I've noticed that the projects which we create through our own automation tool and send to GroupShare are missing a TranslationMemorySetting, and I can't figure out why.

All our TMs are defined with the numerical FieldDefinition Auftragsnummer. When our automation tool creates a project it obtains this FieldDefinition from the TM and copies the definition, along with an assigned value, into the project's TranslationMemorySettings.

Here is the code:

private void UpdateTmField(IProject project,
                            ITranslationMemory tm,
                            string fieldName,
                            long orderId,
                            Language targetLanguage)
{
    Log.Info($"{nameof(UpdateTmField)}: {nameof(fieldName)} = \"{fieldName}\", {nameof(orderId)} = {orderId}, {nameof(targetLanguage)} = {targetLanguage}.");
 
    // first, create an IntFieldValue based upon the FieldDefinition in the TM
 
    var field = tm.FieldDefinitions[fieldName];
    if (field == null)
    {
        Log.Warn($"{nameof(UpdateTmField)}: The sought-after FieldDefinition, \"{fieldName}\" could not be found. Creating new FieldDefinition.");
 
        field = new FieldDefinition(fieldName, FieldValueType.Integer);
 
        // can't save if the TM is a ServerBasedTranslationMemory - only for FileBasedTranslationMemory
        if (tm.GetType() != typeof(ServerBasedTranslationMemory))
        {
            tm.FieldDefinitions.Add(field);
            tm.Save();
        }
    }
 
    var fv = (IntFieldValue) field.CreateValue();
    fv.Value = (int) orderId;
 
    // this FieldValue will now be stored in the project
 
    // get the TranslationMemorySettings from the project
 
    var settings = project.GetSettings(targetLanguage);
 
    if (settings.IsDefault)
    {
        Log.Warn($"{nameof(UpdateTmField)}: The obtained <settingsBundle> element was not for the specified target language.");
        return;
    }
 
    var tmSettings = settings.GetSettingsGroup<TranslationMemorySettings>();
    if (tmSettings == null)
    {
        Log.Warn($"{nameof(UpdateTmField)}: TranslationMemorySettings could not be obtained.");
        return;
    }
 
    tmSettings.ProjectSettings.Value = new FieldValues {fv};
 
    project.UpdateSettings(targetLanguage, settings);
 
    Log.Info($"{nameof(UpdateTmField)}: TM field has been modified with details of this order.");
}

That code runs as I would expect it to, and the log file contains

UpdateTmField: fieldName = "Auftragsnummer", orderId = 114912, targetLanguage = fr-CH.
UpdateTmField: TM field has been modified with details of this order.

But when I open the project (in Trados) from GroupShare the Auftragsnummer field is blank.

During the operation of our automation tool a local FileBasedProject is created. If I open this local project in Trados then I can see that the Auftragsnummer field is present

The local .sdlproj file contains this

    <SettingsGroup Id="TranslationMemorySettings">
        <Setting Id="ProjectSettings">
            <FieldValues xmlns:i="www.w3.org/.../XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="schemas.datacontract.org/.../Sdl.LanguagePlatform.TranslationMemory">
                <Values>
                    <FieldValue i:type=":IntFieldValue">
                        <Name>Auftragsnummer</Name>
                        <ValueType>Integer</ValueType>
                        <Value>114912</Value>
                    </FieldValue>
                </Values>
            </FieldValues>
        </Setting>
    </SettingsGroup>

Whereas the GroupShare-obtained .sdlproj file has replaced the above with this

    <SettingsGroup Id="TranslationMemorySettings">
        <Setting Id="TranslationFullSearch">True</Setting>
        <Setting Id="TranslationSearchMainTranslationMemories">True</Setting>
        <Setting Id="LookupMtEvenIfTmHasMatch">True</Setting>
    </SettingsGroup>

This suggests that GroupShare is stripping out such FieldValues – if not the entire TranslationMemorySettings <SettingsGroup> element.

Can anyone explain why GroupShare is doing this, and/or any way of persisting this field value upon upload to GroupShare?