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  • Propagate silently

    Spiros Doikas
    • Under Community Review
    • 0 Comments
    When propagating a match the system often halts. Carry out the propagation process silently without obstructing the user's workflow. This is a very similar pet peeve to the autosave which produces a progress bar instead of doing it in the background without...

  • Excel file type: include formulas for translation

    Ulrike Michiels
    • Accepted, Not Yet Planned
    • 2 Comments
    Please add to the Excel file type the option to include formulas for Translation.

  • Filter for Wordpress WPML XLIFF files

    Tiago Moreira
    • Accepted, Not Yet Planned
    • 3 Comments
    WPML xliffs are an old problem that can only be fully solved in Studio with workarounds like creating custom XML filetypes. Since it is possible to process the CDATA sections by enabling embedded HTML processing, the mess of putting HTML and text in...

  • Showing the synonym when adding a term in Multiterm termbase from Studio

    Manuella Lange
    • Under Community Review
    • 1 Comment
    When you add a new term in Multiterm termbase from Studio and if it is a synonym you are prompted with a window "would you like to add to an existing entry".I often hesitate to say yes because I do not know what the entry is (meaning that it can be a...

  • Enable regular expressions for TM Filter conditions

    Bart Van Maele
    • Under Community Review
    • 0 Comments
    Dear SDL Community, With the release of Trados Studio 2019 came the ability to use regular expressions in the TM Filter: However, it is not possible to use regEx in the conditions for the filter. If for example I would like to export only the...

  • InDesign preview

    Natalia Levitina
    • Under Community Review
    • 2 Comments
    There needs to be a way to preview InDesign files processed by WorldServer in both WorldServer and Trados Studio

  • Better support for comments in Trados Studio

    Geoff Trousselot
    • Under Community Review
    • 2 Comments
    As an in-house translator required to respond to tens of comments per translation, the current method of opening up each comment for editing is cumbersome. If the demand exists, I propose a comment response view mode that enables filtering of comments...

  • Simplify adding file-based TMs for language pairs using different translation providers

    Bart Van Maele
    • Under Community Review
    • 0 Comments
    Dear SDL Community, When creating a project from scratch (i.e. not based on a previous project or a custom project template) with a large amount of language pairs, it is quite cumbersome to add translation providers for specific language pairs. Four...

  • Notify of wrong target language code in XLF/XLIFF files

    Bart Van Maele
    • Under Community Review
    • 1 Comment
    Hi, If you process XLF files, Trados Studio will notify you that the detected target language does not match that expected by the project when you open a target language SDLXLIFF: Wouldn't it make more sense to have this error when copying to...

  • Redesign external review

    Julien Poireau
    • Under Community Review
    • 4 Comments
    Hi! External review is often required by some clients. Sadly, the bilingual Word approach is far from being stable and reliable. Three options: 1. Design a new feature from scratch (Excel please !) 2. Add a warning message, something like "Don...