Every organization and team is composed of members with different user roles. In Transifex, there are six user roles, each with a different set of responsibilities and user permissions. Here's a look at them.
Organization Administrator
Admins have full access to all features and control over every setting within an organization. Admins can do what the other roles can, plus the following:
Create/delete projects
Add/remove project maintainers
Invite people from all roles
Create and delete teams
Assign projects to different teams
Access all reports for all projects and teams in their organization
Order translations
Manage/change an organization's subscription
Create/delete glossaries
Create/delete style guides
Change organization-level settings such as Translation Memory and Glossary sharing
Transfer projects to another organization
Archive projects
Delete an organization
Edit string context, including tags and smart tags for all projects
Project Maintainer
Maintainers are responsible for managing individual projects in Transifex. Maintainers can:
Add/remove project languages
Approve/deny language requests
Add/delete resources
Invite/remove other project maintainers
Access all reports for projects they maintain and their respective teams
Post project announcements
Change project-level settings
Review and Proofread translations in all project languages
Submit translations in all project languages
Delete TM entries
Edit string context, including tags and smart tags for the projects they maintain
Mark open issues as resolved
📝 Note: The creator of an issue can also mark it as resolved.
The Project Maintainer role is tied to a specific project – not a team. However, Project Maintainers don't need to be added to the team translating the project they're managing since they already have translation permissions.
We recommend making developers on your team either Maintainers or Admins.
Team Manager
Team Managers are responsible for who's on a team and assigning each member's role. Managers can:
Invite people to a team
Approve/deny team join requests
Change the user roles of team members
Start a team discussion
Review and Proofread translations
Submit translations
Access Translation Activity Reports
Edit string context and tags but not smart tags
The Team Manager role is valuable when working with translation agencies. Assign someone from the agency to be a Team Manager, and they can then invite their translators to work on your projects and assign them different roles.
Language Coordinator
Coordinators are responsible for overseeing a particular language within a team. Coordinators can do the same things as a team manager, but on a language level:
Invite people to a language in a team
Approve/deny join requests for a language in a team
Change the user roles of members in a language of a team
Start a team discussion in a particular language
Review and Proofread translations in a specific language
Submit translations in a specific language
If you're crowdsourcing translations, you can delegate some of the responsibility of managing a specific language to a trusted community member by promoting them from a translator or reviewer to a language coordinator.
Reviewer
Reviewers play an essential role in ensuring translation quality. They check translations to ensure they're error-free and meet your quality standards. Once a translation is reviewed, it cannot be edited by a Translator. Reviewers can:
Review and Proofread translations in a specific language
Submit translations in a specific language
Post in team discussions
Translator
Translators work to adapt your content from one language to another. They can:
Submit translations in a specific language
Post in team discussions
📝Note: While there are six user roles in Transifex, only Team Managers, Coordinators, Reviewers, and Translators are part of the teams. Admins and Maintainers work on an organization and project level, respectively.
Comparing Roles
Check out these handy charts below that break down the different privileges for each role in various categories.
Project Configuration
Below, you can see the available actions at a project level that each role has the power to take.
Teams & Collaboration
Below, you can find each role's available rights and privileges in managing teams and collaborators.
Editor
Below, you can find the actions each role can perform in the editor.
Subscription
Below, you can find the available actions for each role related to Subscriptions.
Other
Below, you can take a look at the actions each role can perform regarding orders, reports, and organization settings.
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