Defining Target Languages

Defining the languages into which you want to translate (that is, the target languages) is the first step in defining the translation environment in transaction Translation Administration (LXE_MASTER).

You can translate into any language offered here. You can also translate into a language that is not offered here by using the language key Z1 (Customer Reserve).

• The target languages must be installed and configured in the system. For more information, see the Implementation Considerations in section Preparing a System for Translation.

• You are defined as a coordinator for all languages **** in transaction LXE_MASTER.

• To define and maintain target languages, your translator profile must include the authorization object LANG with value 01.

• To create or delete client assignments to translation languages, your translator profile must include the authorization object LACL with value 01.

1. Call transaction LXE_MASTER.

2. On the Languages tab page, choose Translation Languages.

   The Translation Languages dialog box appears.

3. Choose Add Languages.

   The Language Selection dialog box appears.

4. Double-click the required target languages.

5. Choose Execute.

   You return to the Translation Languages dialog box, which now contains the target languages that you selected.

6. You now need to define a priority for each target language. This determines the order in which the target languages are processed during an evaluation.

   Select one or more target languages, choose Priority, and double-click a priority. Repeat for each target language until the Translation Languages dialog box reappears. If one of the target languages, such as English, serves as a source language for other target languages, we recommend that you give it priority Extremely High so that it is evaluated first and that you do not give any other target languages this priority.

   There are 7 different priorities to choose from. Make sure each target language has a different priority, or if you have more than 7 target languages, that the priorities are evenly distributed.

7. If your system has more than one server, you can define a default server for each target language. This determines the server on which the evaluation jobs run for each target language during an evaluation, so you can spread the background jobs evenly over all available servers. If the system has only one server, then you can skip this step.

   Select one or more target languages, choose Server, and double-click a server for each target language until the Translation Languages dialog box reappears.

8. Choose Save. A confirmation prompt appears, warning you that it is not possible to delete a target language after it has been installed in LXE_MASTER.

9. If you want translation to take place in the current client, select the Add as translation languages in current client checkbox and choose OK.

The system creates the languages that you selected as target languages.

The checkboxes in the Installed column of the Translation Languages dialog box are now selected for the target languages that you saved. You cannot deselect these checkboxes.

During an evaluation, the evaluation jobs run first for the target language(s) with Extremely High priority, then for the target language(s) with Very High priority, and so on.

If you defined servers in step 7, the evaluation jobs for a specific target language always run on the server defined for it here.

You can now continue with the next step for setting up the translation environment.