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  • Filter segments by format such as highlight, font color, size etc.

    • Idea Delivered Partially on
    • 2 Comments
    Summary: allow segments to be filtered by font color, highlighting, bold, underline etc. I frequently get given projects by clients that may have a couple of thousand segments but in which there are only a small number of segments that actually need translating...
  • Dark Mode or night Mode in SDL

    • Under Community Review on
    • 6 Comments
    Can SDL editor template be made into Night mode as its very white no matter how much line colors are changed. If affects my vision.
  • Termbase "Hitlist Settings" in the sdlproj file

    • Planned for Future Release on
    • 7 Comments
    Hello, We need a modification on how the termbase hitlist is set. We have several termbases in which forbidden terms are entered and the translator has to see this during his work. In all versions since Studio 2009, the settings can only be modified...
  • Add document structure information to regular expressions in QA checker

    • Under Community Review on
    • 1 Comment
    Scenario: There are often different requirements for writing styles and number formats in headings/tables/paragraph texts. To run regex QA checks on these, we currently have to filter by document structure type in the advanced filter, lock irrelevant...
  • Option to search in-tag content when using RegEx in Studio's QA Checker

    • Under Community Review on
    • 0 Comments
    Hi! Please could the regex engine of Studio's QA Checker be enhanced so that it can also search through in-tag content? This would be a valuable addition to Studio's QA functionality as we have recently have encountered various errors and client preferences...
  • TM maintenance editor with more options.

    • Under Community Review on
    • 2 Comments
    I would like to see maintenance options in the TM editor to be able to clean it fast, without having to export it to an external editor and then re-importing it again. The options could include: - find segments where source and target are the same...
  • A better management for the users names (appearing in the remarks)

    • Under Community Review on
    • 10 Comments
    Let's take into consideration this case study. John is a professional translator, and he has a laptop. His laptop is a multipurpose laptop, there he has the videos from his family, his pictures, games and also he has there installed SDL Trados 2017...
  • Information about Studio version in SDLPROJ file

    • Under Community Review on
    • 0 Comments
    Hello! Currently there is no easy way to determin in which version of Studio project was created It may be relevant as functionalities change between updates, getting upgraded, change is behaviour (I just had an example on TM being applied differently...
  • None 100% Matched Segments/100% Matched Segments Highlighted in Output files

    • Under Community Review on
    • 4 Comments
    Hi, This is something that was discussed a while back, but I want to raise it in the community. One of the challenges of translation and review is where we have a condition or rule that states we must not update 100%/perfect matches. Now, where this...
  • Make Segmentation rules part of Project settings

    • Under Community Review on
    • 2 Comments
    For a lot of Projects, changes to the Segmentation rules are necessary. As working with serverbased TMs it is not a good idea to change the segmentation rules of TMs used by others at the same time. For projects with several languages and many TMs you...