Invoicing a business unit
This section provides an overview of how to bill a business unit of your organization for a translation.
When configured in the Translation Manager configuration file and specified by the initiator of a Translation Job, the value of a business unit is passed to SDL TMS as metadata. To use the value for billing requires you to perform additional handling. The following is an overview of the tasks you need to perform on SDL TMS:
- Add a Metadata Definition—metadata are ad-hoc database fields created to store organization specific data. Metadata fields can be displayed on screen for completion by users or they can be hidden fields used by Broker scripts.
- Add a Workflow Stage and create a new system stage to run a Broker script:
- Select the System check box
- Set Interface to CUSTOM
- Select a Broker Script file
- Create a Broker Script file—a Broker stage is a System stage which runs a locally prepared script. Before you can create a Broker Stage you must have uploaded a Broker script to the Resource library.
- Add the Workflow stage to the Workflow used in translations where invoicing requires a Business Unit to be specified.