SDL Analyse - No project templates are defined

Question

Excited about this analyse app! However, not able to test it out yet as I’m getting the message “No project templates are defined”. I deleted old registry items for Studio4, etc. but it didn’t seem to help.

It has been pointed out to me that the problem might be arising because the application is unable to locate my Project Template folder and this could be because they are stored on an external drive. This is in fact the case.

Can Studio 2017 and therefore the Analyse app be instructed to generally look elsewhere for the project templates? This is possible for each individual project template.

As I would like to continue having the project templates on the external drive, I suppose a workaround would be have the 2 folders syncing. Or simpler yet (but not ideal), to now and again just copy all the project templates on the external drive to my local project templates folder.

Paul · Accepted Answer

ok - so this is why copying the templates locally has no effect. Studio is still looking up the ones externally and the app is looking at the location Studio uses. I'm not sure why the app doesn't see them when Studio does, Romulus Crisan (former member) can probably explain, but if you were to point Studio to the local locations instead of the external drive then it would probably work. 
 
Regards 
 
Paul

Paul · Answer

Hi Jim, 
 
SDL Analyse can see your project templates in whatever location they are. However, if they are in an external location then you need to make sure that the app is able to get to it. Presumably Studio is able to access these templates when you open your File -> Options and look in the setup for project templates? 
 
Regards 
 
Paul

Paul · Answer

If you go to File -> Options -> Setup -> Project Templates can you see all your Project Templates in there? And is the location referred to the local or the external drive?

Paul · Answer

David McDermit 
 That doesn't sound like the same issue. If you don't see the default template in Studio then the app won't either. If you know where it is why don't you add it to your Project Templates?

Paul · Answer

David McDermit 
 Have you tried it just in case? Studio has a set of defaults it can use in the program folders. It does sound odd that you don't have any visible in Studio... I'm not sure how that even happens... but seeing as you don't try adding the default so it is there. The plugin uses the API... it is not part of Studio. 
 Also, can you confirm that you installed Studio locally and you are not running from a remote desktop?

Paul · Answer

I guess this is a question? 
 David McDermit said: And just to verify the Template file does end in sdltpl 
 Yes, it does.

Paul · Answer

David McDermit 
 I can't see anything you are showing? 
 Perhaps you need to do a reset, and reinstall? If you're willing I think it would make sense because something isn't right from what I am able to understand in your comments. 
 You could use this app for the reset and this will also explain what you will lose by carrying out a reset before you do it: 
 appstore.sdl.com/.../ 
 But if you'd rather do this manually then rename this folder (just add _old to the end or something, it's not important what you rename it to) and restart Studio: 
 c:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\SDL\SDL Trados Studio\15.0.0.0 
 So the path would become this: 
 c:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\SDL\SDL Trados Studio\15.0.0.0_old 
 If you can't find this folder then you need to unhide your hidden files/folders: 
 www.howtogeek.com/.../

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SDL Analyse - No project templates are defined