Hello Carol Pinheiro

Are you trying to create a local or cloud project in Studio?

We have created a number of Wiki articles, to help you understand and use SDL Trados Studio 2021/Trados Live 

https://community.sdl.com/product-groups/translationproductivity/w/customer-experience/5516/using-sdl-trados-live

These step by step Wiki's should help you create projects, whether locally, and or in the cloud.

Please let me know if you need further help.

I am trying to create a local. And I am even trying to attach here a screenshot and it doesn't allow me ...

Hello Carol Pinheiro ,

Please save the image to your desktop and use the Insert Option (you see when replying)

Now you should be able to post the images.

yes, it asks me for a file/URL, and I can't copy and paste the file address... I am feeling stupid... 

Yey!

Hello Carol Pinheiro ,

Thanks for the screenshots- these are always really useful.

These show you are in the Translation Memories view-

Please close the Project Settings Window and then switch to the PROJECTS view 

Now you will see a list of your projects-

Select your project (double click)

This will open the files view - select the file(s) and open in Editor.

Now you can open the project settings if you wish

A little tip-

In your project settings- You have Language Cloud as the second resource 

If you click on the highlighted arrow, you can move (Language Cloud) to the bottom of the list.

This means Studio will look at your TM's first- before using Language Cloud- ensuring you don't use your free allocation of characters too quickly

eg 

Now click OK to return to the Editor and you can begin your translation.

Hope this helps.

Hello Carol Pinheiro ,

Thanks for the screenshots- these are always really useful.

These show you are in the Translation Memories view-

Please close the Project Settings Window and then switch to the PROJECTS view 

Now you will see a list of your projects-

Select your project (double click)

This will open the files view - select the file(s) and open in Editor.

Now you can open the project settings if you wish

A little tip-

In your project settings- You have Language Cloud as the second resource 

If you click on the highlighted arrow, you can move (Language Cloud) to the bottom of the list.

This means Studio will look at your TM's first- before using Language Cloud- ensuring you don't use your free allocation of characters too quickly

eg 

Now click OK to return to the Editor and you can begin your translation.

Hope this helps.

Hi, thank you very much. I was doing exactly this, but it wasn't populating the TM. Also, it wasn't allowing me to create a termbase. What I did was:

And now I can see the TM populated 

Thank you very much for your replies!!

Hi! Actually it's not really populating anymore. I am going crazy trying to understand the program..

Carol Pinheiro

You seem to be confusing translation memories and termbases which are different things. You are also looking on the translation memory maintenance editor as opposed to seeing your translation memory in the file editor of your translation.

I think it would help you to read through some getting started material or watch some videos before diving in and trying to understand by playing around.

I’ll dig out some links for you that should help and post them shortly.

I know they are 2 different thins. I have looked into guidelines and videos, but as I said, they are for previous versions, but still, I have been watching. There are things that I really don't understand, like what you just mentioned, where I should be looking at the TM.

Carol Pinheiro

Carol Pinheiro said:

I have looked into guidelines and videos, but as I said, they are for previous versions

Generally there is little difference in how these work.  Trados Studio 2021 adds additional features for creating Cloud based projects but you can still do the same things, in exactly the same way, that you could in the previous versions.

Carol Pinheiro said:

There are things that I really don't understand

That's fine... keep asking your questions.  It's best to create a new thread for each NEW question so we ca make the answers as verified if they help you.  This makes it easier for other users who may have the same questions as you since they will find the question and the verified answer in one thread.

I really like that you are asking questions in here!

Carol Pinheiro said:

where I should be looking at the TM.

The view you are using at the moment is more of a maintenance view where you can see all the content in your TM.  If you look in here also pay attention to the fact this is "paged".  So you'll only see the first however many you set:

If you want to see whether your TUs are being added as you work the best place is to see this in the TM as you translate:

I confirm the segment (Ctrl+Enter) and then if I move back into this segment I can see the result coming from my TM:

If this doesn't happen then you should go to your project settings:

Now navigate to the location of your TMs:

Does this help?

Again! thank you very much!