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Personas and roles

To ensure a smooth and consistent user experience, the Trados Team user interface has been designed based on multiple personas, each of them performing specific activities on different pages.

The supported personas are:
  • Administrators
    • Have full access to the Trados Team platform.
  • Project managers
    • Have access to Trados Team.
    • Have full control over project setup, linguistic resources, administrative resources, project creation, project planning and task assignment, project monitoring and reporting.
  • Customer requesters
    • Have access to Trados Customer Portal.
    • Can submit localization projects.
    • Can monitor localization progress.
    • Can download completed translations.
    • Can have 2 roles: Customer Requester and Customer Requester Restricted. Users who have the Customer Requester role can see their peers' projects in Trados Customer Portal, while users who have the Customer Requester Restricted role cannot see their peers' projects in Trados Customer Portal.
  • Linguists (translators or reviewers)
    • Have access to Trados Team.
    • Can accept/reject/send back to the pool any translation or review task assigned to them.
    • Can translate or review content in Trados Studio or in Trados Online Editor.
  • Terminologists
    • Have access to Trados Team.
    • Can manage termbases and termbase templates.
  • Engineers
    • Have access to Trados Team.
    • Can perform the prerequisites required to create projects, namely set up the linguistic and administrative resources.
    • Can extract content from non-localizable file formats.
    • Can work on DTP tasks.
All localization personas:
  • Access the tasks assigned to them straight from their personal inbox.
  • Have full control over their assignments, in that they can accept, reject or return tasks back to the common task pool.
  • Have access to the resources required to perform the tasks assigned to them.
  • Can perform actions specific to their role and to the groups to which they belong.