Buttons in "Translation Management" tab are disabled for Regional Editors? - tridion

We're using SDL Tridion 2011 SP1, with SDL World Server, Translation Manager and Workflow.
We have Regional_editor group and they have "Translation Management" and "Translation Configuration" rights with R-W ( Read - Write ) at the source publication and target publication.
The Editor is able to send items to translation and see the translation job in Translation node. So far so good.
Our issue comes when they select a item and click the "Translation Management" tab in the ribbon. Now Retry Sending , Retry Retrieving, Send to translation buttons appears disable to these Regional_editor group.
Any thoughts, is there any config/setup missing?

According to the SDL Live Content documentation titled "Resending a Translation Job (on send error":
To resend a Translation Job you must have Translation Management
rights and one other Content Manager right to a Publication that is a
target for the translated content.
R-W doesn't sound like enough to translate from a source to a target. Try giving author localize permissions on the correct target (child publication) folder.
Update: permissions aren't needed to start translation jobs.

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How does the archive manager check for content unchanged vs content changed?

I am checking the following documentation and looking for little bit more information on How archive manager checks for content changes.
http://sdllivecontent.sdl.com/LiveContent/content/en-US/SDL_ArchiveManager_10SP2/concept_756FB4CA97E94AE9836229E605A06CAD
Scenario:
I have Component A with related Components field links to Component
B,C,D.
On my page A, we add the Component A with Template A and
publish the page A.
On Publish Archive Manager is processing this
and storing the a version in Archive Manager DB.
Subsequent updates to the content is done on any of Component B, C , D.
When we re-publish Page A, does Archive Manager process it as a new copy ? Right now, we see it for some updates and we do not see it for some updates.
We want to get some clarification on the below documented.
Republication (content unchanged) — When the page is republished, the
Archive Manager checks to see whether the content of the page and/or
its artifacts has actually changed. If neither the contents of the
page nor its artifacts have changed, a new version of the record is
created to indicate the resource has been republished, but the
content itself is not rearchived.
Republication (content changed) — when the page is republished, and
its content has changed, a new version of the record is created and a
new entry for its content created.
How does Archive Manager checks whether its artifacts changed or not? Does it check Componet A, B, C , D and Page A ?
Any clarification will be helpful.
Archive Manager's archiving happens in Tridion's content deployment phase and it doesn't reach back to the Content Manager.
The archiver determines which Component Presentations are being deployed by looking at the instructions that the Publisher put into the transport package. But as far as I remember (it's been a while) it only uses the actual web page to determine whether the Components have been changed.

Is it possible to default to 'main view' of the SDL Tridion 2011 CME instead of the dashboard?

SDL Tridion 2011 introduced the new dashboard (or control panel) in the CME. Under User Preferences > View Settings on that page, it is possible for a user to change their start-up view to load the main view rather than the dashboard. Is it possible to set this as a system wide setting for all users?
We are interested in doing this because we have a default custom page that we want our editors to see, but this page is no longer loaded due to the dashboard being loaded by default.
We can do this in per-user settings:
Set: Screen Displayed after starting SDL Tridion to Main View
Leave Start on specific folder unselected.
Right-click one a custom page and set it to default.
This user will now open Tridion on that default custom page.
However, I've seen organizations want to set this for all users without having to do it manually. I've been able to do so on my personal VM but can NOT recommend it for a production environment:
In %TRIDION_HOME%\web\WebUI\Editors\CME\Configuration\CME.config, set the following to an existing custom page URI.
<settings>
<defaultpage>/Views/Dashboard/Dashboard.aspx#locationId=cme:0-1-custompg</defaultpage>
<navigatorurl>/Views/Dashboard/Dashboard.aspx#locationId=cme:0-1-custompg</navigatorurl>
...
</settings>
So yes, it's possible to force a default for at least this version of SDL Tridion. But I'm not sure of a supported way.

BizTalk BAM Portal "Related Documents" Missing

I am working with BizTalk 2010 and using the BAM API to record the body of an incoming message in the BAM_Itinerary_CompletedRelationships table of the BAMPrimaryImport database. This is working well and through SSMS I can see the inbound XML message in the LongReferenceData column. I was hoping to see link to this in the "Related Documents" section of the BAM Portal, but this is empty.
Does anyone know how to get this data to be displayed in the BAM portal?
I'd rather not write a custom / SSRS UI if I can avoid it!
With the API you should be able to achieve that using the AddReference method with a type of DocumentUrl - see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa956649.aspx
This blog might also have some useful info for you - http://geekswithblogs.net/gwiele/archive/2009/05/28/132469.aspx
Good luck!

Monitor vs Watch on SourceForge Tracker

What exactly is the difference watching and monitoring a project on the SourceForge Tracker UI?
The tool tips aren't really helpful.
Hold your mouse over the "Monitor" button and it says "Monitor this project". Hold it over "Watch" and it says nothing.
The "monitoring" and "watching" features are described on the SourceForge Wiki:
Activity watches
Monitoring
Monitoring gives you email alerts when things happen to a project (changes to Tracker bugs, posts in forums, etc.), whereas Watching customizes your SourceForge web page to show you projects/people you're interested in following.
If you're getting too much email, you can go to your "Account" page on SourceForge, and click "Monitoring" or "Watching", and see/adjust your settings from there.
An alternative to these features is to use RSS -- for example, on a project's File Downloads page, there are RSS links for each directory, so you can see in your RSS reader when new files show up for a project.

Drupal (+CCK) permissions based on related node field

Suppose I have two content typs, "Job Listing" and "Job Application". A job application has a field (using the CCK module) to reference the job listing (a required field). Suppose the job application has a field "Status" with values like "new", "accepted", "rejected".
I would like to set permissions so that the job application status can only be set by the creator of the job listing it corresponds to. If there is an addon that can do this great. I would also like general direction as to how a custom addon might implement this.
(I am following the scenario in Ch. 3 of O'Reilly's "Using Drupal")
I don't know if there is a module for this but this can be done pretty easily with some custom code though.
Use hook_form_alter to add your own validate handler to the node_edit form for the application content type.
Check to see if the value has changed
Set an error is user isn't the creator or has the administer content permission.
You're done.
Directions by googletorp are on the right track but you will have to take care of some more permissions also.
Remove the edit own permission for the application content type.
Also you probably do not want author of one job listing editing the applications in response to some other job listing. This is hard to do with any built in permissions. So check in the form_alter hook that current user is the same as the author of the job listing to which the application being edited is connected to.

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