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Making the Assign to field optional, not obligatory during translator package creation

Dear SDL Community,

I have spotted this feature in Studio, when setting up a multi-languages project where you are prompted to assign every single language to a user in the last window "Review Project Packages".

This "Assign to:" field is obligatory in Studio 2015 or higher.

The official answer from SDL support, is that is by design:

"In the Assign to box, select the user to which you want to assign the specified task for this package. If the person to which you want to assign the task is not available from the drop-down list, click Users to display the Users dialog box where you can create additional users. See About Managing Users for more information." You can create a general user e.g. "Translator" and select it when you don't want to personalize that field.

But if you have a studio project with 20 languages you have to make 20 packages and choose 20 times something from this list. Even if I only make one user in the dropdown as suggested and use this one and only “translator” for all packages I have to do it 20 times. And we wanted to log this as feedback. So people who want to choose a user to assign to can do it and people who just want to create the translator packages fast don’t have to.

 

Thanks in advance,

István

Istvan Volford
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  • Hi István, totally agree.

    I also wanted to submit a similar request. We do not assign the packages at all to the translators, but as it is obligatory, we have entered our company name and project manager in the droplist, which we chose then. Regardless of multi- or single language projects.

    So, one alternative could be your idea to make assigning optional. Another one could be to define a field in the options, where you put in your own data, which is than always automatically used in the assigning packages dropdon.

    Best regards

    Burim

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  • Hi István, totally agree.

    I also wanted to submit a similar request. We do not assign the packages at all to the translators, but as it is obligatory, we have entered our company name and project manager in the droplist, which we chose then. Regardless of multi- or single language projects.

    So, one alternative could be your idea to make assigning optional. Another one could be to define a field in the options, where you put in your own data, which is than always automatically used in the assigning packages dropdon.

    Best regards

    Burim

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