Strange behaviour of Step One in the project creation wizard

I have some questions with regard to Step One.

1. No matter how I start a new project, I cannot produce a Step One window with the Step One legend and the explanation below. What I get is this:

Trados Studio screenshot showing an error message 'The project must include at least one translatable file.' in the 'Create a New Project' window with 'One Step' tab selected.

Does this mean that I only get the One Step legend the very first time I use this function and then never again? If so, it's very confusing.

2. How does the Autofill function work? It is not explained in the Help, and I get the same result here the next time I start a new project whether I have selected this box or not.

3. As you can see, I get an error message here saying that the file I have specified for translation is not translatable. Apart from this being wrong, what is really strange is that it was handled as translatable at first, but when I backed from step 2 or 3 to step 1 again, the detection of its usage was suddenly changed to not translatable. (I get the same result no matter how many translatable files I have added.)

I should add that this does not always happen, but it has done so more than once, in a haphazard way. (Of course it should never happen.)

4. For some reason, every time I start a new project, the step/station 3, Translation Resources, is aways ticked off in green. This seems to be a remnant from a previously created project. How come?

5. I have created (as an example) the Location Path D:\Jobb\Project 3. Under that folder I have also created sub-folders Prov and Nytt prov. However, in the file structure there is an additional folder level inserted between Project 3 and these sub-folders, namely "en-US" (obviously related to the source language selected). This is confusing. Why does it happen?

5. The Help says that I can add files as follows: "Drag files into the Files in Selected Folder list on the bottom right-hand side of the One Step wizard page." One: This is not possible for files that are to be translated; two: there is no "Selected Folder list on the bottom right-hand side of the One Step wizard page". (I have also commented on this on the Help page in question.)



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[edited by: Trados AI at 7:26 PM (GMT 0) on 28 Feb 2024]
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    Unknown said:

    1. No matter how I start a new project, I cannot produce a Step One window with the Step One legend and the explanation below. What I get is this:

    Trados Studio error message stating 'The project must include at least one translatable file.' with an 'OK' button.

    Does this mean that I only get the One Step legend the very first time I use this function and then never again? If so, it's very confusing.

    Please give me the exact steps you go through to get this Mats.  I see this occasionally but I can't reproduce it at will and I didn't make a note of how I caused it at the time as I was usually doing something else, so I just started again.

    On your question... no, it does not mean you only get to use this once.  It means something is not working right for you.

    Unknown said:
    2. How does the Autofill function work? It is not explained in the Help, and I get the same result here the next time I start a new project whether I have selected this box or not.

    There was so much debate over this during the Beta I'm surprised you didn't see it!  It's quite simple though... if you have it checked then no matter where you browse to for the project location the project name will always be replicated to the end of the path as you type it.  So the project name is autofilled!

    Unknown said:
    3. As you can see, I get an error message here saying that the file I have specified for translation is not translatable. Apart from this being wrong, what is really strange is that it was handled as translatable at first, but when I backed from step 2 or 3 to step 1 again, the detection of its usage was suddenly changed to not translatable. (I get the same result no matter how many translatable files I have added.)

    I should add that this does not always happen, but it has done so more than once, in a haphazard way. (Of course it should never happen.)

    So this is a repeat of question 1. or just a related question about the error... which should not happen and we need to fix it?

    Unknown said:
    4. For some reason, every time I start a new project, the step/station 3, Translation Resources, is aways ticked off in green. This seems to be a remnant from a previously created project. How come?

    That's a bug in my opinion.  I actually went through this with the development manager this week.  It seems to be related to your project template, so if you have something in there it will trigger that stage in the workflow to be ticked.  But there are some odd behaviours around this so it will be looked at.

    Unknown said:
    5. I have created (as an example) the Location Path D:\Jobb\Project 3. Under that folder I have also created sub-folders Prov and Nytt prov. However, in the file structure there is an additional folder level inserted between Project 3 and these sub-folders, namely "en-US" (obviously related to the source language selected). This is confusing. Why does it happen?

    I have no idea.  Detailed steps to follow please so I can reproduce what you have created.

    Unknown said:
    5. The Help says that I can add files as follows: "Drag files into the Files in Selected Folder list on the bottom right-hand side of the One Step wizard page." One: This is not possible for files that are to be translated; two: there is no "Selected Folder list on the bottom right-hand side of the One Step wizard page". (I have also commented on this on the Help page in question.)

    I don't know where you are looking but I have this ability.  The blank wizard looks like this:

    Trados Studio 'Create a New Project' window with an arrow pointing to an empty 'Files in Selected Folder' list.

    I drag some files for translation in there and it looks like this:

    Trados Studio 'Create a New Project' window with files for translation dropped into the 'Files in Selected Folder' list, indicated by an arrow and text.

    Have I misunderstood your question?

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  • I just spent two days with this same issue.

    I started with dropping an idml file into the Welcome screen and selected New Project.  I do have autofill checked and put in name of project.  I browsed for the project folder where we keep all graphics projects and selected just that folder. I than selected the 8 languages that this project called for.  I had to delete 4 from the default arrangement. I clicked on Next and this error message happened.  Trados created the sub-folder in the Project folder and put in the en-us folder.  I deleted the folder and tried again.  Trados created a new folder and kept telling me the same above mentioned error.

    I finally solved this by deleting the folder Trados created and since Trados would not let me cancel the project to start over used Task Manager to close it.  I than started over but this time instead of drag and drop file I Opened a New Project and started from scratch.  I browsed for the project folder.  I created the file name and selected the necessary languages and the last step was to add the idml file.

    It was a lot more work for what is supposed to be a one-step process.

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  • I just spent two days with this same issue.

    I started with dropping an idml file into the Welcome screen and selected New Project.  I do have autofill checked and put in name of project.  I browsed for the project folder where we keep all graphics projects and selected just that folder. I than selected the 8 languages that this project called for.  I had to delete 4 from the default arrangement. I clicked on Next and this error message happened.  Trados created the sub-folder in the Project folder and put in the en-us folder.  I deleted the folder and tried again.  Trados created a new folder and kept telling me the same above mentioned error.

    I finally solved this by deleting the folder Trados created and since Trados would not let me cancel the project to start over used Task Manager to close it.  I than started over but this time instead of drag and drop file I Opened a New Project and started from scratch.  I browsed for the project folder.  I created the file name and selected the necessary languages and the last step was to add the idml file.

    It was a lot more work for what is supposed to be a one-step process.

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