TMS Admin Guide

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Administrator Guide
SDL Translation
Management System 2011
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
About SDL TMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
Introducing the SDL TMS System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
Supported File Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4
Legacy Filters (ITD files) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4
Studio filters (SDL XLIFF files) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-7
About Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2
Setting Up Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3
Setting up your own root . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3
Organizations Overview Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4
Adding Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6
Adding a New Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6
Configuring TMS to Use Directory Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8
Editing Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10
Activating and Deactivating Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11
Deleting Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12
About Users and Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
Users & Groups Overview Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
Setting up Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
Users Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
Adding Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5
Editing Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13
Deleting Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-15
Setting up Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-15
Groups Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-16
Adding Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-17
Setting Group Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-19
Editing Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-30
Deleting Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-31
About Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
Languages Overview Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
Setting up Language Pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4
Language Pairs Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4
Adding Language Pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5
Editing Language Pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7
Deleting Language Pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7
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Setting up Language Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8
Language Groups Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8
Adding Language Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9
Editing Language Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10
Deleting Language Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-11
About Translation Memories (TMs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2
TMs and TM Sequences Overview Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2
Setting up Translation Memories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3
TMs Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3
Adding and Associating Translation Memories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5
Editing Translation Memories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9
Deleting Translation Memories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-10
Setting up Translation Memory Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-11
Adding a Translation Memory Attribute Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-11
Editing a Translation Memory Attribute Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-13
Setting up Translation Memory Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-13
TM Sequences Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-13
Adding Translation Memory Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-15
Editing Translation Memory Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-17
Deleting Translation Memory Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-18
Importing and Exporting TM Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-18
Importing Translation Memory Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-18
Exporting & Downloading Translation Memory Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-19
How to Display a TM on the TMs/Edit Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-19
How to Download TM Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-20
How to Schedule TM Exports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-20
How to Download Exported TM Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-20
How to Import Data into a TM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-20
About Terminology Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2
Terminology Overview Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2
About Terminology Caching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3
How the Cache is Used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3
Clearing the Cache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3
Setting up Terminology Caching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4
Setting up Terminology Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4
Terminology Databases Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4
Associating Terminology Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-5
Editing Terminology Database Associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7
Deleting Terminology Database Associations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7
How to Import Data into a Terminology Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8
Clear the Terminology Cache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9
Change the Cache Clearance Frequency Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9
Clear the Terminology Cache for a Terminology Database . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9
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Setting up Terminology Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-10
Terminology Sequences Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-10
Adding Terminology Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-11
Editing Terminology Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-12
Deleting Terminology Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13
About Workflows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2
Workflow Overview Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2
Additional Deliverables Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-3
Setting Up Workflow Stages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-4
Workflow Stages Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-4
Adding Workflow Stages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-6
Adding a System Workflow Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13
Interface Types for System Workflow Stages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-15
Editing Workflow Stages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-23
Deleting Workflow Stages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-24
Setting up Workflow Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-25
Workflow Templates Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-25
Adding Workflow Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-26
SDL TMS Default Workflow Stages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-29
Editing Workflow Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-37
Deleting Workflow Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-38
Setting up Workflows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-38
Workflows Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-39
Adding Workflows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-40
Assigning Users and Groups to Workflow Stages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-42
Assigning Vendors to Workflow Stages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-42
Working in the Workflow-name - Assign Users To All Languages Screen 7-42
Working in the Workflow-name - Assign Users (Language Pair) Screen 7-44
Editing Workflows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-46
Deleting Workflows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-48
About Costing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-2
Costing Overview Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-2
Setting up a Cost Formula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-3
Cost Formulas Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-3
Adding a Cost Formula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-5
Editing a Cost Formula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-7
Deleting Cost Formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-8
Setting up a Cost Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-9
Cost Variables Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-10
Adding a Cost Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-11
Editing a Cost Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-13
Deleting Cost Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-14
Setting up a Cost Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-14
Cost Matrices Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-15
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Adding a Cost Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-16
Editing a Cost Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-18
Deleting Cost Matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-19
Default Cost Variables and Cost Formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-20
About Content Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2
Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2
Supporting Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2
Content Types Overview Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-3
Adding Content Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-5
Editing Content Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-9
About Vendors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-2
About Vendor Workflows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-2
About Vendor Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-2
Setting up Vendors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-4
Vendors Overview Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-5
Setting up a Vendor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-5
Adding a Vendor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-6
Editing Vendors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-10
Deleting Vendors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-11
Vendor User Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-11
About Resources and Reference Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-2
Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-2
Reference Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-2
Setting up Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-3
Resource Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-3
Resources Overview Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-4
Adding Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-6
Editing Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-7
Deleting Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-9
SDL TMS Default Resource Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-9
Resource Files: Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-10
Resource Files: Broker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-11
Resource Files: Pre-processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-11
Resource Files: Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-12
Resource Files: Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-12
About Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-2
Configurations Overview Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-2
Setting up Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-4
Adding Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-4
Editing Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-13
Deleting Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-13
About Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-2
User Defined Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-2
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Who can Create Metadata Fields? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-2
Completing and Viewing Metadata Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-3
Metadata Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-3
User Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-3
Job Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-4
Job Language Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-5
Project Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-6
Item Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-6
Item Location Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-7
Create New Project Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-7
Translation Memory Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-7
Setting Up Metadata Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-7
How to Create a Metadata Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-8
How to Create a Picklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-10
How to Edit a Metadata Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-11
How to Delete a Metadata Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-11
Archiving Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13-12
About QA Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-2
QA Models Provided in SDL TMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-2
Accessing QA Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-5
The QA Models Overview Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-6
Setting up QA Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-7
QA Models/Add and QA Models/Edit Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-7
Adding a QA Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-11
Editing or Deleting a QA Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14-13
How to Use One of the QA Models Provided in SDL TMS . . . . . . . . . . . 14-13
About System Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-2
System Overview Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-2
SDL TMS Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-3
Settings Overview Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-4
SDL TMS Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-8
Monitoring Plugins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-9
Monitoring and Maintaining the Workflow Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-11
Mailer Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-12
Archiver Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-15
Logger Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-18
Services/Workload Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-19
Updating Workflow Stages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-19
Queued Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-20
Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-22
Impersonate Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-25
TM Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-26
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Message Queue Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-27
System Messages and Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-2
Add QA Checks to Your Workflows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2
QA Check Broker Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2
How QA Checks Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3
QA Check Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3
Adding QA Checks to Your Workflows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-4
About ANL Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-2
XML Extract Options Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-2
Creating an ANL file in SDLX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-5
About Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-10
Creating Expressions for an XML Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-12
The Additional Deliverables Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-4
Additional Deliverables Workflow Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-4
How to Set Up The Additional Deliverables Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-6
How the Additional Deliverables Workflow Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-7
Implementing the Additional Deliverables Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-8
Mapping a TMS Workflow to your Business Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-2
Mapping TMS Languages to Passolo Locales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-3
Mapping TMS Match Bands to Passolo Match Scores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-4
Creating a Suitable Software Localization Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-4
Creating a single-purpose TMS Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-5
Creating a Multi-purpose TMS Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-7
Automatically updating Terminology Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-8
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INTRODUCING SDL
TRANSLATION MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM
This chapter introduces the SDL TMS Administrator Guide
and provides an overview of the SDL Translation Management
System (TMS) product and the system architecture. Sections
include:
C About SDL TMS
C Introducing the SDL TMS System
C Supported File Formats
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1 About SDL TMS
ABOUT SDL TMS
SDL TMS supports the entire localization process, from project creation to final delivery of localized
information. It aligns all participants in the localization supply chain into a tightly-integrated and
more productive collaborative team. SDL TMS enhances the work of project managers, translators,
editors, quality assurance specialists, reviewers, publishing specialists and vendors.
It integrates seamlessly with your existing SDL translation tools and enables you to leverage and re-
use the knowledge in your translation memories.
The system is based on a three layer client-server architecture and provides server-based translation
memory and terminology capability to fulfill translation and terminology requirements in both
intranet and Internet environments.
Introducing the SDL TMS System
The SDL TMS system is a client-server system with a three-layer architecture.
C Client layer – SDL TMS client application
C The SDL TMS client is accessed through your Internet browser. Through the SDL TMS
client, you can configure and manage the SDL TMS system, as well as work with projects.
For example, you can configure system settings, set up organizations, set up and manage
users and groups, set up projects and workflows, access created projects and work with
tasks and jobs.
C Middleware Server layer – SDL TMS Web and Application Server
C There are many components that make up the SDL TMS Web and Application Server.
These components must all be set up on the same server machine. They enable the SDL
TMS browser to interact with the Database Server layer (this should be set up on a separate
server machine). The Application Server includes the file system, message queuing system
and the mailer, archiver, logger and workflow services. All of these components along with
SDL TMS Web Server communicate with each other and with the Database Server layer to
provide the full range of SDL TMS functionality.
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