Automatically add project name to term entry

Question

Hello! 
 I use SDL Trados 2017 and Multiterm 2017. I was wondering if there is a way to automatically add the name of the project I am working on to a term entry. 
 
 For example, If I am working on project "Finance_ES-EN" and add a new term to my TB, I would like the name of the project to appear in that term's entry, as the "Source". If I now use this TB with another project called "Annual_Accounts_ES-EN" and add a new term, the "Source" field would read "Annual_Accounts_ES-EN" for that term. 
 Is there a way to do this? 
 
 Thanks in advance! 
 Melany

Paul · Answer

Hi Melanie J. Delgado Phillips , 
 
You can't do this automatically, but you could create fields for the name and then set a default that would be used for the project you are working on. It would mean having to add new field values to your list every time you created a new project but I guess it could be done. 
 
I think it would probably be easier, if this is the only customisation you have, to work with a new empty termbase as the default on a new project. So you have your big termbase there as well for lookup but only write new terms to the new one. Then when you are done you export the new termbase to Excel using the Glossary Converter, add in the column for the source project field and then convert this to MultiTerm XML using the Glossary Converter again. Finally import the XML to your main termbase complete with all the new fields. 
 
That sounds harder than it actually is, but as long as you ensure the definition of your main termbase and the new one match then it's a doddle.

Paul · Answer

davide fezzardi 
 davide fezzardi said: is there perhaps another way to do that without relying on Glossary Converter? 
 Of course... using MultiTerm Convert.

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Automatically add project name to term entry