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.

You are currently reviewing an older revision of this page.

Vendor translation assignments

Viewing assignments

To open list of assignments, click Translation assignments icon at the top toolbar:

This list contains all assignments of a currently logged in vendor (ongoing, delivered, paid).

Viewing assignment details

To view any assignment, simply double click on it (or use Edit icon in the first column). The following form will be opened:

Translator can view assignment details here, including instructions, and download files.

To download a file (or files), select them in the file manager and click Download as ZIP on the toolbar.

Assignment delivery

To deliver an assignment:

  1. In the list of assignments, click Delivery( ). This button is available only for assignments in work.
  2. The following popup appears:
  3. First of all, if delivery is partial. please check Partial delivery box. If you forget to do that, assignment will be marked as delivered, and you won't be able to upload more files - job will be closed.
  4. Drag your files against each source file. This is important, because it allows manager to track source and corresponding target files.
  5. Drag additional files, which don't have source files, in the Additional files area.
  6. If this is Final delivery, check if all items in the Checklist list are checked, if any. Otherwise, you won't be able to finish delivery.
  7. Click OK to finish delivering. Assignment status will change accordingly, and company manager will get a notification about delivered assignment.