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  • Add Word Count as Column in the Projects View

    Andreas Ljungström
    • Under Community Review on
    • 0 Comments
    Word counts are only visible in the e.g. the Confirmation Statistics and some of the other view parts that are typically below the Projects list. I suggest making the Project's total source word count an additional, optional, column that you could add...

  • Length restriction info directly visible in Document Structure column for XML file types

    Frank Lempp
    • Under Community Review on
    • 1 Comment
    I was wondering whether it would be possible to replace the code 'LN' in the Document Structure column of Studio editor by the actual number of characters allowed. If I have for instance an alternation of short texts allowing 40 characters and long...

  • 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...

  • Add cascading file types also for Excel and others - instead of forcing us to define the embedded content again

    Jerzy Czopik
    • Idea Delivered Partially on
    • 3 Comments
    It happens quite often - one gets an Excel (or Word or other) file with tags inside. Some of those are html, so cold be easily parsed with filter already present there. And when we parse embedded content of a xml file with html sometimes some elements...

  • Export of comments to Excel file

    Ute Schulze Pröbsting
    • Idea Delivered Partially on
    • 7 Comments
    It would be really helpful to be able to export all comments you add in the editor during translation so as to send them all to the customer for review. Currently, I still have to make a separate file with my comments or write them in an e-mail.

  • Suggestion of improvement on "Sentence was translated inconsistently" QA message

    Laura Marchante
    • Under Community Review on
    • 1 Comment
    Hello! Currently when you run the Studio verification and you double-click on an error of the "Sentence was translated inconsistently" type you get a screen with the source and target segments of the segment with the error: But I think it would...

  • Drag and drop, source to target

    Michael Friedli
    • Under Community Review on
    • 4 Comments
    As mentioned elsewhere in the SDL Community, it is highly desirable to be able to use the mouse to select text on the source side of Studio Editor and drag it to a specific point in the target text, thus copying it to that point. This functionality has...

  • 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...

  • Allow to select target languages per project file during project creation

    Lieven Lannoo
    • Under Community Review on
    • 1 Comment
    During project creation, we select the source and target languages first and then add the project files. It would be handy to be able to tick or untick target languages for some of the files during project creation. For example, if a client sends 5 English...

  • Split the sdlxliff file directly in the Editor

    Agenor Hofmann-Delbor
    • Under Community Review on
    • 1 Comment
    Large files are supposed to be pre-processed and split outside Studio, before converting them to sdlxliffs. However, in many cases you can't really guess something until the translation takes part - it would make sense to allow splitting the file even...