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Roles in GS Cloud

Walter Blaser

Hi

Helping a customer who bought GS Cloud to set up his TMs and users, I noticed that I cannot display or edit roles, although I am logged in as administrator.

As soon as I click on the tab "Roles", I get this error message:

Is this a general restriction for GS Cloud users or a configuration error?

The problem is that even if I am not able to define own roles - which may be acceptable - I cannot even lookup which access rights are assigned to which predefined role. So, how do I know what the differences are between a "Translator" and an "External Translator" for example.

Walter
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  • 0 in reply to Luis Lopes

    Hi Luis

    Sorry to come back on this subject, but we are facing a major issue with these predefined roles.

    These predefined roles all give write access to TUs. There are no differences at all between the access rights of the role "Translator" and the role "External Translator" regarding TMs and TUs.

    It is standard practice that external translators are granted only read access when the review of translated documents is done internally.

    As there is no single predefined role that has only read access and given that we cannot modify roles or create new roles, I would like to know how we should address this problem.

    Walter
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  • 0 in reply to Walter Blaser
    Hi Walter,

    In this process you would typically make use of Project TMs to make sure only the reviewed SDLXLIFF Segments end up in the Master TM.

    Thanks,
    Luis

    Best regards,
    Luis Lopes | Principal Product Manager | RWS | (twitter) @Luis___Lopes |

  • 0 in reply to Luis Lopes

    Hi Luis

    Working only with Project TMs is one possible approach, but it strongly limits the possibilities of the external translator to carry out concordance searches because of the limited content of the Project TM.

    This is why many companies give their external translators read access to the full TM, so that they can run useful concordance searches.

    I don't understand why the rights of these roles have been changed in GS Cloud compared to the standard GS server, where the role "External translator" only gives read access to TUs. 

    Why should this be configured differently in GS Cloud than in standard GS?

    Even if it was different, we could live with it, but the main problem is that all roles have write access to TUs. What should we do if we don't want external translators to modify the TM? Unless I overlooked something, there is currently no way to prevent this and I think this should definitely be changed.

    Walter
  • 0 in reply to Walter Blaser
    Hi Walter,

    The External Translator always has write permissions by default, the only roles with read-only access to TM are Guest and MultiTerm Guest:
    producthelp.sdl.com/.../Standard_Roles_and_permissions.htm

    If there is a high priority to get this changed the best thing would be to raise it with support including a description of business impact so that it can follow the official flow.
    It's not trivial to change permissions on GS Cloud at this stage and no other subscriber has asked for this so far.

    Thanks,
    Luis

    Best regards,
    Luis Lopes | Principal Product Manager | RWS | (twitter) @Luis___Lopes |

  • 0 in reply to Luis Lopes
    Hi Luis,
    I'm coming up against the same question. I do not want translators to overwrite approved TUs before their work has been edited/reviewed. OTOH, I would like them to be able to re-use their own work as they translate, i.e. for "fuzzy repetitions". Have any other suggestions/solutions come up for this?

    Hi Walter,
    Did you end up using the Guest Roles for external translators or did SDL help you change the permissions? I would love to hear how you solved this challenge.

    Thanks!
    Uta
  • 0 in reply to Uta Moncur
    Hi all,

    We've introduced a new read only role for GroupShare Cloud. The help is currently being updated, but if you login you should see a new role.

    Thanks,
    Luis

    Best regards,
    Luis Lopes | Principal Product Manager | RWS | (twitter) @Luis___Lopes |