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Assigning a Translation task to a PM when the Translation task assignee wants to ignore the error messages

Currently, a translator can complete a Translation task even if there are error messages or empty target segments. The system bounces back the Translation task and assigns it to the translator a second time. The problem is that the translator can complete the task by mistake, ignoring the errors and leaving empty segments in the translation. That Translation task should be assigned to a PM for example who will check the error messages and will make the decision whether those errors can be ignored or not. Otherwise, we risk having a translator thinking he/she translated the whole document whereas he/she didn't and then charging us for a project which wasn't translated at all.

Carla Galvao
  • in reply to Carla Galvao

    Hi  , thanks for the additional detail. So I understand you want a conditional task that would only occure if there is an error, makes sense. It's not something we have or are planning in the short term. This could be a custom workflow task that is developed to handle this scenario if there is some urgency to have it.

  • Hi  ,

    Thank you but what if the Linguistic Review step is excluded from the workflow (for whatever the reason; it could have been excluded by mistake or the step was excluded because it wasn't needed)? In that case, the Translation task is completed twice by the assignee and then the project goes to the next step of the workflow (let's say one of the Finalization steps) and the project creator downloads a target file with sentences in the source language, the TM is updated with empty target segments, vendor costs are not accurate, etc. We do understand that sometimes a bilingual file might need to have empty target segments, depending on the context, but that should be double checked by a PM or another user.

  • Hi  ,

    This can be done using the Workflow, i.e. by making use of Linguistic Review task types. Or are you suggesting this should be conditional, i.e. only if at least one error was ignored?

    Thanks,
    Luis
    Trados Product Management