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Addin version does not appear

Balázs Fehér — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 05:59:45 GMT

Hi All,

I have a problem that, I have a functioning addin, but the version of the addin does not appear in the options (see image). I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Can you please help what I should set to make it appear?
Thanks in advance

Best regards,
Balazs

Easing plugin dependency version maintenance via assembly binding retargeting

Robin Palotai — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 12:11:34 GMT

Hello,

I wanted to ask your opinion if it would be feasible to automatically retarget the plugin dependencies to the actual versions (as long as there weren't any breaking changes). Let me share a bit more context on where I encountered this:

The 2024 CU2 release of Trados Studio used updated versions of the MS WebView2 assembly. Since our plugin was compiled against a specific version of WebView2 (the one shipped with Trados 2024), this naturally resulted in a plugin load failure. But WebView2 itself is backwards compatible: using a newer assembly while compiling against an older assembly's API works by contract. So ideally, our plugin would keep working without having to recompile against the new assembly versions.

This should be possible to achieve using the assembly binding retargeting feature of .NET - for example, memoQ has this retargeting config next to its executable, and upgrades all interface assembly version bindings to use the shipped version. This way plugins don't need to be recompiled for successive releases.

As for Trados, it might be possible for the retargeting to affect the API assemblies too, or any assembly where compatibility was not broken. So plugin maintenance could become easier, and recompilation would only be needed in case of a genuine breakage of the API.

What do you think, is this a suitable idea for sometime in the future?

BR,
Robin

GroupShareKit TranslationMemories.GetTms() returning incomplete and nondeterministic results

Tamas Meszaros — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 08:07:44 GMT

Hi,

when calling TranslationMemories.GetTms() on the GroupShareKit API several times, it keeps returning different results:

1st call: 3626 TMs

2nd call: 3688 TMs

3rd call: 3729 TMs

4th call: 3601 TMs

Accoring to GS web UI, we have 4450 TMs (tested with the same user every time)

We have GS: 15.1.10.13194 - GS 2020 SR1 CU10, and GSKit 15.1.10.

Is this a bug in the REST API maybe? Has anyone met this problem?

thanks,

Tamas

Is it possible to edit and edit & reload templates from studio plugin?

Tamas Meszaros — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 11:03:51 GMT

Hi,

I tried to manipulate an sdltpl Studio template (as xml file) from a studio plugin, but if I open the template for editing then, I cannot see the changes (adding a new file type). If I close the template editor, then the file is reverted to the original state.

It seems as if Studio would cache the templates in the memory, and ignore the current status on the disk as long as the application is running.

Is there any (even unofficial) way to make changes effect while studio is running?

thanks,

Tamas

Exporting a Server TM using the TranslationMemory API results in a TMX file that misses the context matching information

Tom Imhof — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 12:24:52 GMT

Hi, I have detected a problem with the Exporter class in the TranslationMemory API. The problem is that - when a server TM gets exported, the TMX is missing the context information after the export.

Here is my code:

Dim TMExporter As New Sdl.LanguagePlatform.TranslationMemoryApi.TranslationMemoryExporter(ServerBasedTranslationMemory.GetLanguageDirection(LangDir))

TMExporter.ChunkSize = 100

TMExporter.FilterExpression = GetFilterCreatedAt()

AddHandler TMExporter.BatchExported, AddressOf Exporter_BatchExported

strExportfile = ExportFolder & "\" & ServerTM & "_" & LanguageDirection.SourceLanguageCode.ToString & "_" & LanguageDirection.TargetLanguageCode.ToString & ".tmx"

Try

Dim strNow As String = Now.ToString("yyyyMMdd_HHmmss")

TMExporter.Export(strExportfile, True)

System.IO.File.AppendAllText(LogFile, ControlChars.CrLf & strNow & " SUCCESS: " & ServerTM & " , Source Language: " & LanguageDirection.SourceLanguageCode.ToString & " , Target Language: " & LanguageDirection.TargetLanguageCode.ToString
& " was successfully exported to " & strExportfile & ". " & exportProgress.ToString & " TUs were exported." & ControlChars.CrLf)

Catch ex As Exception

Dim strNow As String = Now.ToString("yyyyMMdd_HHmmss")

System.IO.File.AppendAllText(LogFile, ControlChars.CrLf & strNow & " ERROR: " & ServerTM & " , Source Language: " & LanguageDirection.SourceLanguageCode.ToString & " , Target Language: " & LanguageDirection.TargetLanguageCode.ToString &
" could not be exported. The original error message was: " & ex.ToString & ControlChars.CrLf)

System.IO.File.Delete(ExportFolder & "\" & ServerTM & "_" & LanguageDirection.SourceLanguageCode.ToString & "_" & LanguageDirection.TargetLanguageCode.ToString & ".tmx")

End Try

This code - when run on a local SDLTM exports everything just fine including the context information:

But when I run it on a server TM, the TMX misses the context information after the export finishes:

Integrate Studio with Censhare

Priscillia Schlemo — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 08:21:42 GMT

Dear Community,

We're about to switch to Studio 2022 and would like to integrate it with Censhare. Is there an existing API for that?

Thanks for your help,

Priscillia

Passolo command line

Daniel Masson — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 20:50:57 GMT

Hi,

I start to use the command line interface of Passolo.

I open the dll and create the database but I can't find how to specify the good language code to my new database

I need to set to French France (12 1)

When I use "Fra" the lpu is create in French (12 0) not in French (France)

pslcmd.exe /newproject:CatalogBrowserTool.lpu /addsource:CatalogBrowserTool.dll
pslcmd.exe CatalogBrowserTool.lpu /addlang:"Fra"

I need French(France) because I want to use the /update and my other database the language is 12 1

Thanks for your help

Dan

Export termbases from SDL MultiTerm Server 2015

Vitaly Chernichenko — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 15:22:07 GMT

I am developing a small application which exports TMs and termbases stored in the SDL GroupShare 2015 Server.

The TM part was not a problem at all. But the Multiterm part is a challenge. I have the following code right now:

Sdl.MultiTerm.TMO.Interop.Application oMt = new Sdl.MultiTerm.TMO.Interop.Application();
Sdl.MultiTerm.TMO.Interop.TermbaseRepository oServerRep = oMt.ServerRepository;
oServerRep.Location = Parameters.Server;
oServerRep.Connect(Parameters.UserName, Parameters.Password);

if (oServerRep.IsConnected)
{

var oTbs = oServerRep.Termbases;

for (int x = 0; x < oTbs.Count; x++)
{
var mtName = oTbs[x].Name;
var information = oTbs[x].Information;
var accessPermissions = oTbs[x].AccessPermissions;

bool canExport = accessPermissions.CanExport;

HOW CAN I EXPORT NOW THE oTbs[x] Termbase to a file?

}
}

MT Enhanced Plugin for Trados Studio produces weird output while using Google Translate

Dīpakkumār BHAṬṬ — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 10:09:05 GMT

I'm using Trados Studio 2021 SR1 - 16.1.8.4404 version.

I tried to use MT Enhanced Plugin for Trados Studio for translating from Gujarātī to English. It produced weird output while using Google Translate V2.

The English sentences are completely out of syntax. Actually, it was word-for-word translation in the syntax of the Gujarātī language.

In fact, when I use the free Google Translate app directly without using the SDL Trados Studio, I get much better English syntax.

It'd be great if some distinguished user could help me out.

I intended to ask this question to a developer. I'm not sure whether I am posting it in a right forum.

Please advise me if I should post this question to a different forum, and if so, how I should do it.

This is the first time I'm using this forum.

Download not available (AppStore)

Dalila Ferrero — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 14:21:30 GMT

I try to download a specific free plugin for trados from the AppStore and I get: https://oos.sdl.com/asp/products/App/EditApp?appID=1185

Download App

Download not avaliable

You have logged in successfully, however this app is not available for you to download because you don’t have a license for one of the supported products (SDL MultiTerm 2017 - SDL MultiTerm 2019 - SDL MultiTerm 2021) in your account. Please contact the administrator of your company licenses and they will be able to download the app for you. Alternatively contact SDL through your support account, or via the appstore forum in the SDL Community. For more information, please see the [language] Terms and Conditions

Can you help me? because it not only happens to me

Regards,

Dalila.

Continuous integration, automatic deployment, api upload plugins

Facundo Goyeneche — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 19:46:47 GMT

Hi guys. I'm new here. I'm developing a plugin for Trados. I wanted to store it in the app store. I understand that I have to fill the form to check and accept my plugin but I wanted to ask if there is a way to upload future versions of my app automatically maybe by teamcity thru the SDL API.. or maybe directly from a git repository.. I don't wanted to upload new versions manually each time.
Thanks a lot in advance.

How to create a button that will activate a drop-down menu when clicked?

Tudor Rusu — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 08:39:12 GMT

Hello,

I would like to create a button that will make a drop-down menu similar to the "Align Documents" button in the original application.(I will add a screenshot)

I know that to create a normal button you have to use "Action" and "ActionLayout" class attributes, but are there any for this drop-down option that I am looking for?

If there is no way to do it, do you have any suggestions in how to achieve this?

SDLXLIFF Toolkit - performance and size issues

Radosław Domian — Tue, 19 May 2020 11:11:31 GMT

Hi all,

First of all, if this is wrong place to share feedback about app - SDLXLIFF Toolkit (https://appstore.sdl.com/language/app/sdlxliff-toolkit/296/) please let me know and if possible move this thread to proper location. Thanks in advance.

I am currently working on multiple and quite big *.sdlxliff files and my project needs to separate locked and unlocked segments, so I decided to use SDLXLIFF Toolkit to remove not necessary segments and glue needed into one using "merge result" option.

Few details:

141 *.sdlxliffs - 2,11 GB size
All segments count = 35038
Locked segments in all 141 *.sdlxliffs = 25944
Unlocked segments in all 141 *.sdlxliffs =9094

Unfortunately, when I am using SDLXLIFF Toolkit with settings which I need, it crashes with out of memory information. I checked it on few PCs with 8\16 GB RAM and it's still the same issue, however the maximum spotted memory load was around 1,5 GB.

I believe that problem is because of performance and loading whole *.sdlxliff file as *.xml, what in case of multiple and/or big files ends with out of memory exception.

Of course I tried less files - 5 files (size 75-100MB) and it works.

The next issue is size of merged, but sliced result *.sdlxliff, it's not big difference.

Example:

12 *.sdlxliff files
total size 115 MB
All segments count = 6852
Locked segments in all 12 *.sdlxliffs = 5752
Unlocked segments in all 12 *.sdlxliffs = 1100

I was expecting merged *.sdlxliff with only unlocked segments which are 16% of all segments, with reduced size, but size of merged *.sdlxliff is 82.6 MB which is ~72% of initial size.

I would like to know if there is any chance to review the code of this tool SDLXLIFF Toolkit and try to solve issues with performance and size, described above?

In case of needed more details, I am happy to help, please leave me message I will try to help as much as possible.

Thanks for your help in advance.

Best regards,

Radek

information on Trados program language for developers

davide fezzardi — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 10:20:35 GMT

Hello everyone,

have you got perhaps any information of the programming language needed to develop apps for SDL Trados software (Studio, Mutliterm,...)?

I doubt I will manage to study thoroughly a programming language, at least in the short term, and I have a very basic knowledge of programming but it's an interesting field.

Kind regards

Davide

How to check if segment is locked in a custom file type plugin

Andrija Karadžić — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:48:22 GMT

I'm working on developing a custom json file type for Trados Studio. I need to perform different actions on segments depending on whether the segments are locked in the translation editor. So far, I cannot see a method or API hook to check if a segment is locked in either the file parser or file writer.

Our file type plugin, and the fileWriter within are implemented according to: How to Create a Plug-in for Processing Native Formats from the SDL documentation.

Note that we are using the AbstractBilingualFileTypeComponent, IBilingualWriter, INativeOutputSettingsAware for our file writer.

I need to be able to obtain the information about the locked/unlocked state of a segment that is being written into the file.

Is there a way to do this inside the fileWrinter, or is there something else I need to do?

MSWord plugin version 1.3

Adrian Yalda — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 06:49:26 GMT

Hello,

I am looking for version 1.3 of the MS Word Grammar Checker as from what I can tell this version seems to be faster than the most recent version on the App Store when using Trados 2017.

Is there still a way to get version 1.3 of this plug-in anywhere so I can test it out?

Thanks.

Active my own created Winform App in SDL Trados Studio 2019 GUI

Ole Hübbe — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 08:48:11 GMT

Hi All,

How to implement a new button down left corner in SDL Trados Studio GUI (see attached image)

The button click should show/link to my own created Winform App so that projectmanagers can use it in SDL Trados Studio 2019

I accomplised to build my own app and can see it in SDL Plugin Management.

How to do that?

Best regards
Ole

Add my app to SDL Trados Studio GUI left corner

Ole Hübbe — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 12:57:53 GMT

How to Add new button that shows my plugin on click (like Welcome, Projects, Editor, Translation Memories) SDL Trados Studio GUI left corner? is it called Views or ViewParts?

I have managed to make a build from VS2019 and can see the plugin in the SDL Plugin Management in SDL Trados Studio 2019.

Best regards

Ole

My first app (Winform) for SDL Studio 2019

Ole Hübbe — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 06:39:49 GMT

I get namespace errors when create a default and will hear if someone can help.

In the class: MyCustomTradosStudio.cs i get errors

'Desktop' does not exist in the namespace 'Sdl' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

'TranslationStudioAutomation' does not exist in the namespace 'Sdl' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

I have uploaded a screen dump that shows the class: MyCustomTradosStudio.cs in VS2017.

Best
Ole

Go to segment using Javascript in Web Browser Component

Adrian Yalda — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 05:51:08 GMT

Hello All,

I use a custom plug-in to provide functionality for my users including a Web Browser component that connects to WorldServer to run various servlets for the user. This plug-in has been working well for a couple of years now. The plug-in is built in Visual Studio with C#.

One specific function that I have for my use case is the ability to click on a segment number (from an automated servlet that runs in the Web Browser component) and have Trados move the cursor to the designated segment. This is done using a Javascript function as follows:

function goSegment(number) {

window.location = trados/goSegment + number.toString();

}

This function works in Trados Studio 2017 version 6278, but no later versions seem to support this.

Does anyone know if there is an updated way to do this? I am unable to upgrade Studio without this resolved and currently when users accidentally upgrade their version, I have to uninstall and reinstall 2017 version 6278 to get the functionality back.

Thanks for any help you can give.

Best regards,

Adrian

Could not load file or assembly 'Newtonsoft.Json, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6aeed' or one of its dependencies

Hendrik Striepe — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 14:00:10 GMT

Dear SDL Devs, dear Community,

we are still using the file based API. On Studio 2019 we get the following error, using Sdl.LanguagePlatform.TranslationMemoryApi:

Could not load file or assembly 'Newtonsoft.Json, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6aeed' or one of its dependencies. HRESULT: 0x80131040: The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference

We never used JSON nor Newtonsoft.Json. Inspecting the Studio installation folder, one can find a dll file with the same name, but it's in version 11.0.2. Does the API still reference an old version of the dll? And is it possible to fix it without a hassle?

Unfortunately we can't use

public ReadOnlyCollection<ServerBasedTranslationMemory> GetTranslationMemories(TranslationMemoryProperties additionalProperties);

anymore, at least the problem occurs trying to refresh Translation Memories.

Best Regards,

Hendrik

Testing my plugin before publishing to the AppStore?

Todd Gillies — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 08:40:26 GMT

Hello! I recently built a buggy version of a Trados Studio 2017 plugin, and asked for it to be published in the AppStore.

It was published, and was available for download for a short time.

Then, someone from SDL tested it and found it actually didn't work with Trados Studio 2017, as it was supposed to. (I had referenced older versions of the API in the code, totally my mistake).

Now, about a week later, I have what appears, on my computer, to be a perfectly-working plugin! I installed the latest Service Release of Trados and Multiterm, updated my API references, and I think I'm good to go!

Before I take the leap of asking the AppStore people to publish my plugin yet again, I was hoping someone could test it for me, just to make sure it works on other peoples' computers, in other environments, perhaps with other versions of Windows. I'd hate for it to be found buggy again...

How does one go about getting their plugin tested before publication? Thank you in advance for the advice.

-- Todd

MT Enhanced Plugin: First 10 segments are treated wrongly: Translation will be inserted into the wrong segments!

Rainer Leukel — Thu, 23 May 2019 09:35:47 GMT

Hello,

there is a strange behavior regarding the first 10 segments:
Some segments will be not translated, or will be translated with the content of other target segments!

As you can see in the attached screenshot, segment 2 is populated with the target of segment 10.

In addition, the MT proposal for other segments are applied to the target segments in an interactive mode, and not in batch mode.

Reason for this strange behavior is a bug workaround in MtTranslationProviderLanguageDirection.cs:

...

// because of the following bug LG-15128 where mask parameters are true for both CM and the actual TU to be updated which cause an unnecessary call for CM segment

//we take only the last translation unit because the first one is CM

//this workaround works only when LookAhead option is disabled from Studio

var results = new List<SearchResults>();

if (!mask.Any(m => m.Equals(false)) && mask.Length > 1)

{

var lastTu = translationUnits[translationUnits.Length - 1];

var result = SearchTranslationUnit(settings, lastTu);

results.Add(null);

results.Add(result);

}

...

I simply disabled this and it seems to work correct, the bug seems not to be there anymore!

This problem occurs still in the latest Studio 2017 and Studio 2019 version (4.3.3).

Can somebody please check this and modify the App accordingly?

Any help is appreciated!

Regards

Rainer

Help witht SDL Trados Studio templates for the just released Visual Studio 2019

Former Member — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 18:14:18 GMT

You can find it in the Microsoft Visual Studio marketplace: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items

However 1) in Visual Studio 2019, Extensions is now in the top-level menu and not as part of Tools, so the instructions should be updated; 2) The VSIX installer says is already installed and 3) this extension is not found in the Extensions Manager / Visual Studio Marketplace.

Number Verifier custom settings

Yasuhiko Yamazaki — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 02:46:06 GMT

Hello. I've installed the Number Verifier (for Trados 2019）. When checking the settings, there are some custom settings, such as "Alphanumeric custom separators", "Custom separators" for thousands separators and decimal separators (source/target).

I checked the Number Verifier help, but I cannot figure out what we can do using those custom settings and what we need to input for those settings appropriately.
Would you please tell me about the features as well as some examples (what we need to input in those settings)?
(I found out the regular expression cannot be used in those settings as we found other inquiry posted on the SDL Communty.)

Regards,

Yasuhiko Yamazaki