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Procedure documentationTranslating External Questionnaire Names

 

Questionnaire managers create external questionnaire names for qualification questionnaires and evaluation questionnaires in the original language of the questionnaire. (The original language of a questionnaire is determined by the logon language of the user who first creates the questionnaire.) To enable the recipients of questionnaires to see external questionnaire names in other languages than the original language, you can translate them.

Prerequisites

At least one translation language must have been defined for the external questionnaire names that you want to translate. In your personal object worklist (POWL), you can see external questionnaire names for which the target language has one of the following statuses:

  • To Be Translated

  • In Translation

  • Translated

External questionnaire names that have been given the status Not Relevant for Translation are not displayed in the translation application and cannot be translated.

Procedure

To translate external questionnaire names, do the following:

  1. Depending on whether you want to translate external names of qualification or evaluation questionnaires, choose either Start of the navigation path Supplier Qualification Next navigation step Translate External Questionnaire Names End of the navigation path or Start of the navigation path Supplier Evaluation Next navigation step Translate External Questionnaire Names End of the navigation path.

  2. To translate an external questionnaire name, select it from the POWL. To find the names that you have to translate more easily, click Show Quick Criteria Maintenance and filter the list by the status To Be Translated.

  3. Select the target language into which you want to translate the external questionnaire name.

  4. Change the status of the target language from To Be Translated to In Translation.

    Note that the Status of All Translations remains To Be Translated or In Translation until translations for all target languages are available.

  5. Translate the external questionnaire name.

  6. When you have finished, set the Status of Translation for your target language to Translated.

Note Note

You can enter text in the Internal Note to communicate with the person who created the external questionnaire name. If the Internal Note already contains text, SAP recommends that you do not overwrite this text but add your text to the note. The system does not store previous versions of a note.

End of the note.

More Information

For general information about working with the POWL for external questionnaire names, such as personalizing, filtering, and sorting, see Working with the Personal Object Worklist.

Managing Questionnaires

Required Roles

You have been assigned the Translator (/SRMSMC/TRANSLATOR) role.

Required Business Functions

SLC, Supplier Qualification (Buy Side) (SMC_SUPPL_QUA_BFW_1)

SLC, Supplier Evaluation (SMC_SUPPL_EVAL_1)

Required Customizing Switches

To translate external questionnaire names and questionnaire introductions for supplier qualification or supplier evaluation, the following activities are relevant in Customizing for SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management:

Supplier Qualification

Start of the navigation path Sell Side Next navigation step Supplier Qualification Next navigation step Enable Translation of Texts for Supplier Communication End of the navigation path

Start of the navigation path Buy Side Next navigation step Supplier Qualification Next navigation step Basic Settings for Supplier Qualification Next navigation step Enable Translation of Texts for Supplier Communication End of the navigation path

Supplier Evaluation

Start of the navigation path Buy Side Next navigation step Supplier Evaluation Next navigation step Basic Settings for Supplier Evaluation Next navigation step Enable Translation of Texts for Appraiser Communication End of the navigation path