged in the MIN_L_DA and MAX_L_DA fields.

·         To find proposals created within a specific date range, as well as proposals last changed within a specific date range (these proposals may have been created outside the date range), leave the default values unchanged in the MIN_F_DA and MAX_F_DA fields and enter the start date in the MIN_L_DA field and the end date in the MAX_L_DA field.

Types of proposals

You can exclude exceptions from your scan, or scan exceptions only.

·         To exclude exceptions from the scan, make sure the NORMAL field contains the value X and the EXCEPT field is blank.

·         To scan exceptions only, make sure the NORMAL field is blank and the EXCEPT field contains the value X.

Create object list

If you enter the value X in the CREA_OL field, the system creates an object list that contains DEMS objects created in the run.

This enables you to create worklists for the DEMS objects by evaluating this object list. To do this, you first need to create a graph for collection $TMP and then activate it for the target languages that will translate the DEMS objects.

However, you are not obliged to create worklists for DEMS objects. For other ways of accessing the DEMS objects for processing, see Processing DEMS Objects for Quality Assurance.

Schedule top text job in the background

Ensure the BATCH field contains the value X so that the job to create the top texts runs in the background.