Some insights onf my experiencie with Language Cloud

Dear Colleagues:

Hi, it's nice to e-greet you again! Martin here, I've been a member of the Beta community for a while now thanks to the amazing , yayy!

After a while, today I've decided to do a re-take on my Language Cloud experience, and after some 1000 confirmed words, here are some of my observations. I hope this is the right place to post this.

First of all, I'm trying to go slowly, and my overall impression is I really like it Smiley

I noted that I can't find some of the features that I'm very used to deploying in the desktop app and I have noticed some unusual behaviors. I understand that probably some of the features mentioned are there somewhere and I will eventually find them just with usage or after some research, please note that this is only my first (constructive) impression. Here I go:

Stuff I haven't found (yet):
Autopropagation settings: prompt user before propagating; automatically retrieving newly translated 100% matches to draft segments upon clicking on them

View word count inside Editor next to percentage / Confirmation statistics view or tab in the file or projects section
Center active row (event at times the active segment remains out of sight)
Fragment matching and Autosuggest settings
Highlight text across segments not available

Some unusual behaviors I have observed:
Ctrl End takes you to the final position of the segment vs. Ctrl Shift End takes you to the final position of the current line (same with Home). Sometimes it works like this or "exchanged" and sometimes it works just like in Windows.
Text color when there is highlight: I have played with the viewing options (white, light, dark). My text had some grey text highlighted in white (ridiculous, right?, haha) and at first I saw everything white in the Editor segment. After toggling viewing modes (white, light, dark) and closing and opening again, it kind of normalized (white background with grey text, best viewed in white mode).
Source text contextual menu (right clic on highlighted text): upong slecting text, right clic deselects and shows up contextual menu; only works with keyboard contextual menu button (right hand on the Windows keyboard next to the Ctrl key); also, there is specifically a very useful shortcut for "Google lookup" that I have tried, maybe a default keyboard shortcut will help a lot; target segment ok but no Google shortcut
Source segment: clic to position cursor or double clic to select element (word or other): not working (at least today); if I want to select text I need to specifically slide the cursor over it and then it selects
Cursor sometimes gets stuck at end or beginning of segment (specifically, I cant move to the next or previous segment with the arrow keys, only with mouse)

That's if for now. Please let me know if this is of your interest or if it's too much.

Thanks for the attention and have a great weekend!

Martín

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  • Hi  

    just few quick notes on features you didn't find:

    - autopropagation settings - this is planned in near future

    - automatically retrieving newly translated when clicking on segment - you mean automatically overwrite if there is better match in TM?

    - word count, confirmation statistics - we don't have this view inside editor yet, it's part of the document details view in your inbox

    - center active row - not sure what doesn't work based on you description, active segment is always in the visible view - e.g. when using go to, or using side bar and navigating to comments etc.

    - fragment matching - if you get matches returned for the segment, they are available, basically if you can see them in Lookups panel they are also in the smart actions

    - higlight across segments - you can select multiple segments by CTRL+ clicking to the number column of the segments (SHIFT+click works as  well)

    - autosuggest - planned in future

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  • Dear Patrik Mazanek:

    Hi and thanks for the replies and for sharing the planned updates. I re-reply between lines. Thanks!

    - automatically retrieving newly translated when clicking on segment - you mean automatically overwrite if there is better match in TM?

    Yes, it didn't work this time but maybe I need to give it another try. 

    - word count, confirmation statistics - we don't have this view inside editor yet, it's part of the document details view in your inbox

    Is there a chance to include this at some point? It's one of the most annoying things about the memoQ interface, both locally and online, hahaha.

    - center active row - not sure what doesn't work based on you description, active segment is always in the visible view - e.g. when using go to, or using side bar and navigating to comments etc.

    I have tried this and in my Editor windows it kind of goes nuts :S I can record my screen to show you if you want.

    - fragment matching - if you get matches returned for the segment, they are available, basically if you can see them in Lookups panel they are also in the smart actions

    Let me reconsider this because I've noticed that at times it has to do with my wifi connection.

    - higlight across segments - you can select multiple segments by CTRL+ clicking to the number column of the segments (SHIFT+click works as  well)

    Thanks for recalling that! I forgot, and I was also being a little fussy, sorry!

    - autosuggest - planned in future

    Great news!

    That's it for now. Thanks again!

    Martín

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  • Dear Patrik Mazanek:

    Hi and thanks for the replies and for sharing the planned updates. I re-reply between lines. Thanks!

    - automatically retrieving newly translated when clicking on segment - you mean automatically overwrite if there is better match in TM?

    Yes, it didn't work this time but maybe I need to give it another try. 

    - word count, confirmation statistics - we don't have this view inside editor yet, it's part of the document details view in your inbox

    Is there a chance to include this at some point? It's one of the most annoying things about the memoQ interface, both locally and online, hahaha.

    - center active row - not sure what doesn't work based on you description, active segment is always in the visible view - e.g. when using go to, or using side bar and navigating to comments etc.

    I have tried this and in my Editor windows it kind of goes nuts :S I can record my screen to show you if you want.

    - fragment matching - if you get matches returned for the segment, they are available, basically if you can see them in Lookups panel they are also in the smart actions

    Let me reconsider this because I've noticed that at times it has to do with my wifi connection.

    - higlight across segments - you can select multiple segments by CTRL+ clicking to the number column of the segments (SHIFT+click works as  well)

    Thanks for recalling that! I forgot, and I was also being a little fussy, sorry!

    - autosuggest - planned in future

    Great news!

    That's it for now. Thanks again!

    Martín

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