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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SDL Trados GroupShare configuration

To set-up connection to SDL Trados Studio desktop and GroupShare server, open application Settings, select Integrations tab, and specify the following parameters:

GroupShare server address, Login and Password. Specify your details here for connection to the GroupShare server.

Click Check connection… button to check if provided credentials are correct. If you get error message, message text could be not descriptive (for example, ‘Bad request’). In this case please check provided credentials, and try to check connection again.

GroupShare synchronization options group contain parameters which affect on project synchronization feature available from the translation project editing window. If Sync Finalisation phases or Sync Review phase boxes are checked, then SDL Trados Business Manager will create additional services in automatically created jobs for each of these phases. For these tasks, SDL Trados Business Manager will use work types specified in the Main service types group on the Application settings, p2 tab.

Switch to Application settings, p2 and find Main service types group. Three service types in this group correspond to default GroupShare phases: Translation, Review and Finalization. These values must be selected to make GroupShare integration work.