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Excluding a given segment from auto-propagation

Hi everybody,

I am a huge fan of auto-propagation, but it happens I want to exclude a given segment from the auto-propagation, because the context requires I translate it differently of other like segments.

In practice, I would like to be able to translate or change a specific without propagating the specific translation or change to all the segments down the road that were auto-propagated from a segment located higher in the document. 

For instance, in the picture below, the segment was propagated as "É.A.U. (Dubaï)" since it is written this way elsewhere in the document. But in this specific table, I would need to be able to write it "É.A.U. – Dubaï", for consistency reasons with the rest of that one table, being sure that it will not inadvertently revert to the first format if I change anything elsewhere.

Screenshot of Trados Studio segment with auto-propagation, showing 'E.A.U. (Dubai)' with a warning icon indicating a potential issue.

Would it be possible to exclude a specific segment from auto-propagation with, for instance, a simple right-click? 

Thanks in advance

Philippe Riondel
  • in reply to Christine Eulriet

    Basically, given what we have now in Studio, you can press Ctrl+Shift+U to store a second translation in your TM (if you want/need that behaviour) and then manually change the segment status to Translated. This would keep the following reps intact.
    If you don't want/need to store the second translation in your TM, then just manually change the segment status to Translated.

    If you use AHK, I can suggest a script to do that task in one key stroke (F12):
    *I am not sure about versions 2022 and 2024, whether their exe file name includes SDL or not. Probably you may need to remove "SDL" from the first line to read as IfWinActive, ahk_exe TradosStudio.exe.

    IfWinActive, ahk_exe SDLTradosStudio.exe
    F12::
    SendInput, {Alt}hut
    Sleep 300
    Send, ^+u
    #IfWinActive
    Return

  • in reply to Stepan Konev

    Thanks for this info. I knew there was an option, I came across it once, but I couldn't find it on the go as this is not my main tool

  • in reply to Jerzy Czopik

    If you mean memoQ, it can do it in a double click. Just double click the arrow down icon against the segment that you want to translate in a different way and confirm your unique translation. It will get stored in a TM as a second translation without affecting the following instances.

  • in reply to Jerzy Czopik

    Hi Jerzy,

    Of course we are happy, we all still work with Studio. But I thought, this is the place where to suggest improvements, right?

    I'd like to detail a bit: I'm with you: we remain the instance to decide which segment will be auto-propagated and which not.

    To me however the question is not if but how. Some ways prove to be easier than other, and generally I prefer the easier ones. Especially when it comes to productivity or avoiding errors (we are talking about long files, not the one or two pager you can easily handle even without the auto-propagate functionality).

    Any check I do not need to double on, is a time saving.

    And re. your other ideaOk hand: you have my vote already