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.

Including currency rate and amounts in base currency in invoice templates

Some legislation may require to show amounts in your invoice expressed in your native currency.

Since each invoice has Currency, User, Currency, Currency rate and Amount (base currency) fields, it is easy to display total amounts in your base currency. Just drag this fields into report footer (somewhere near final amount), and you are done.

  1. Open your template and determine source table for printing your invoice rows.

    This table allows to simplify invoice template structure and makes workflow more logical. To determine which of these tables is used, find a detail band which contains invoice rows and check what is written after its name.

  2. This template uses Rows to print table.

  3. Now, when a table is determined, we will add a new calculated field to this table.
  4. In the Field list, right click on the Rows to print item and select Add calculated field.
  5. Set the following parameters for this calculated field:

    Data member - Rows to print
    Data source - Invoice (or according name of your data source)
    Expression: Round([Amount]*[Invoice].[Currency rate], 2)
    Name - AmountBase

    Take a note that value is rounded to 2 decimals here. Please set rounding according your preferences.

  6. Now you have a new calculated field which may be used in the detail band.

  7. This label is bound to User.Base Currency.Name field. As a prefix, the work Amount is used. In the detail band, drag and drop previously created calculated field.

  8. If you wish to include currency symbol, clear this label binding and use mail merge feature, by writing (or drag/dropping) something like this: [User.Base currency.Symbol] [AmountBase!n2]
  9. To use drag and drop functionality, double click on this label, clear text and drop both fields one after another from Field list. You have amounts expressed in base currency for each invoice row.
  10. To display full amount, drag and drop Amount (base cur) field to the Total amount sub-band, or to any place below detail report.
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