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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Changes introduced in Trados Business Manager 6.1.0

In this article you will find list of changed and detailed information about changes implemented in Trados Business Manager 6.1.

Blog article

Please check this blog article describing changes in detail, with screenshots and explanations.

Video introduction

Changelog

  • Added possibility to change application font size, font color and font family.
  • Added a feature to change default formatting culture for dates and numbers in the application UI.
  • New Vendor time management feature.
  • Added Swiss QR invoices.
  • Studio Live integration improvements (assign users, get detailed project data in the list of projects).
  • New Vendor quotes feature. Allows to request quotes from vendors, vendors can send quotes back using vendor portal, and managers can view/accept/decline/negotiate quotes.
  • New Quote planning tool, which allows to estimate quote amount based on vendors planned to be used in a project.
  • New Custom notifications feature, which allows to create custom notification for any object and then display it at a specified time.
  • New Notification categories feature, which allows to categorize notifications and setup excluded or included categories which a user should receive or not.
  • API improvements - added endpoint to get recommended vendors for assignments, as well as new endpoints for required software and productivity settings for vendors.
  • List views - improved visual filter builder, by adding additional level of properties selector for complex properties.
  • List views - added Refresh button, to reload data (to check if they were externally changed, for example).
  • Quotes, projects, jobs, assignments - added Required software field, which allows to specify software required to be used in a project. Also, added corresponding variables to message templates to include this data into generated messages and notifications.
  • Quotes - added Workflow field (which will be automatically copied to a project when a quote is accepted).
  • File manager - added Hide from portals checkbox.
  • Translation job tasks editor - added a button to quickly clone selected tasks to other service.
  • Assignments candidates - added Change status button.
  • Improved UI in the file attachments dialog. You can easily differentiate a source from where proposed files are coming from.
  • E-mail account page - added Test button to test provided settings.
  • QuickReport list - predefined reports are now highlighted.
  • Highly improved application performance and memory consumption.

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed a bug when notification was received only in one browser, if the same user is logged in from different browsers.
  • Assignment - automatic notification wasn't sent when a new candidate was added and assignment status was changed to Prepare.
  • Vendor portal - rejected job offers were still displayed in the list of assignments (but hidden from the dashboard).

New articles in the documentation

Changed articles in the documentation