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  • HTML Entity Conversion similar to XML2; allowing Read as character and write as character for any/all characters

    Octavio Ramos
    • Under Community Review on
    • 2 Comments
    Currently, in order for HTML and Embedded HTML parsers to normalize entities as the character itself (i.e. ® converted to ® instead of an inline tag) you must enable entity conversion. However, this means that when the file is written out it will...

  • Add the language code of a return package to the return package file name by default

    AnonymousUser
    • Under Community Review on
    • 1 Comment
    When creating project packages, the project manager has two options: creating one package with all the project languages (one or more) or creating a package for every project language. Regardless of this setting, return packages always feature the project...

  • Perform MT look-up on demand only (for the active segment)

    Emma Goldsmith
    • Under Community Review on
    • 1 Comment
    At the moment, MT can be implemented in three ways: pretranslate a whole file; display in the Translation Results window; automatically apply in the active segment after look-up. However, a fourth option is needed: perform MT look-up on demand for the...

  • Automated saving after "Verify" (F8) action

    David Valdivia Vera
    • Under Community Review on
    • 2 Comments
    Since Verify task is performed at later stage of a translation project, it would be really helpful if this Verify (F8) would also trigger an ordinary Save operation (apart from Autosave, I mean) in the background. It would make sense to keep your translated...

  • Save as TMX option in the Alignment

    Yuriy Belik
    • Under Community Review on
    • 5 Comments
    Please add "save as TMX" option for Studio alignment to use the aligned document result in both TM directions or make Studio import sdlalign files like TMX respecting the TM's language direction. Use case is simple: The aligned document can be useful...

  • Determine SDLXLIFF files on which version of Studio was used to save the file as latest

    Panjawan Kositsakul
    • Under Community Review on
    • 0 Comments
    Currently, there is no way to determine the SDLXLIFF files on which version of Studio was used to save the files as latest. It's hard to investigate when has problem with translation files, whether the SDLXLIFF had been translated on the right Studio...

  • Bilingual Excel Files with more than one column

    Alireza Nadry
    • Under Community Review on
    • 2 Comments
    Currently, SDL Trados has the great feature of translating bilingual excel files. So, you can only translate one-column excel file. But when there are more than one column you need to translate, there is no option to specify those columns. As you can...

  • Simplify adding new files to an existing project

    Agenor Hofmann-Delbor
    • Planned for Future Release on
    • 1 Comment
    Many users get confused when they need to add new files to an existing project. Switching the language to source language, running the Prepare for translation batch task etc. This really should be a one click operation (maybe with tiny option to run the...

  • Get Specific Version for multiple files for project published on Groupshare

    Natasha Guimarães
    • Under Community Review on
    • 0 Comments
    Hi, team, Currently, we're only able to get one file's specific version at a time within Trados Studio. As you can imagine, it would be unpractical to download each file for projects with multiple xliffs, and since the project goes straight to the...

  • Multilingual Excel File Type

    Julia Skowronek
    • Under Community Review on
    • 5 Comments
    The introduction of the Bilingual Excel File Type was a huge leap forward! But customers often require the translation in Excel to several languages, often including some translations already. In this case either you create an individual project for...