SDL Studio 2017 – Adobe InDesign IDML file filter – Index entries tags/markers content

Question

Good morning/afternoon to all, 
 I have a request for the SDL Studio &ldquo;gurus&rdquo;; well, in fact it is a quite technical query regarding the Adobe InDesign IDML file filter. 
 After having saved an INDD file to IDML format and loaded it in SDL Studio I obtained this result: 
 
 that, in fact is correct as usual, but the hidden content of the &ldquo;Index entries markers/tags&rdquo; have been interpreted by SDL Studio as inline tags:

Obviously, these tags are not editable and I have not found a way to &ldquo;free&rdquo; them for translation of editable content, even after having checked all possible/pertinent options 
 
 Have I to exclude the chance to edit the translatable content of these inline index entries tags, or is there a way to &ldquo;unlock&rdquo; them for translation? 
 Thank you for your advice. 
 Regards, 
 Claudio

Paul · Accepted Answer

Hi Claudio Nasso 
 I thought you may have got an answer from the many InDesign experts we see in the community but looks like you'll have to make do with me ;-) I created a simple file with some index entries as you have explained: 
 
 If I open this in Studio (default settings) I see something similar to you, but as it's such a small file I can also see the Index that has been extracted at the bottom and these are all editable. I can also filter on them using the advanced display filter like this: 
 
 This is quite helpful because now I can see only the index entries. 
 
 These are actually the text inside these as you can see... all inline tags as your example: 
 
 So if you find the Index Topics you should be able to edit them. I'll just translate my sample file like this: 
 
 And then save the target and open it in InDesign you can see I have changed the index entries as per the "translation" in Studio: 
 
 So the trick is don't think about editing the tags because Studio can extract the text for you and present these in a separate row with the DSI of Index Topics . 
 Hope this helps you? 
 Regards 
 Paul

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SDL Studio 2017 – Adobe InDesign IDML file filter – Index entries tags/markers content