AddTerm disabled in SDL Trados Studio 2019 SR2 for non Multiterm glossaries?

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I use a different TerminologyProvider than Multiterm and since updating to Studio 2019 SR2 adding terms to my glossaries is no longer possible via my ITerminologyProviderViewerWinFormsUI implemetation.

Neither the shortcut nor the options on the ribbon or in the context menu work (the latter being disabled/greyed out).

From what I can tell AddTerm/AddAndEditTerm won't be triggered any more (breakpoints won't be hit) unless a Multiterm glossary ("termbase") is added as the default provider. Of course all terms then go into that termbase instead of my glossaries.

Can anyone confirm?

Is this a bug in SR2 or by design (to discourage the use of alternative terminology sources)?

Florentina Caputa · Accepted Answer

Hello Angela Sigee , 
 
 I have investigated this and starting with Studio 2019, if you want to have the Add new term/Add quick term available, you need to override the IsReadOnly property in the class which implements the AbstractTerminologyProvider. 
 By default, the property is set to true, so you need to set to false. 
 Bellow, you can see the updated code of ExcelTerminologyProvider app, regarding this functionality.

Note: I will commit these changes in ExcelTerminologyProvider app, so until the end of the day, the changes will be available also in Sdl Community Github repository. 
 
 Kind regards, 
 Florentina Lucia

Michael Bailey · Answer

Just a thought - I had this issue after the SR2 update to Studio Professional for using add term, albeit with a file-based MultiTerm termbase. It turned out that the issue was solved once I was given write access to MultiTerm's settings file. Our IT changed my privileges to C:\ProgramData\SDL on my laptop and the issue was solved.

Paul · Answer

Angela Sigee 
 I didn't think there had been changes here but I have asked the question. I tested IATE which was built prior to SR2 and this was fine (read only termbase however), but the Excel Terminology provider doesn't work for me now. I imagine someone will look at this on Monday and help you with a knowledgeable response. 
 Angela Sigee said: Is this a bug in SR2 or by design (to discourage the use of alternative terminology sources)? 
 That would be crazy....we built the Terminology API because we encourage them!!

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