Is it possible to apply "Do Not Translate" style to an .idml file?i

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Dear members of community, 
 I have a following problem: I need to import an .idml file for translation so that certain segments are ignored and are not visible in editor. These segments are part numbers and consist either of just numbers ( like 4892760) or a combination of capitalized letters and numbers (like 827JUNM89). So these part numbers have a special character or paragraph format in InDesign. Is there a way to change the file type settings in a way, so that Trados jsut ignores this particular character/paragraph format? I know that this works for .mif files. You can tell Trados to ignore a certain format and not translate it. 
 Thank you in advance! I am lloking forward to your ideas and thoughts on this!

Paul · Answer

Hi Veronika Orazalinova , 
 
The easiest way to handle this is to filter them out in the display filter. Then copy source to target, change the status to translated and finally lock them. Now filter on unlocked and you only get what you really need. 
 
Regards 
 
Paul

Paul · Answer

Hi Veronika Orazalinova , 
 
Why did you give up with the regex? If you have segments containing only these as single codes, so like this for example: 
 
#1: 9475690-372169 
#2: MP59478HF98 
#3: 89POG89 
 
Then this would work: 
 
^[A-Z0-9-]+$ 
 
And I guess you could extend this easily enough to catch other examples by adding any additional characters you find between the [] if they are not picked up with this one. 
 
It would help to see some examples of your real segments if they don't look like this. You could make up a file that didn't contain sensitive information and then we could ensure you get the right help. Any solution we give you is going to be better if we can see what you are looking at, but based on what you have shared so far I still think the display filter is your best bet. 
 
Regards 
 
Paul

Paul · Answer

Hi Veronika Orazalinova , 
 
Excellent! An sdlxliff file works as this will be exactly what you're looking at. You can share it in here if you zip it first and then others might be interested to have a go too (regex has that effect on people!), or email it to me at pfilkin@sdl.com 
 
Regards 
 
Paul

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Is it possible to apply "Do Not Translate" style to an .idml file?i