Maintaining Translators 

Use

Translator maintenance enables you to determine which activities a user can perform in the translation system. Furthermore, you can assign collections to translators to distribute the translation workload.

You can create translators for specific target languages, or for all target languages. The former option is useful for creating translators who wish to translate into specific target languages, whereas the latter option is useful for creating coordinators who need to perform tasks for all target languages.

If a user needs to perform translation and/or coordination tasks for several, but not all target languages, you must create this user as a translator/coordinator for each individual target language in question. If a translator needs to perform tasks for all languages, you must create him or her for the language ****.

A translator’s authorizations are determined by the role assigned to his or her system user. The rights granted to the system user can be restricted again by assigning different translator profiles. Each translator can have just one profile per target language.

Each translator can be assigned to one translator team, and one translator group.

The translator team is used to determine which translators work together. You can create a translation coordinator, for example, so that he or she can only assign collections to translators who are members of the same team.

The translator group is used to determine which translators belong together from a billing perspective. A coordinator with the appropriate authorizations, for example, can view the performance data of translators belonging to his or her group, but cannot view the performance data of translators assigned to other groups.

Prerequisites

·         You must create appropriate profiles before you can create translators. For more information, see Creating Translator Profiles.

·         Each translator you want to create in the translation environment must already have a system user in the system. Otherwise, an error message is displayed informing you that the user does not exist in the system. System users are created using transaction SU01.

·         Your translator profile must include the authorization object USER with the value 01.

·         If you want to assign translator groups and teams, your translator profile must have the authorization objects USTE and USTG, both with the value 01.

Activities

Create translators for specific target languages

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       1.      Call transaction LXE_MASTER.

       2.      On the Translators tab page, choose Translators.

The Target Language selection screen appears.

       3.      Select the target language for which you want to create the translator.

This takes you to the Translators dialog box. The selected language is displayed.

       4.      If you only want to create one new translator, enter the translator’s user name and assign a profile, translator team, and translator group.

By choosing the Translators pushbutton, you access the Translators dialog box. It enables you to use different criteria to select any of the system users already defined as translators in the system.

       5.      If you want to create several translators for one target language, proceed as follows:

                            a.      Create a list of user names for the translators you want to create. You must enter just one user name per line. This character string is case-sensitive.

                            b.      Copy the list of user names to the clipboard by choosing CTRL + C.

                            c.      Copy the list to the Translators dialog box by choosing the Clipboard pushbutton.

                            d.      Select the translators to whom you want to assign the same translator profile, and then assign the profile by choosing the Profile pushbutton.

                            e.      Select the translators you want to assign to the same translator team, and then assign the translator team by choosing the Team pushbutton.

                              f.      Select the translators you want to assign to the same translator group, and then assign the translator group by choosing the Group pushbutton.

       6.      Save.

You return to the Translators tab page.

Create translators for all target languages

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       1.      Call transaction LXE_MASTER.

       2.      On the Translators tab page, choose Translators.

The Target Language selection screen appears.

       3.      Select the language ****.

This takes you to the Translators dialog box.

       4.      Proceed as described in the section Create translators for specific target languages as of step 4.

Delete translators

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       1.      Call transaction LXE_MASTER.

       2.      On the Translators tab page, choose Translators.

The Target Language selection screen appears.

       3.      Choose the translation language in question. If you want to delete a translator for all languages, select ****.

This takes you to the Translators dialog box. It contains a list of all translators defined for the target language, or for all target languages.

       4.      Select the translator or translators you want to delete.

       5.      Choose the Delete icon.

Result

The system now recognizes the users as translators with certain rights. You can assign collections to the translators, who can then translate them in transaction SE63.

The system no longer recognizes deleted translators as translators. The collection assignments no longer exist, and the translators cannot work in transaction SE63 any longer.

See also:

Checking a Translator’s Collection Assignments

Assigning Collections to a Translator

Deleting Collection Assignments for a Translator