Is it possible to export various entries at once from MT?

Question

Hello everyone: 
 While having 2 termbases in a project and needing to continuously switch the default TB in order to enter terms in the correct one (error-prone process), it seems like at one point I failed to make the switch and ended up with 'quite a few' entries in the wrong TB. Is there a way to select ALL the entries in question and export them all at once? I only know of the File > Export option that allows to export entries one by one. 
 In case it matters, the 2 termbases reside on a server; each TB has around 5,000 entries. I have both MT 2015 and MT 2017. 
 Thank you in advance for any suggestions you might have. 
 
 LucyMM

Lucy Matticoli-Mason · Answer

As a follow up to this question I posted yesterday, I wanted to share how I solved this. As you will see I went through a lot of steps, so if there is any other way to do this, I would appreciate the info. 
 
Scenario: My project had TB1 containing all the project terminology and TB2 containing exclusively field names WrittenAsCompoundWords. To enter terms into the corresponding TB during translation, I had to constantly switch btwn TBs by going to Project Settings > Language Pairs > All Language Pairs > Termbases and then selecting and ‘moving up’ the proper TB to make it the default. The project is huge, so I decided to enter terminology on the go, instead of concentrating on the task all at once at the end of the translation. But, I forgot to do this switch at some point and several field names ended up in the wrong TB (TB1). To add them to the right TB (TB2) I did the following: 
In TB1: 
1)	I created a filter, using the date range of the project, to identify ALL entries created during that time frame. 
2)	Created and export definition (Termbase Management > Export) and applied this filter to it. This process generated an XML with the entries created during this particular project. 
3)	I then created a ‘local TB’ and imported this XML into it. Then put this localTB through Glossary Converter to generate an Excel. 
4)	In this Excel I manually ‘DELETED’ the regular terminology entries belonging to TB1 and only left the field names WrittenAsCompundWords that belong in TB2. 
5)	The cleaned up Excel (now containing only the terms I need in TB2) was processed again through Glossary Converter to generate another ‘localTB’, which I then exported in its entirety. The XML generated on this step 5 was then imported into TB2. 
 
So now, after this convoluted process, I finally have the field names WrittenAsCompoundWords in the correct termbase TB2. But, I still have them also in the incorrect termbase TB1. 
 
To delete the terms from the incorrect TB1 I did the following: 
1)	I applied in TB1 the filter mentioned in step 1 above and then manually scrolled down and deleted the terms one-by-one. Needless to say, this was very time consuming. 
 
I appreciate any comments any of you might have. 
 
Kindest regards, 
LucyMM

Paul · Answer

Hi Lucy Matticoli-Mason , 
 
For the time being I think you've done this the most appropriate way in MultiTerm. There is a Batch Edit feature in MultiTerm but at the moment it's really basic and only supports find & replace operations. This may offer more in the future that would be helpful with a task like this. 
 
Thanks for sharing your solution though, I'm sure this will be helpful for anyone else trying to achieve the same thing. 
 
One other solution that might be helpful if you have to do a lot of editing tasks like this is to use the Excelling MultiTerm application here: 
 
 appstore.sdl.com/.../ 
 
This offers infinite ways to manipulate terminology data in MultiTerm. 
 
Regards 
 
Paul

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Is it possible to export various entries at once from MT?