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Introduction
LSP (Language Service Provider) is just another name for a subcontractor → a third-party company who has their own XTM instance which is connected to the Contractor’s account and from whom receives translation projects.
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This article, however, aims at describing possibilities and constraints put onto a “standard” client who receives a translation project from the Contractor, thus acting as a subcontracting party - a second meaning of the term in question.
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LSP project restrictions resulting from Contractor settings
Generally speaking, the LSP can do as much as their Contractor will let them do in a subcontracted project, as it is all set up in the Contractor settings in the main XTM instance and, in most cases, those settings are nowhere to be changed on the LSP side.
LSP access rights
The most important settings for the LSP are located in an LSP profile on the Contractor instance (Users → LSPs → LSP editor → Access rights).
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customers to which projects the LSP can be assigned;
accessibility of LQA results and reports for the LSP (click here for more information);
customers whose terminology resources the Contractor can allow the LSP to use (if selected at the project creation stage);
extent of terminology management - what the LSP can actually do with Contractor terminology;
customers whose translation memory (TM) resources the Contractor can allow the LSP to use (if selected at the project creation stage);
extent of translation memory (TM) management - what the LSP can actually do with Contractor TM.
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Workflow and access
The second place wherein the LSP rights are defined are the Contractor global settings (Configuration → Settings → Translation → Workflow and access).
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Project settings
What cannot the LSP do?
Last but not least, the vast majority of the options pertaining to a given project that are configured during its creation are valid to the LSP (project creation stage) - the sections such as:
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Translation memory settings:
Use not approved memory,Hide repeated segments,Mark segments as locked when:,Disable term decoration,Allow editing of ICE segments;Machine translation settings.
What can the LSP do?
There are some options in the Project Editor → General info section of a subcontracted project on the LSP side (if enabled in the global settings by the LSP) which are available for selection/editing, but they serve more as internal information/guidelines and have no direct effect on the project as a whole (the Contractor settings take priority):
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Other than that, the LSP can also add their own workflow steps to a project workflow.
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LSP project restrictions independent of Contractor settings
Irrespective of the settings imposed by the Contractor, the LSP also faces other restrictions that are default and expected in the case of subcontracted projects.
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