Localization Terminology

The following list contains frequently occurring terms in ]project-open[, together with their description and an empty column for translation. This list is designed to be pasted into a language file in order to determine the translation of specific terms.

We strongly recommend that any translator looking to localize ]po[ will start to translate this list before he or she starts to translate the rest of the localization strings.

ACS Datatype Please insert translation here
Not used anymore, should read: OpenACS Datatype
ADP Page ... As opposed to TCL Page. Together a TCL + ADP page for a ]project-open[ page
AIM ... Instant Messenger
AM ... Before noon like 9 am. But please use lower case!
AMS ... Attribute Management System
Absence ... from intranet-absences package: Vacation, sicknesss, bank holiday, ...
Absence Type ... Vacation, travelling, sickness, ...
Accept ... Should read "Approve" in general. Used in the context of workflows.
Access permissions ... User security configuration
Account ... ]po[ user account, allowing the user to log in.
Account manager ... Account message
Accounting ... In ]po[ used as opposed to "controlling"
Accounting Contact ... Person that will receive Invoices per email
Active Customers ... Companies of type "customer" with status "active"
Active or Potential ... Project status. Includes both "active" and "potential" projects.
Add Stuff ... Used in the GUI to add Portlet Components to a page, for example the ProjectViewPage.
Organization ... Should read "company"
Admin ... Action: short for "administer". Or short for "Administrator"
Admin Absences ... Administer/manage absences
Admin directory ... /admin/. Refers to a special directory for each package, only accessible for administrators.
Administer ... Not used anymore: Replace with "Admin"
Administration Links ... Actions to administrate a package or object.
Administrator ... Application administrator
Advanced Filtering ... Option in the ProjectListPage and other list pages to include DynFields in "filtering" objects to be displayed
Advanced search ... Special option in the Full-Text Search Engine to include special criteria. As opposed to normal "search".
Advertizing ... Business sector, as opposed to Consulting, Translation, ITSM, ...
AIM Screen Name ... Screen name for AOL Instant Messenger.
Alchemy Catalyst ... Translation CAT tool
Alert Type ... Type of alert message
All day event ... Calendar item during the whole day
Allocation ... Assignment of resources to future projects
Allowances ... Amount available for a consultant per day for other expenses. Context: intranet-expenses package
Amount ... Sum of an invoice or a quote.
Annual Revenue ... How much are we going to make with this customer per year?
Annual recurrence ... An event that repeates annually
Anonymize ... Make anonymous
Application administrator ... Specific application admin (only configure ]po[), as opposed to system administrator (Linux, Windows)
Applications ... Job applications(?)
Approved ... Frequently used workflow status. Contrary of "rejected"
Area code ... Part of an address
Asignee ... Person assigned to a task
Ass ... Abbreviation for "Assign" with 3 letters.
Assign ... Assign a user to a task or a project.
Associate ... Associate one object with another object. For example: Users with projects.
Atril Déjà ... CAT tool for translators.
Attach a file ... Adding a file to an object.
Attribute ... Object attribute, field of a ]po[ object, such as "project name".
Authentication ... Verify the combination of username/password
Authority ... Refers to an LDAP server that keeps user's passwords
Auto Assigment ... Automatic assignment of resources to tasks.
Availability % ... like: 100% available
Average Bill Age ... Average age of financial document "provider bill"
Average Invoice Age ... Average age of financial document "customer invoice"
Average Quality ... Quality level, used in translation quality package
B - No the best ... Result of a translation test.
B-Date ... BIOS Date
B-Manufacturer ... BIOS Manufacturer = company creating this BIOS
B-Version ... BIOS Version string
BCC ... Email: Blind Carbon Copy as, opposed to CC.
BIOS ... Computer's Basic Input Output System
Back up ... Request for the user to press the "back" button of the browser.
Backup ... Database backup
Ban this user ... Exclude this user from the ]po[ system.
Bank Account ... Account
Bank Holiday ... Free day, according to the local regulations.
Bank transfer ... Money transfer to a bank account, "wire transfer".
Banned ... Status of a user who was removed from the system.
Batch Synchronization ... Synchronize two system completely. May take quite long. As opposed to on-demand synchronization
Batch sync ... Batch synchronization
Become this user! ... An administrator may login as a less privileged user without giving a password.
Benefit ... Same as profit?
Best regards, ... Relatively formal end of email.
Big Brother ... IT application for monitoring if servers work. Please don't translate.
Bill ... Short for "Provider Bill" = an invoice from a provider towards the "internal" company.
Bill Units ... Short for billable units
Billable ? ... Is this item billable to a customer?
Billable Units ... As opposed to "effective units"
Billable company? ... Can we bill our costs to the company? ONGs are non-billable for example.
Billable wordcount ... As opposed to "effective wordcount": The amount of words billable to the user.
Billing rate ... Bill the customer at which price per unit?
Bio ... Short for Biography
Birthdate ... Date of birth.
Biz ... Short for Business
Body Shopping ... Business practice of consulting: Sell a consultant to a customer. "Sell a body..."
Branch Office ... As opposed to "Main Office"
Budget ... Maximum amount to spend for a project
Budget Hours ... Maximum amount of consultant's hours to spend on a project.
Bug ... Error in a software package
Bug-Tracker ... ]po[ package to deal with software bugs.
Bulk Mail ... Same as "spam": mass mailing
Bulk Update ... Update a lot of objects with a single button.
Business object ... A project, company, user, timesheet task, ...
CC ... as opposed to BCC: Carbon Copy of an email
CSV ... Comma Separated Values - format for exporting data to Excel
Calendar ... Global or personal calendar = group of calendar items.
Calendar Item ... A single element of a calendar
Callback ... OpenACS pattern, allowing one part of the system to "call back" to another part of ]po[ in case of certain events.
Cancel ... Frequently used button in HTML pages
Cancel and return ... Frequently used button in HTML pages.
Canceled ... Workflow status
Capacity ... Capacity of a resource
Capitalization ... Upper case
Caption ... Header/title of an image
Case ... Workflow case
Cash ... Form of payment.
Catalyst ... CAT translation tool
Category ... Category to classify objects. "Project Type" is a category for example.
Category Hierarchy ... A "tree" (=hierarchical order) of categories
Category Tree Maintenance ... Modifying a "tree" (=hierarchical order) of categories
Change ... Action, such as "Admin"
Chat ... Option for chat application
Cheque ... Cache cheque
Children ... Elements in a Category Hierarchy
Choose ... Action like "Admin" or "Change"
Citizenship ... Field of a user.
City ... Part of Office address information
Claim ... Financial: get money
Cleanup Demo Users ... Dangerous action to delete all users in the ]po[ system
Clear ... Action like "Admin" or "Choose"(?)
Client ... Not used anymore, please use "Customer"
Clone ... Duplicate a project, so the "clone" project is an identical copy.
Close ... Action, like Admin or Choose.
Close your account ... Message during user account management
Collection ... A group of objects
Column ... A "DynView" consists of several columns.
Comma separated ... CSV, comma separted values, a file format for Excel export
Comment ... Action (like: Comment on the project)(?)
Community ... Group of people working on a subject, can mean all users of a ]po[ system.
Company ... "Company" object in ]po[, refers to a "legal person" as opposed to a "natural person". Includes customers, providers and partners.
Company status ... Status of a company, such as "active", "closed", "deleted", ...
Company type ... Type of a company, such as "Customer", "Provider", ...
Conf Item ... Short for Configuration Item
Configuration Item ... Special term from ITIL refering to an inventory item in an IT organization
Confirm ... Action like "admin" or "choose"
Confirmed ... Workflow or object status after confirming
Consulting ... Business sector, like translation or ITSM
Contact ... A person related to a company, either external ("customer contact") or internal ("key account manager")
Contact Rel Employment ... Employment relationship with a company: where is the guy employed?
Contact's history ... In Contact context: history of actions performed by the person
Contacts ... "intranet-contacts" package
Content Folder ... A folder to hold content items.
Content Item ... Generic superclass of "Image", "Wiki Page", "Content Folder", ...
Content Repository ... Repository to keep Content Items and Content Folders
Continue ... Action like "Admin" or "Choose"
Copy ... Action
Corel Catalyst ... CAT took, please don't translate
Cost Center ... Part of a company's financial hierarchy. In ]po[ a cost center can also be a "department"
Country code ... 3 digit code for countries.
Create ... Action like "Admin" or Choose
Currency ... EUR, USD, CAD and JPY are default currencies in ]po[
Customer Document ... Financial items send towards a customer. Includes Invoice, Delivery Note and Quote.
Customer Invoice ... In ]po[ we always use "Customer Invoice" vs. "Orovider Bill".
Customers ... Context user groups: as opposed to freelancers, employees & customers
Data-Warehouse ... Special type of reporting.
DB Error ... Database Error
DBI interfaces ... Not used anymore
DTP ... Desk Top Publishing
Dangerous ... Warning for users that the following actions can render their system useless.
Dashboard ... Like a plan's cockpit, a dashboard shows a number of "indicators" that allow a manager to check the status of his company.
Date Range ... Time interval
Day rolling period ... Unit of advancing one day, translates into "days".
Debit advice ... See financial terminology
Debugging ... Removing bugs from source code.
Decimal number ... Type of number
Del ... Action, like "admin" or "choose"
Delete ... Action like "admin" or choose". Alternatively: As opposed to "nuke". "nuke" physically removes the object, while "delete" only marks the object as deleted. "Nuke" is a very dangerous action in ]po[ and not available to normal users, so please translate into something funny/dangerous to catch attention
Delinquent user ... Funny term for a user that didn't log his hours.
Demo Projects ... Projects provided together with the "Tigerpond" demo company.
Department ... A type of "cost center" where users are emplyed.
Dependent Objects ... Objects that depend on the current object. These objects can't be deleted if the current object exists.
DevAdmin ... Short for development administrator
Digits ... 0..9: allowed characters in a string, for example in the Project Nr.
Directory ... Folder in the file storage
Disable ... Action like "enable" or "delete"
Discard ... Action like "skipping"
Discussion ... Type of forum topic, as poosed to Task, Incident or News
Disk Size ... Size of a hard disk
Display ... Should be replace by "show"
Document ... File in the filestorage
Draft Quality ... Very bad translation quality
Driver ... Software driver
Duration Days ... Duration of an Absence
DynField ... Dynamic Field, allows to add new fields to projects, customers, users etc.
E-mail ... Electronic mail
Edit ... Action, like "admin" or "change". Also: Trans workflow stage: 2st stage: trans - edit - proof - other
Effective Date ... For invoices: Due date = effective date + payment days
Effective wordcount ... As opposed to "billable wordcount": Approximation to the real effort that it takes to translate a file
Emergency ... Urgency level of tasks(?)
Employee ... User profile, as opposed to freelancer and customer.
End Date ... Project End Date - when should the project be finished?
Envelopes ... Some data that might enclose some other data, just like an envelope enclosed a letter...
Equals ... Same as "="
Equipment ... Generic term for hardware
Erase ... Not used anymore, please replace by "delete".
Evaluation ... Evaluation of a user
Exchange Rate ... Context: intranet-exchange-rates package
Execution Project ... An 'Execution Project' is a copy of a project designed to be completely separated from any references to the initial project in order to keep the customer anonymous.
Expense ... Same as expense item
Expense Item ... Context: intranet-expenses package: A single "ticket", such as an airplain ticket.
Expense Bundle ... A group of expense items grouped together
Export Companies CSV ... Export the list of companies to MS-Excel
Extension table ... An additional SQL table, to extend an object's main table.
FAQs ... Frequently Asked Questions
Fax ... Address field
Feature ... Characteristics of a software
File ... File in a file storage
File attachment ... An attachment consisting of a file.
Filesize ... Size of a file
Filestorage ... ]po[ package, where files associated to a project can be stored.
Filesystem ... Hard disk of a server
Filter ... Selection criteria to list objects in the ProjectListPage and other list pages.
Filtering ... Reduce the number of objects in a list page.
Finance ... Context packages: Finance area of ]po[
Financial Document ... General term for all financial items such as quotes, invoice, purchase orders. As opposed to "financial item" which refers to expenses, timesheet and other "minor" expenses.
Financial Summary ... Portlet of a project: Shows the summarized financial information.
Financial Item ... as opposed to financial document: Only refers to the internal financial items, and not the ones sent to customers or provider.
First Names ... First name(s) of a user. Always in plural.
Flush ... Like a toilet, a "cache memory" is emptied.
Folder ... Folder in a file storage containing files
Footer ... Email footer.
For details ... Allowing the user to drill-down into details.
Form Preview ... Preview a form (= The fields of a project or other objects)
Forum ... A ]po[ package "intranet-forum"
Forum items ... Bad: should be "Forum topic".
Forum task ... As opposed to timesheet task or gantt task
Forward ... Send email to others.
Freelancer ... As opposed to Employee or Customer: User profile
Freelance Manager ... As opposed to Employee or Customer: User profile
From Scratch ...
Create a financial document "ad hoc", not referring to information from projects etc.
From Timesheet Tasks ... Base the creation of a financial document on timesheet information and hours logged by the user.
From Translation Tasks ... Base the creation of a financial document on information about translation tasks.
FtsEngineDriver ... Full Text Search Engine Driver
Full Member ... One of the "user roles": as opposed to "Project Manager" or "Key Account Manager".
Full Time Equivalents ... A person employed 20 hours/week = 0.5 Full Time Equivalents
Functionality ... Functionality of a software package.
Gantt ... Inventor of these project charts with the bars in the calendar.
GanttProject ... Software application for project management, similar to MS-project, please don't translate
Generate Invoice from ... Create an invoice document based on another document.
Generic PM ... Generic Project Management
Get ... Action such as "delete" or "admin"
Glossary Comp. ... Short for Glossary Compilation
Glossary Compilation ... Frequent task in translation projects before translation starts.
Go ... Action
Grand Total ... Total sum of a list of financial items.
Grant ... Action (grant permissions)
Group ... Action (such as "ungroup"). Also: Group of users.
Heading ... Heading of a page.
Help ... Link for help page.
Home Line 1 ... Address line 1 of the "home address" of a user.
Host Job Order ... Number of a "job" task in a "host computer" (big IBM computers)
Host Release ... Software release in a "host" (big IBM computer) environment
Hour ... Unit of measure, such as "Day" or "Unit"
Hourly Cost ... How much does it the company cost (total costs) to have an employee work one hour?
Hourly rate ... For how much can we sell an employ to a customer?
Hours Dedication ... How many hours did he/she dedicate?
HR Managers
The Profile (=group) managing human resources
Human Resources ... Company department
ICQ ... I Seek You messenger
ID ... Identifier of an object, frequently used field of any object.
ISO Code ... Country ISO code abbreviation
Image attachment ... Attachment to be shown as an impage
Import Company CSV ... Upload a CSV file including a list of companies
Import a file ... Upload a file into some ]po[ page
In Process ... Status of a workflow
Inbox ... Email inbox
Incident ... Type of ticket, as opposed to "Problem", "Change (request)", "Issue"
Inherit ... Characteristics taken from a "parent" object.
Inherited Permissions ... Permissions granted to a "parent" object, but valid at the current object.
Input Devices ... Mouse, keyboard, ...
Input Error ... Error when entering data
Inquiring ... Status of a bug request
Inquiry Type ... How did the customer inquire about us?
Instances of ... Objects of a specific type
Interest Level ... How much is the customer interested?
Internal Error ... ]po[ faces interal problems (not related to the user)
Internal company ... One company in ]po[ has the company_nr 'internal' (please don't translate). This 'internal' indicates to the financial system that this is our company as the counterpart for financial documents.
Invalid Object Type ... Part of an error message
Invite ... Action like "admin" or "choose"
Invited ... Status for invitations in the RFQ package.
Invoice ... Short for "Customer Invoice"
Is after ... condition for creating (SQL) "searches"
Is before ... condition for creating (SQL) "searches"
Is greater than ... condition for creating (SQL) "searches"
Is less than ... condition for creating (SQL) "searches"
Is more than ... condition for creating (SQL) "searches"
Is not ... condition for creating (SQL) "searches"
Is not set ... condition for creating (SQL) "searches"
Issue ... Type of ticket, as opposed to "Problem", "Change (request)", "Incident"
Key Account ... Short for Key Account Manager
Key Account Manager ... A person who can modify company information
Key Accountant ... incorrect, should be key account manager.
Last 24 hours ... Condition for creating (SQL) "searches"
Last Name ... Last name of a use. Always in singular.
Last interacted not in the last ... Condition for creating (SQL) "searches"
Last interaction in the last ... Condition for creating (SQL) "searches"
Last month ... Condition for creating (SQL) "searches"
Last week ... Condition for creating (SQL) "searches"
Law Company ... Business sector, such as translation, consulting, advertising
Layout Manager ... Part of ]po[ that manages how a form should be presented to a user.
Leave community ... Remove user from ]po[
Less than ago ... Condition for creating (SQL) "searches"
Linguistic Val. ... Linguistic Validation
List ... Action like "admin" or "choose"
Lists ... In Contacts context: List of attributes
Localization ... Adaption of a computer program to other languages
Log Absences ... Enter vacation or sicknes days into the system.
Log hours ... Enter hours spent on projects into the timesheet
MLV Translation Agency ... Multi Language Vendor
Mac OS X ... Operating System, please don't translate
Machine Translation ... Step in a translation workflow
Mail Merge ... Combine a mail template with contact information to create a mass mailing.
Mail Through ... Sending mail without recording the mail.
Mail Tracking ... Record mails send or received by ]po[
Main Menu ... Topmost menu in the system
Main Office ... As opposed to sales office
Main Project ... As opposed to subproject.
Maintenance Project ... Type of project for ongoing activities.
Manage ... Activity such as "admin" or "change"
Mandatory ... Required information
Mark as Read ... Action in the "forum" package
Mark as Unread ... Action in the "forum" package
Marriage Status ... Field of a person
Material ... Type of good or service that a company could sell. For example "project manager hour" or "software license"
Memory ... Computer memory
Menu ... Implements tabs and other links in the ]po[ system
Merge Contacts ... Unify the information about two persons.
Mine ... Refers to projects where the user himself is a member of.
Skill Level ... Concept from intranet-freelancers-rfq package: Minimum skill level for a postition, for example.
Mkt ... abbreviation for Marketing
Moderated ... Like: moderated list
Monthly Salary ... Amount to pay to an employee
Monthly Social Security ... Amount of social security to pay to the govenment for employing an employee
Multilizer ... CAT translation tool
Multiselect ... A kind of drop-down box in ]po[ where the user can select more then one item.
My Account ... Link point to information about the current user.
NDA Signed? ... Non Disclosure Agreement signed?
Natural number ... Type of number = integer >0
Needs Approval ... Workflow status
Needs clarification ... Workflow status
New Cost ... Please replace with: "New Financial Item".
New Cost Item ... Please replace with: "New Financial Item".
News ... Type of forum topic
Next ... Link in a "paginated list page", pointing to the next page.
No Big Kahuna ... Funny error message, if the "top boss" is missing in the company hierarchy.
Not commented on in last ... Condition for creating (SQL) "searches"
Not created in the last ... Condition for creating (SQL) "searches"
Note ... Context intranet-forum package: type of "forum topic", as opposed to "discussion" or task. Context intranet-notes package: universal comment to be added to all types of ]po[ objects.
Notification Interval ... Daily, hourly, instant
Notification Type ... Notification via Email, SMS or Bongo?
Nr. ... Frequently used field of objects, like "Project Nr.". "Nr." will be replaced by "Num" in the future.
Nuke ... as opposed to "delete". "nuke" physically removes the object, while "delete" only marks the object as deleted. "Nuke" is a very dangerous action in ]po[ and not available to normal users, so please translate into something funny/dangerous to catch attention
Num Slots ... Number of "slots" in a computer.
OACS Widget ... Please replace with: OpenACS Widget
Object ... generic term, as opposed to "business object"
Office ... The venue/delivery address of a company. A company can have multiple offices.
On-Demand Sync ... As opposed to batch sync.
One Time Password ... Password that only works a single time.
Online status ... Is a user online at this moment?
OpenACS Widget ... As opposed to ]po[ widget.
Operator ... Contacts context: AND, OR, +, - type of operator.
Ophelia ... Translation management system.
Option ... One element in a drop-down box, "option" in general.
Ordering ... Type of ordering in lists.
Org Chart ... Short for organization chart, company hierarchy
Organization ... Contacts context: A company
Other ... Trans workflow stage: 4st stage: trans - edit - proof - other
Ouch! ... Funny error message.
P/O Admin ... Profile for application administrator
Package ... ]po[ package (unit of installation)
Page ... HTML page
Pager ... Field in a person's address information
Paid Amount ... Amount of money paid, in the context of financial documents.
Paid Currency ... Currency in which the "paid amount" has been paid.
Paper Type ... Address field of a person.
Parameter ... ]po[ parameter to control the configuration
Parametrization ... The configuration of a piece of ]po[ using parameters
Parent Categories ... The more general super-category
Parent Group ... The more general super-group
Parent Project ... The project higher up in the project tree
Party ... As opposed to user or person: A party is a person plus an email.
Party Revision ... Version of the specific party
Pasolo ... Translation CAT tool
Password Confirmation ... The password a second time in order to avoid errors.
Past Due ... The invoice should already have been paid, but is isn't
Past Projects ... Projects of a user that have already been closed.
Path ... Path in the filesystem
PayPal ... Financial transfer service
Payment Days ... Number of days for the customer to pay the invoice, starting at "effective date".
Payment Details ... Detailed information about a payment
Payment Method ... Bank transfer, cache, Visa, ...
Payment Status ... Paid or Pending
Payment Terms ... Same as payment days, basically.
Payment Type ... Please replace with "Payment Method"
Pending ... Status of some object.
Percent Completed ... 100% means the project has been finished.
Permission ... Permission to perform an action in ]po[
Person ... Group context: A user without right to logon to ]po[, as opposed to user or party.
Plain Text ... As opposed to HTML formatted text
Planned Units ... Number of hours required (as estimated by the project manager) for completing a timesheet task.
Please confirm ... Action request
Please note ... Please take note that ...
Plugin Component ... A "gray boxe" in ]po[ with information associated to project, companies, users etc.
Port ... Computer port
Portrait ... A picture of the current user
PostgreSQL ... The database underlying ]po[
Posting Date ... When has the forum topic been generated?
Potential ... Status of project or companies.
Potential Project ... A project in status "Potential"
Pre-revenue ... A customer whith whom we haven't made any money yet.
Preformatted ... A hard disk that has already been formatted.
Preinstalled Hard Disk ... a hard disk already installed with an operating system
Prelim Profit ... Preliminary profit: Based on Custmer quotes and purchase orders, and not on invoices and bills
Preliminary Costs ... Sum of purchase orders and a timesheet budget.
Premium Quality ... Highest quality level for translations
Pretty Name ... Pretty name for an object.
Pretty Plural ... Plural of pretty name for an object.
Preview ... Preliminary view of an invoice, before sending it per Email.
Previous ... Link to the previous page in a "paginated" list page.
Price List ... List of prices at a company's page.
Primary contact ... as opposed to "accounting contact"
Priority ... Priority level for "task" forum topcis or bugs.
Privilege ... Specific ]po[ term: A specific permissin for a user profile to perform a specific action.
Problem ... Type of ticket, as opposed to "Incident", "Change (request)", "Issue"
Profile ... User Profile, as opposed to role or group: Employee , Project Manager , Senior Manager
Profit & Loss ... Profit of a project: Difference of Invoices - Bills - Timesheet - Expenses.
Project ... Main object in ]po[
Project Nr. ... Short for Project Number, unique.
Project Number ... Please replace with "Project Nr."
Project Path ... Location of the project's files in a file server.
Project from Template ... Create a new project as a copy of a "template" previous project
Project margin ... Percentual difference = Profit / Sum of costs.
Proof ... Translation workflow stage: 3st stage: trans - edit - proof - other
Proof Only ... Translation workflow consisting of a single step, only proof reading a text.
Proofing ... Translation workflow status, when the task is in the stage "proof"
Provider ... Company offering services in ]po[.
Provider Bill ... In ]po[ we use "customer invoice" vs. "provider bill"
Provider Document ... Financial document send towards providers: Provider Bills and Purchase Orders.
Public ... Context profiles: refers to everybody using a ]po[ system
Purchase Order ... A financial document ordering services from a provider.
Purchase Price ... Price for purchasing a service
Qualifying ... Project status, sub-type of "potential"
Quality Level ... What quality does a provider usually deliver?
Quality Reports ... Form filled out by a reviewer to judge the quality of a translation
Quarter ... 3 months
Query ... A question from a translator to be clarified by the project manager.
Quote ... A financial document towards a customer, offering a service.
Quote Out ... Project status, sub-type of "potential"
Quoting ... Project status, sub-type of "potential"
RFC ... Request for Change, from ITIL terminology
RFQ ... Request for Quotation, from financial terminology
Radio Buttons ... HTML form element - One Option Allowed
Rate ... Price of a consultant towards a customer
Reassign Topic ... Assign topic to another person
Recipient ... Email recipient
Recover Password ... A user can request that a new password is sent to his email account.
Recr Status ... Recruiting Status
Recr Test ... Recruiting Test
Recurrence ... Repetition frequency of calendar items.
Redirect ... ]po[ will return to that page.
Referral Source ... Who provided the referral?
Referred By ... Who provided the referral?
Registration ... Process of registering a user in ]po[
Reibursable % ... Percent of an Expense Item to be reimbursable to the consultant who paid it.
Reject ... Action within an approval workflow
Rejected ... Project or workflow status.
Relationship ... Link between two objects in ]po[, for example a project and a user.
Relationship types ... Employee relationship, group member relationship, ...
Remove ... Action, like "delete".
Render TCL ... TCL code to "render" (=display) the contents of a column
Reopen your account ... Message for users whose account has been closed.
Rep ... short for Repeat?
Repeating Cost ... Should be "repeating financial item": Monthly or othewise periodically ocurring financial item.
Repetitions ... Translation context: Number from Trados or other CAT tools on repeating words in a text
Reply ... Action to a forum topic.
Report ... Report for extracting statistics from ]po[
Reported Units ... Number of hours of a timesheet task actually logged by the users.
Reporting ... Menu tab leading to the list of reports.
Request ... Action asking for something.
Request Error ... Error during a HTTP "request" operation.
Request For Change ... RFQ, a kind of ticket, part of ITIL terminology
Request Notification ... Ask for notification
Request Membership ... Ask for membership of a project or customer.
Requested ... Status of a project
Required ... Status of a project
Required Skills ... Context skill management: The skills a user needs to have for a specific project.
Reset ... Action like "delete" or "admin"
Reset Stuff ... Command to re-establish all Portlet Components in a ]po[ ViewPage
Resorce Planning Report ... Report to identify how many people are already assigned to projects.
Restore ... Oposite of Backup
Revisions ... Versions of a Content Item from the Content Repository
Revoke ... Delete permissions
Revoke privilege ... Remove/reverse previously given permissions.
Richtext ... Type of HTML form element, like a textbox, but allowing for HTML text.
Role ... Project Role, as opposed to profile or group : PM=Project Manager, F=Full Member, ...
Salary ... Money per month an employee will receive
Payments per Year ... Number of payments of salary per year.
Salary Period ... By default "one year".
Sales ... Department, similar to "Marketing"
Save ... Action like "delete" or "admin"
Save As ... Action
Save Changes ... Action, please translate like "Save"
Scheduling ... Set the date(s) for some action.
Score ... Result of a valuation.
Search criteria ... Information for a search
Searches ... In Contacts context: stored search
Sel ... Short for action "select"
Select ... Action "select"
Send ... Action
Senior Managers ... User profile, similar to Project Managers
Service ... Like "Service Management"
Show ... Action
Sick ... Type of absence
Signature ... Lower part of an Email
Site-Wide Admin ... P/O Admin
Site-Wide Administrators ... Same as P/O Admin, master of the (]po[) universe
Skill ... Human resources skill
Skill Type ... For example: "source language" for translators.
Skill Weight ... Importance of a skill when taking a decision
Skin ... Colors and GUI of ]po[ selectable by a user.
Slots ... Memory slots in a computer, PCI slots, ...
Snapshot ... The configuration of a complex object at a certain moment
Social Security ... Field of an Employee: How much does he receive per month in SS?
Software ... Type of Config Item
Software Company ... Type of company
Software Development ... Type of project
Software Maintenance ... Type of project
Software Release ... Type of project
Software Updates ... Mechanism in ]po[ to update the system.
Some Importance ... Degree of Skill Weight
Sort By ... How should a list be sorted?
Sort Order ... How should a list be sorted?
Source Language ... Translate from what language?
Source word ... Unit of translation, counting the words in the source language
Spam ... Funny name to refer to mass mailings.
Staff ... Employees only
Standard Quality ... Translation quality level
Star Transit ... Translation CAT tool
Start Block ... Technical term of the first day of each month.
Start Date ... First day of a project
Storage Devices ... Hard disks, CD-Roms, USB-Sticks, ...
Storage Type ... How to store a field: In a table, in a separate "skinny table", ...
Strategic Consulting ... Type of customer
Subject Area ... Translation skill type
Submit ... Action
Subproject ... As opposed to "timesheet task". A sub-project include permissions management, while a task inherits permission from its project
Subquery ... Part of a SQL query
Subsite ... Section in ]po[. There is usually only one subsite in a ]po[ server.
Subtotal ... Sum of some items in a financial summary.
Successfully finished ... Message after a successful upload.
Supervisor ... Polite for "Boss"
Syndication Feed ... Grouped RSS feed
Sys Config ... Short for System Configuration
System Administrator ... Master of the (]po[) universe
System Release ... Software release version
System URL ... URL of the ]po[ instance
System administrator ... Specific Linux or Windows admin, as opposed to application administrator
T-Line ... Translation unit of measure
T-Word ... Translation unit of measure
TAX ... As opposed to VAT: Type of tax used in some countries.
TCL ... The programming language of ]po[
Table ... Database table - the place to store database objects with their fields.
Target Lang ... Short for target language
Target Language ... Translation skill type
Target word ... Translation context
Task ... Translation task, timesheet task, forum task, marketing task, ...
Task Action ... Actions to take for a specific task
Tec ... Subject area types for translation
Tec-Auto ... Subject area types for translation
Tec-Gen ... Subject area types for translation
Tec-Mech eng ... Subject area types for translation
Tec-Telecos ... Subject area types for translation
Technology ... Subject area types for translation
Termination Date ... End of employment relationship between a company and a person
Termination Reason ... Reason why an employment relationship has ended.
Textbox ... HTML form element.
Ticket ... Type of small project, may be incident ticket, problem ticket, change ticket etc.
Time plan ... Short for Planned Timesheet Costs.
Timesheet ... List of hours logged per day or week.
Timesheet Cost ... Cost for the time of employees who have dedicated time to a project
Timesheet Cube ... Data-warehouse cube for reporting on timesheets
Timesheet Customers and Projects ... Name of a report showing timesheet information by custmer and project.
Timesheet Invoice ... Special type of invoice, when created based on timesheet tasks.
Timesheet entry ... A single "hour" logged in the timesheet
Timesheet task ... As opposed to "gantt task" or "forum task"
Timestamp ... Date when an object has been created or changed.
Total Amount ... Total sum of an invoice, but possibly before before discounts or taxes.
Total Due ... Total sum to be paid.
Trados ... CAT application
Trados ... CAT tool
Trados Wordcount ... An extimation of the number of words to translate, including discounts from already translated words.
Trans ... Trans workflow stage: 1st stage: trans - edit - proof - other
Trans ... Translation workflow stage
Trans Edit ... Translation workflow type
Trans Edit Proof ... Translation workflow type
Trans Int Spotcheck ... Translation workflow type
Trans Invoice ... Translation invoice, when created based on translation tasks.
Trans Only ... Translation workflow type
Trans Only (Dynamic WF) ... Translation workflow type
Trans RFQ ... Special version of a Request for Quotatation for translation companies.
Trans Tasks ... Translation workflow type
Trans+Ed ... Translation workflow type
Trans+Ed+Proof ... Translation workflow type
Trans+Int.Spotcheck ... Translation workflow type
Trans-ing ... Translation workflow status, short for translating
Transition ... A stage/step in a Petri-Net workflow
Trust Model ... "Permissive" or "Restrictive"? How much does the company trust its employees?
Turnover ... Revenues per year of a company
Unauthorized ... like "unauthorized access"
Unconfirmed ... Opposite of "confirmed"
Unit of Measure ... One of Hour, Day, Month, Unit, Source-Word, Target-Line, ...
Units ... "A total of X units have been spent on this project": refers to "hours"
Unmap ... Opposite of "mapping" an object to another object. Similar to "associate".
Unsubscribe ... Request no more messages to be sent.
UoM ... Unit of Measure
URL ... Uniform Resource Localizer
User ... Group context: A user with the right to logon to ]po[ as opposed to person .
Username ... The system's name for a user, typcially a short name.
VAT ... Value Added Tax, as opposed to TAX.
Valid From ... Start of active period of a price in a price list
Valid Through ... End of active period of a price in a price list
View ... Action
View column ... Part of a "Dynamic View / DynView"
Visible ... Online status is (not) visible
Widget ... The widget defines how a DynField should be displayed to the user.
Wiki ... Type of content management system (Wikipedia)
Wordcount ... Generic: number of words in a translation task
Workflows ... Flow of action managed by the Petri-Net Workflow Engine
XTr ... X-translated words in the context of Trados or CAT tools.
Zip ... ZIP code
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