Hi All,

I am completely new here, so I hope I am at the right place with my question :)

I am currently struggling with below described issue and any advice would be appreciated.

We are using custom designed CMS which allows export and import of XLIFF files. Our standard workflow is to export XLIFF file, create Trados Studio Project, send it for translation, save target as XLIFF from received returned package and import to our system.

When exporting the XLIFFs, we also use attribute "translate" to lock segments which should not be touched by translators in Trados project. This works fine.

However, the problem is, that when we mark some additional segments as locked in Trados and then save the project as XLIFF, the "locked segment" settings done in Trados are not propagated in target XLIFF – attributes "translate" of segments locked directly in studio are not set to "no in resulting XLIFF.

I have tried to setup XLIFF file segment status mapping options but there is no option to map "locked" segment status from studio project to XLIFF attribute "translate" (as noted above, other way is fine, selecting first option in XLIFF file settings – "Display trans-unit segments with attribute translate='no' as locked content" – does the job when creating SDL project from exported XLIFF file).

Any advice how to make "locked segments" settings propagate from Trados project to target XLIFF file as translate="no" attributes would be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.