The segment statuses—Pending Review, Reviewed, Rejected, or No Status—are intended to indicate the state of the segment and, more importantly, who currently has responsibility for the segment. For example, if a segment is marked as Pending Review, then a reviewer is supposed to “own” the segment. If segment is marked as Rejected, a translator should own the segment. If a segment is marked as Reviewed, the segment is ready to move on through the workflow.

The Step Type option, which is available for all Human Steps in a workflow on the Advanced options pop-up, indicates what type of work (Review or Translate) is performed during the step and can control behavior in the Browser Workbench. You would not want the translator to be able to mark segments as having Reviewed status; only reviewers should be able to do that. You can restrict the translator by setting the Step Type parameter in the Translate human action to Translate. That way, when a translator claims a task during the Translate step, and opens the asset in the Browser Workbench, the Tools > Translation Status menu will contain only Pending Review and None, instead of all of the statuses. For details on how the Step Type is treated by WorldServer, see Rules for Using Step Type to Control Who Can Change Segment Status.

To show how Step Type can be used in a translation and review workflow, consider the following workflow fragment:

In this workflow, the translated task goes into review and then corrections are done in the Edit step. The task loops inside the Review/Edit cycle until the review is completed. To facilitate review rules, the Review step can be defined as Review step type while the Edit step will be defined as Translate step type. That way, the reviewer will be able to set segments to Reviewed (so they are considered finished) or Rejected (so they will go to the Edit step to be corrected). The "editor" (who is operating with the Translate step type) will only be able to correct the rejected segments and set them to Pending Review.