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

16.1.1

  • Important!!! With this release, we're moving from .NET 5 to .NET 6. This affects only Team and Enterprise editions users. To keep TBM working after installing this update, please install .NET 6 Hosting Bundle (currently you have this bundle installed for .NET 5). For Essential version users, no additional actions are required, as all necessary files are bundled into installer.
    [NEW] Added custom formatting rules functionality. See this documentation article.
  • [NEW] Implemented better editing in nested lists (for example, job tasks table). Now it's possible to quickly move between table records without closing modal dialog. We considered implementing editing right inside tables, but found out that in many cases there is not enough space to render editors. In the result, editing via modal dialogs remains, but with quick navigation between records and possibility to quickly create new items. In the result, this new feature should highly increase productivity when entering/editing data. See documentation here.
  • [NEW] Clients - added possibility to provide multiple addresses/departments for clients, and select them in quotes/projects/jobs/invoices.
  • [NEW] Custom mark for documents - it is now possible to set marks for selected documents, and these records will be rendered with bookmark icon in the top left corner of a row. It is up to user how to use this functionality (for marking important records, or for marking processed and closed jobs, etc.). See documentation here.
  • [NEW] Added new built-in security role - 'PM'. Intended to be assigned to project managers, which should be able to view only those documents where that users are selected as Responsible person. See documentation here.
  • Trados Live integration - implemented project planning functionality for translation projects. See documentation here.
  • Trados Live integration - added possibility to batch import missing users in the list of vendors.
  • GroupShare integration - when selecting a project or job, detailed information about GS project files will be retrieved and displayed below tables.
  • List of projects, jobs and assignments - removed progress bar below each row. Progress will now be displayed only for a currently selected object below the table. This will save some space and make tables clearer.
  • Lists which support live filters - added Close button to filtering panels.
  • Job tasks table - added totals to the 'Quantity average' column.
  • Sent invoices are now protected from editing and deleting.
  • Localization - added more cultures to the list for selecting custom culture used to format dates and numbers in the application.
  • Automatic notifications - improved mechanics of automatic determination of notification recipients.
  • Multi-tenancy - added 'Last used' column to the list of tenants.
  • [BUG] Fixed incorrect selection after applying a filter. If some row is selected before applying any filter, and applied filter removes that row from a table, this hidden row remains in the selected rows collection, which could lead to undesired behaviors.
  • [BUG] Fixed a bug which allowed to delete service type in some cases when it was still referenced, which lead to database integrity corruption.
  • [BUG] Fixed automatic PO generation issue.
  • [BUG] Custom fields - it is not possible anymore to edit custom field name, type, length after a custom field has been added to the database.

6.1.6

  • Fixed error in assignments (when creating new empty assignment)
  • Fixed a bug when vendor self-registration didn't work in the multi-tenancy environment
  • Config page didn't work correctly if installed SQL instance had non-default name
  • Small bug fixes

6.1.9

  • Fixed error in assignments (when creating new empty assignment)
  • Fixed a bug when vendor self-registration didn't work in the multi-tenancy environment
  • Config page didn't work correctly if installed SQL instance had non-default name
  • Small bug fixes

6.1.10

  • Improved performance in multi-user scenario
  • Responsible person field will be automatically populated upon quote/project/job creation based in value of the Associated vendor field specified for a current user
  • File selector won't be displayed upon creation of entities (for example, assignment from a job), if source entity has no files for selection
  • Fixed slow search in the Language pair combobox
  • Fixed a bug when it was not possible to download files containing 'plus' character in their names

6.1.11

  • Fixed a bug in reports, not allowing to provide parameter values before report generation.
  • Fixed a bug when application crashed after a number of quick page changes.
  • Fixed a bug in Settings > Application settings, p1 > Number format > Apply number format - function worked correctly, but after it finishes, loading window didn't hide, preventing to do further actions.

6.1.15

  • Fixed validation issues and added more validation throughout the application

6.1.17

  • [Bug] Fixes in printing system.
  • [Bug] Entity creation via modal dialog - OK button is disabled until any data field is edited.
  • [Bug] Applying live filters in translation assignments by language pairs and specializations didn't work.
  • [Bug] Sorting state in list views was not saved between page switches.
  • [Bug] Department creation on fly - customer is not pre-selected selected even when creating a department from a job/quote/project where customer is already selected.
  • [Bug] Attempt to fix Out of memory exception when composing recommendations in assignments using machine learning mechanism.

6.1.18

  • Some bug fixes and performance improvements.