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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, you can find source texts for which more than 5 proposals exist in the proposal pool.

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 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, domain standards, and exceptions.

  • Scan for multiple exceptions

    This report enables you to scan for exceptions only.

Procedure

  1. Call transaction LXE_MASTER.
  2. If you want to search for multiple proposals, choose Start of the navigation path DEMS Objects Next navigation step PP Analysis Next navigation step Multiple Translation End of the navigation path.

    If you want to search for multiple exceptions only, choose Start of the navigation path DEMS Objects Next navigation step PP Analysis Next navigation step Multiple Exceptions End of the navigation path.

  3. 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 domain standards and exceptions in a specific domain. To do this, use the input help in the Domain field to enter the 2-character ID for the domain in which you want to scan (for example, SD for Sales and Distribution).

    To search in all domains of the proposal pool, make sure the Domain field contains the value *.
  4. Schedule the job to run in the background.

Results

The report 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.

If you chose Start of the navigation path DEMS Objects Next navigation step PP Analysis Next navigation step Multiple Translation End of the navigation path, PP_PP is included in the technical name of each DEMS object.

If you chose Start of the navigation path DEMS Objects Next navigation step PP Analysis Next navigation step Multiple Exceptions End of the navigation path, PP_EXC is included in the technical name of each DEMS object.

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

Example

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

To run the report, proceed as follows:

  1. Call transaction LXE_MASTER.

  2. Choose Start of the navigation path DEMS Objects Next navigation step PP Analysis Next navigation step Multiple Exceptions End of the navigation path.

  3. 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 Texts

    Enter a suitably high value to ensure that all instances are included in the DEMS objects

    Domain

    BC

  4. Schedule the job to run in the background.