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.

Essential - change default port

For Windows version of TBM, it is required to use some local port. Since Essential version is web application packed into exe file, it uses browser engine internally to display pages. Internally, these pages have the following format:

http://localhost:port/PageName

For example

http://localhost:8733/Dashboard

This port is used to identify application channel in memory. For example, to connect Trados Studio with TBM, you have to specify URL of the TBM host. Because of this, TBM should always use the same port, and it is not possible to pickup random free port upon each application start. Based on this, the following default port was chosen for TBM Essential: 8733.

There is probability that this port will be used by other application running on your computer. In this case TBM will fail to start. You will see an error and blank screen. You can check error contents by pressing F12 and switching to the Console tab. If error message says about unavailable port, you can try to change it.

Current implementation of the default port changing procedure has downsides, so it's recommended to find a way to free port 8733, so it can be used by TBM.

Please follow this procedure to change default port:

  1. Navigate to the application installation folder, open resources\bin folder, and open appsettings_global.json file using any text editor. If you don't have such file, you can download it here: appsettings_global.zip
  2. Find DesktopPort parameter and set custom value.
  3. Save file.
  4. Start TBM Essential. You will see blank screen.
  5. Close the application (right click in task bar and select Close).
  6. Start the application again. Now it will work. Due to existing platform limitation, we can't make it working with 1 launch. Two launches are required to apply changes.
  7. After installing next update, you will see blank screen again upon first launch after installing an update. Please close the application and start it again.

Because of this requirement to start the application two times, it is highly recommended to find a way to free default port, as mentioned above.

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