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  • More flexible XLIFF parser behavior - option to ignore target entries

    • Under Community Review
    • 1 Comment
    Problem and use case: We have clients hosting websites using WordPress with our SDL connectors solution providing WPML to TMS integration. We love this integration with WordPress at large, but we struggle with localization unfriendly XLIFF files from...
  • allow-idml-translators-to-insert-index-marker-sort-order-tags

    • Under Community Review
    • 0 Comments
    The InDesign (*.idml) filter needs a mechanism for translators to specify the sort order of index markers by adding <so> tags. QuickInsert --> Insert Tag --> Index entry sort order (Apply sort order to index entry) is currently not available to add <so...
  • Pasting different lines of texts in multiple rows, at once, in the TARGET column

    • Under Community Review
    • 4 Comments
    Pasting different lines of texts in multiple rows, at once, in the TARGET column WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT This is important because can save hours of time when delivering a translation with close deadlines. This feature is very useful when translating...
  • Default path for return packages

    • Under Community Review
    • 1 Comment
    Hi, When one creates a return package, the default path that appears in the dialog box is often the path where the last project's return package was stored. Therefore, it is easy to send inadvertently the new return package to that wrong former destination...
  • Enable setting deadlines at the individual file level

    • Under Community Review
    • 2 Comments
    Clients often send packages with multiple files, each with a different deadline. Currently, we can only set deadlines at the project level. It would be very useful to be able to enter deadlines at the file level as well.
  • Source = Target

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    • Idea Delivered Partially
    • 3 Comments
    I would like to propose a display filter for Studio in which source = target. In most cases, these have been created inadvertently and therefore it would be great if you could plainly see if there are any such segments in a file. Sometimes we receive...
  • File type definition for TMX - feature enhancement

    • Under Community Review
    • 2 Comments
    Dear Community, We often work with TM clean up requests based on updates to terminology and/or style guides. We use this plugin here: https://appstore.sdl.com/language/app/file-type-definition-for-tmx/317/ We love that we can work directly with...
  • Store comments in the translation memory

    • Under Community Review
    • 4 Comments
    Currently only the SDLXLIFF files can store the comments, but it will be useful if each record of the translation memory can store the comments. Use case: When revising a document, the trados projects will be different. In the project for the original...
  • It would be good if we could add comments to Source segments in an SDLXLIFF

    • Under Community Review
    • 2 Comments
    Hi guys, It would be wonderful to be able to place a comment in the Source segment in order to point out a mistake to the client. It is of course possible to copy and paste the source segment to a list separately to use later, or to add a comment...
  • segmentation rules

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    • 0 Comments
    Hi, I would like to be able to deactivate specific segmentation rules for TM if they are not needed instead of having to delete them Example: one of my clients sends translations that only need default segmentations rules. From time to time they send...