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  • XLIFF Import for TMs

    • Not Considering
    • 2 Comments
    In addition to allowing an SDLTM to be updated with the contents of a TMX, TTX, ITD, SDLXLIFF, it would be a nice enhancement to increase support for XLIFF in general and allow the import of a correctly formed XLIFF into the translation memory directly...
  • Ctrl+Comma should not include single-digit numbers

    • Under Community Review
    • 0 Comments
    If there is a single digit number in the source text, this is included in the drop down box when Ctrl+Comma is pressed to add tags to the target. My suggestion is to only include numbers of two digits or more in this list. Individual numbers are obviously...
  • Studio should perform normalization for locked content in XML files

    • Under Community Review
    • 1 Comment
    Right now, when you lock content, because it is tagged as not translatable, Studio does not perform any whitespace normalization, so it will keep the spaces you have in the source file. SDL Support reports that this is because they are trying to preserve...
  • change color of progress bars in file view

    • Under Community Review
    • 0 Comments
    Hi, Could you please add an option to change the color of the progress bars in file view (x% completed) It would be nice to be able to define colors for maybe every 10% step. 0-9% = red by default (all default colors can be changed by user) 10...
  • Use Structure Information Description in document explorer

    • Under Community Review
    • 0 Comments
    Make it possible to use the description from the Structure Information in the document explorer.
  • File Type -> Parser settings: Need ability to edit multiple rules at once

    • Under Community Review
    • 1 Comment
    The Rules list in the Parser settings can already be multi-selected. It would be great to be able to Edit multiple elements at once. For example, in the screenshot below, I would have liked to update all the rules currently set to "Always translatable...
  • QA Checker enhancement

    • Under Community Review
    • 0 Comments
    If there are the following features, it would be very nice. QA Checker should recognize non-formatting tags. Details window does not highlight the problem texts that a translator to re-validate for the fix. Both Source and Target text should be...
  • Please change default spell check settings to spellcheck uppercase words

    • Under Community Review
    • 0 Comments
    Hello! It would be great if the spell check of upper case words can be turned on by default in Studio (untick “Ignore ALL CAPS”). Now the option is ticked by default. We have had client complaints for spelling mistakes in headings, which are whole...
  • Add language code to filenames after Generate Target Translations (batch)

    • Under Community Review
    • 4 Comments
    It would be very helpful to have an option to add a suffix (e.g. the language code) when generating target files in bulk (through a Batch Task). I sometimes have 50 small files that need to be delivered with a language code at the end of the name, but...
  • Allow columns in Word document tables to be specified for Studio source and target

    • Under Community Review
    • 1 Comment
    I am often presented with Microsoft Word documents for translation, in which there are two or more columns, with the source in one column and a semi-translated "target" in another column. Translating only the source in Studio does not present a problem...