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  • XLIFF file type filter | Addition of option to enable/disable "Retain Studio target comments in the target file"

    • Under Community Review
    • 2 Comments
    The XLIFF file type filter is by default retaining any translator comment in the generated target file which is not always desirable and resulted in a client complaint due an import failure when the translator's comments were retained in the delivered...
  • Enhancemens to TM view

    • Under Community Review
    • 1 Comment
    These enhancements to TM view should help users perform TM maintenance more efficiently: When Show Whitespace Characters is enabled in Editor, both half-width spaces ( ) and full-width spaces (   ) are represented by similar centered dots, making...
  • Instant Cancel Button

    • Under Community Review
    • 3 Comments
    Hi! I think the Cancel button in the Project Wizard is very frustrating. It should work instantly. Instead, it can take literally ten minutes. For me, Cancel is either "Oops, I forgot something", or "This is way too long, there must be something wrong...
  • Allow copy&paste multiple lines into selected consecutive segments in Editor like SDLX.

    • Under Community Review
    • 0 Comments
    For example, copy 3 lines from text editor, and select segment#1-3 in Studio Editor, then paste 3 lines into each segment...
  • Searching for specific tag types

    • Under Community Review
    • 4 Comments
    Hello. It would be great if there was added functionality in Studio to search for specific tags. I'd like to search for, and add QA checks for, missing spaces around conref tags in DITA files. Thanks Luke
  • Searching for the right ideas

    • Under Community Review
    • 0 Comments
    Is it possible to search for ideas by subject? I can't find a search button or field on this webpage. I’d like to submit some ideas, but it might be good to go through the current stack of 438 ideas to see if certain ideas have already been submitted...
  • Choose Studio and MultiTerm Installation Folders

    • Not Considering
    • 2 Comments
    In a world where SSDs are still much more expensive than hard drives (around 5 times per GB), many user of desktop PCs opt to boot from a small SSD containing the operating system, and then install programs and data on a much larger HDD. The Studio...
  • Accessing to comments when right-clicking on an irregular word

    • Under Community Review
    • 5 Comments
    Hi Group, Studio generally allows to access and edit an existing comment by right-clicking on one of the commented words, through an "Edit comment" popup menu option (Modifier le commentaire in French): Unfortunately, it does not work when you right...
  • Intelligent merging of text snippets - smarter segmentation engine

    • Under Community Review
    • 0 Comments
    See https://community.sdl.com/product-groups/translationproductivity/f/subtitling/33803/segmentation-in-subtitling-plugin-app for what initiated this idea. Basically, there are translation scenarios where sentences are broken down into snippets, that...
  • Filtering function at Concordance Search window

    • Under Community Review
    • 0 Comments
    Hello, it would be nice to have a filtering function at Concordance Search window in Trados Studio. This would enable us filter TM matches based on user ID or date during translation and gain us time. We need to prioritize entries added after client...