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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Audit trail

By default, audit trail in SDL Trados Business Manager is turned on for 2 types of data: Customers and Vendors. Additionally, in the application settings you can enable it for other entity types. Since audit trail records a lot of information about changes made into entities, please enable this feature only for where it is required.

When any user make any change in these types of data, audit trail system logs these changes and saves for future viewing. This allows to track how data of particular customer or contractor was changed, which user made that changes and which fields were affected. Old values and new values of each field are stored, so you can view full history of data change.

  1. To view audit trail log, open any customer or contractor and switch to the Audit trail tab.
  2. To view detailed information about data change, double click on any row. As you see, in this operation Admin user changed default price on 17-apr-2018 by setting it to 0.09 USD for Translation work type. This mechanism is especially useful when Business Manager is used in network mode with many users. In particular, when external vendor has access to web-portal and changes own data, administrator may open audit trail, filter a list by user assigned to that vendor, and view what changes were made.
As you see, in this operation Admin user changed default price on 17-apr-2018 by setting it to 0.09 USD for Translation work type.
This mechanism is especially useful when Business Manager is used in network mode with many users. In particular, when external vendor has access to web-portal and changes own data, administrator may open audit trail, filter a list by user assigned to that vendor, and view what changes were made.