Hi Richard Westle - apart from what my colleague Paul suggested, you may want to check with your SDL Sales Representative as we do have a training department and can provide customized training depending on exactly what you need.

Hi Adrian - thanks for your reply. Our initial thought was that their would be user training material available for the target audience, the infrequent "non-translator". We would prefer to use the collective wisdom of the community and SDL's client experience, vs trying to define a training program for a diverse community of non-translator users.   

Hi Richard Westle - I am not sure I understand. What do you mean by "non-translators"? Can you desribe the persona of this target audience in more detail to see how we can best direct you?

Thank you

Adrian

Hi Richard Westle - I am not sure I understand. What do you mean by "non-translators"? Can you desribe the persona of this target audience in more detail to see how we can best direct you?

Thank you

Adrian

Hi Adrian- Sorry for the confusion, I am borrowing a term from your sales team, which I thought was a good fit. We have a large population of staff in our 44 offices, who are asked to translate content for various operational purposes. These are not our inhouse translators or our external translation partners who help us deliver formal/certified  legal translations. We are reviewing various SDL tools with a goal to improve our informal and semi formal translation requirements and in parallel build assets that will help us improve our MT LPs for legal content. The GS Online editor and more specifically the ability to jump to this editor from our on premise MTE deployment is one of the key review points. 

These non-translators are good in their jobs and native languages, but would not being doing translation frequently, so ease of use and  great " how to" for this infrequent user would be great.  

Hi Richard Westle,

You should also consider one of our Language Cloud offerings such as Trados Live Team or Language Cloud Translation Management. 44 offices would require significantly powerful application and database servers for GroupShare, whereas as Language Cloud is cloud-based, so there is no need to invest in any hardware. Language Cloud is configurable and scalable so if you find yourself needing more users, for example, this is very easy to adjust.

Language Cloud offerings have the latest version of SDL Online Editor built into them, and Language Cloud is fully integrated into Trados Studio.

Kind regards,
Nick

Hi Richard Westle - in that case, a basic video is probably enough. 

community.sdl.com/.../2661

Hi Richard, I am working with Daniel on a practical guide that helps users to understand when it is more efficient to use Studio and when it is more appropriate to use the Online Editor. It includes a listing of the notable differences between both editors. Now, we have a draft chapter that fits well to your use case of the non-professional occasional translation situation pointing out the use of the Online Editor.  Let me know if you like to have a look at it. It should be in a shareable form quite soon. 
Best Matthias

Sounds exciting. Thanks for then update.

Rich