Account structure, folders, and inheritance

Trados Enterprise can support folder-based access management to resources. Folders are also known as locations or customer locations.

You can organize your resources into folders and subfolders to keep an accurate record of their account structure and enforce parent inheritance.

Concepts we use: customers, folders, locations

  • Location/Folder = the place where you save your resources

    You can add as many locations (folders) as you like under the Customers folder. Save your resources in the location (folder) of your choice to keep your account organized and to enforce the rules of access and visibility.

  • Root folder = the highest location in the hierarchy
  • Customers folder = the location where you add the clients or departments for which you build terminology
  • Home folder = the folder where a resource is saved
  • Parent folder = the folder hierarchically above the home folder (and by extension any hierarchically superior folder)
  • Child folder = the folder hierarchically below the home folder (and by extension any hierarchically inferior folder)
  • Brother folder = the folder which has the same parent as your home folder
  • Public folder = the default status of all folders

    The resources inside a public folder are visible to users from that folder and below that folder.

  • Private folder = the customized status of a folder

    The resources inside a private folder are visible to users from that folder, but not to users from any folder below.

Concepts we use: inheritance and visibility

  • Inheritance = the propagation rule which gives users the ability to have visibility over and work with resources in the account hierarchy

    Users can work with the resources available in the home folder and from above the home folder.

  • Visibility = the property which differentiates between public locations (folders) and private locations (folders)

    All folders are public by default, which means that they are visible to users from that folder or below.

    Folders can be made private, which means that they are visible only to users from that folder, and not to any users from the folders below.

Concepts we use: resources

  • Termbase = repository of term entries used by linguists during translation and review
  • User = the individual who is part of one or more groups

    The place where users are saved, as part of a group, is also called the home folder.

  • Group = an entity which brings several users in one place and associates users with roles

    A group is saved in a location (a folder in the hierarchical account structure) and can have one or more roles. RWS recommends that you associate one group with one role.