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Impossible to change status of segment

Laurence Pokorny

I cannot  change the status of some segments after translation to «translated». What can I do ?

I am working with Studio 2017. 
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  • 0 in reply to Laurence Pokorny
    You can very well play with the auto propagation, achieving perfect results. What you would need to change to have it working as you want, is to have the auto propagated segments simply confirmed. This way you would have ALL repetitions translated exactly the same way - most probably this is why your customer told you to use "Auto-propagate matches to confirmed segments", but then he simply forgotten to tell you to activate "Confirm segment after auto-propagating an exact match".
    However, using the option "Auto-propagate matches to confirmed segments" may be very dangerous in Slavic languages, as we may not translate all repetitions the same way. For example if the segment contains just the word "red" or "yellow", the translation will depend on what is in red or yellow color. A dress is red in a different way than a car - a dress is "czerwona" in Polish, while the car will be "czerwony". So to avoid such problems you either need to find a translation, which will avoid the reference to a gender in this very example (done that via translating "red" to "color: red" = "kolor: czerwony", which does fit every item, which might be referred to) or to use the "Prompt user" options to have the full control over autopropagation.

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