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Advanced Display Filter - Add a library of filters - rather than saving and importing one by one

Since it is possible to save settings in ADF 2.0 in Trados, and to import settings into it, would it not be possible to extend ADF 2.0 to allow users to create a library of the commonly used filters.

For example, I have 6-8 such filters that I have saved that I frequently use on a fairly regular basis (drawing on a number of RegExes in the target text) which it would be nice to be able to call up more easily than by importing them after saving them initially.

Michael Bailey

  •    I think that also a cronology would be of great help. At the moment, for any kind of filter in ADF (either single criterium or multicriteria) you cannot toggle meaning that you can define the filter, apply or reverse apply, and that's it. You can leave it applied or clear the filter. If there was a cronology within the same Editor session, once you have cleared you could easily reapply any of the filters used without having to manually select the criteria or re-load every time.

  • Great idea! Some clients consistently send me TA- or NMT-pretranslated projects, and I systematically erase those pretranslations to translate from scratch, which is faster and better from my view point. Rather than setting the filter everytime to erase the target pretranslated segments, I would greatly appreciate to be able to preset and reuse such a filter. 

  • in reply to Michael Bailey

    Hi Michael - it's probably best to see if we can provide this as part of the Advanced Display Filter capability, I am not sure you can plug into that like you can with the Trados Studio platform at large. I am discussing options internally to see if there is any way we can add this at least in the medium term. Also adding   as an FYI. Thanks, Daniel

  • Would there be a way to get around this with a plugin (if one exists) - as I am starting to win the battle to use plugins? The issue is getting more pressing due to some publications that have come on line that I could really benefit from this option.