Trados Business Manager – End of Life Announcement

Trados Business Manager (TBM) has reached end of life. Following the discontinuation of TBM sales on 31 October 2023, all maintenance and support services will conclude on 31 October 2024.
What Does This Mean for TBM Users?

  • End of Services: RWS will no longer provide any services related to the installation or updating of TBM.
  • Existing Installations: TBM will remain functional where already installed, but the RWS support team will not offer assistance in troubleshooting issues, addressing reported problems, or providing further development for TBM.
  • Documentation: The TBM documentation has been removed from docs.rws.com.
  • Community Support: The community forum for TBM will remain accessible in a read-only format for users to reference if needed.

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Moving data from local database to server database

If you decided to switch to network mode, but previously used the program in a local mode, than it may be required to transfer old data to a new database.

Procedure

  1. Run SDL Trados Business Manager in the local mode.
  2. Open program Settings.
  3. Select Export all data to Json file.
  4. Select file name and folder to save exported file.
  5. In the Settings form, switch to Database settings tab and provide details of your database server.
  6. Restart the program and open Settings.
  7. Select Import data from Json file, select exported file and wait while operation finishes.

Note. This procedure doesn't allow to transfer custom reports and QuickReports. To transfer reports, please export/import each template manually from the designer.