Manage translation details

You must have permission to be a translation coordinator or an administrator before you can work with translation jobs. After you've sent a job to translation, but before the work is completed by the vendor, there are some details you can update. All of the settings on the original screens you used to create the job are shown, even if you can't update them.

Before you begin

Details you can change

If a job is in the Translation state, you can change:

On the Details tab: Name (of the job), Description, and (Translation) Coordinator
On the Languages tab: Cancel (a language)
On the Components tab: Cancel (a component translation)
On the Integration tab: nothing
On the Reference only tab: nothing

Details you can't change

When you're updating job details, the following settings are shown for your reference but can't be changed after a translation job is submitted: (If you need to make changes to these job parameters, you can cancel the job and re-create it with the correct information.)

Read-only settings:

On the Details tab: Due Date, Target Languages, Translation Project, Total Words Sent for Translation, Filters (for attributes), Include referenced content, Export Configuration, Include Binary, Force Translation of All, Components
On the Languages tab: Languages (you can't select new languages)
On the Components tab: Components (you can't select new languages)
On the Integration tab: Submission Request Information, Submission Response Information, Retrieval Request Information, Retrieval Response Information
On the Reference only tab: Name, Filename

In previous releases, when you added a component to a translation job it was locked with a system lock that was only removed after the translation was completed or cancelled.

However, source files that are included in an active translation can be unlocked by an administrator in the following ways:

An administrator can enable a feature to leave the files unlocked when sent to translation. Admins can read Allow files to remain unlocked during translation.
Now an Administrator can now unlock any component with a system lock, even if it's included in a translation that's still in progress.
- The admin sees a warning that any changes made while the component was locked will be lost.

Descriptions of settings

To see a description of all the settings on the Update Translation dialog, read Send one component to translation or Send components to translation.