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  • [Termbase] Add Background Color for the Terms having System Status: Preferred (Green) and System Status: Forbidden (Red)

    Jay Chen
    • Under Community Review on
    • 1 Comment
    I noticed that in the term recognition windows in the Online Editor, terms having the Status: Preferred are marked with a green block background color, and, terms having the Status: Forbidden are marked with a red block background color. This makes it...

  • Finding Help in the Knowledgebase and the Help

    Paul
    • Under Community Review on
    • 0 Comments
    It would be a nice feature if errors encountered whilst using the software could have the relevant information captured from the error stack and then a search automatically applied to the knowledgebase and the help and then provide helpful links to relevant...

  • Run batch tasks on multiple projects

    Julian Hamm
    • Under Community Review on
    • 3 Comments
    It is currently not possible to run batch tasks on multiple projects in Trados Studio. Having this implemented would speed up processes like pre-translating and analyzing project files as well as creating and re-importing bilingual review files, amongst...

  • Copy source tags to target column with one keystroke or button

    AnonymousUser
    • Under Community Review on
    • 2 Comments
    Several CAT tools have this very useful feature: with one keystroke or button I can copy ONLY the tags in the source column to the target column. This allows me to then translate my content around the tags. Presently, with QuickTag Insert, I can only...

  • Retain sdxliff after generating target translation

    Spiros Doikas
    • Idea Delivered Partially on
    • 1 Comment
    If one selects "Generate target translation" for a bilingual file, and the has to edit that file for some reason, there is a prompt "Do you want to revert the native file to SDXLIFF format before opening?". I see this as a superfluous prompt, perform...

  • Add formatting to comments

    Margus Enno
    • Under Community Review on
    • 2 Comments
    One thing in Studio I use regularly to communicate with my reviewers are the comments. However, in the current version, they are rather basic. What I wish for them is the possibility to format text in them. Think MS Word, especially the later versions...

  • Provide a warning when switching on "merge over paragraph breaks"

    Jerzy Czopik
    • Under Community Review on
    • 0 Comments
    It is a great option, which works usually as expected. However, in certain formats like xliff or xml a file structure damage may appear, so merging should be done only with checking the target file for usability. In formats like Word merging is usually...

  • "Smart quotes" (as well as other "Replace text as you type") should be available also when track changes is active

    Riccardo Schiaffino
    • Planned for Future Release on
    • 0 Comments
    Studio 2015 (and now 2017) introduced automatic smart quotes as an option. I.e., You type the straight single or double quotes from the keyboard, and Studio automatically replaces them with curly quotes. So far, so good, but a lthough a translator may...

  • Select all files in batch mode

    Alba Rosa Ziliani
    • Under Community Review on
    • 5 Comments
    Problem title: File selection in batch mode Description: When trying to batch edit a project’s files, all files for all languages appear in a selection window and can be ticked or unticked. There is, however, no option to “Select all” or “Unselect...

  • Locked Segments in Studio Analysis Statistics of Files View

    ChristinaK
    • Planned for Future Release on
    • 2 Comments
    After activating the option "Report locked segments as a separate category", locked segments will be reported correctly as locked segments in the analysis report (and also in the filter results of the Editor view), but not in the Analysis Statistics tab...