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Authorizing users to send content for translation

A user must have Translation Manager rights to one or more Target Publications configured to receive translated content to be able to initiate translations.

Rights required to view Translation Publications
To see a Source or Target Publication in the Content Manager Explorer and perform Translation Manager actions on items, a user needs the following rights:
  • Translation Management rights or
  • Translation Configuration rights and
  • at least one other Content Manager right
Rights required to Initiate Translations
To initiate a translation:
  • from a Target Publication (from one language to another), a user needs Translation Management rights and at least one other Content Manager right configured on the Target Publication.
  • from a Source Publication (from one language to several languages), a user needs Translation Management rights and at least one other Content Manager right on at least one Target Publication.
For example, in the following BluePrint:
  • To translate from either English to German, English to Dutch, or English to French, a user must have rights to respectively the German Publication, Dutch Publication, or French Publication
  • To translate from German to Austrian-German, a user must have rights to the Austrian Publication
  • To translate from English to German, English to Dutch, and English to French, a user must have rights to respectively the English Publication and the German, Dutch, and French Publications
Granting a user access to one of these Target Publications allows them to initiate translations (pull translations) from this Publication, or to modify any Translation Job that was initiated from this Publication (for any job in the Definition state). The scope of a Translation Job will therefore always be from one source language to one target language, for example from EN-DE, or EN-NL, or EN-FR.
You can, however, grant users access to a Source Publication and several Target Publications, for example the English Publication (Source) and the German, Dutch, and French Publications (Targets). Granting a user access to these Publications allows them to initiate translations (push translations) from the English Publication. The scope of a Translation Job created in a Source Publication is one or more Target Publication for which an individual Translation Manager has access rights to (one source language to potentially several target language), for example EN-DE, and EN-NL, and EN-FR.
Push and pull authorization models
Push and pull models for initiating translations offer a different level of scope. The scope of access you want to grant users to Publications—that is, whether to implement a push or a pull model—depends on your organizational model and the roles and responsibilities of Translation Managers within your organization:
Corporate versus Country/Regional organizational model:
  • If country and regional Web sites managers have a high degree of autonomy and responsibility for the content of the Web site, with a high level of regional specific (local) content, implement a pull model. Web site managers can then "pull" translations from Corporate Web sites if they deem the content suitable for the Country\Regional Web site
  • If a Corporate Web site supplies a majority of the content for the Country and Regional Web sites, implement a "push" model whereby updates (new and updated content) of the corporate Web site content get translated for all languages in one go
Translation Managers responsible for localization tasks may work individually or as a team:
  • Individually — if a Translation Manager is responsible for a single translation, for example English to German (EN-DE), grant them access to the Target Publication configured to receive the German Translation. They can then initiate and update translations from this Publication.
  • Team — if several Translation Managers are responsible for a number of translations, for example English to German, Dutch and French (EN-DE, EN-NL, and EN-FR), grant access to the English Source Publication as well as the Target Publications (German, Dutch, and French). The Translation Managers can then update and manage all Translation Jobs created in these Source and Target Publications.