Paul, is there a quick way to refresh the termbase viewer to see all terms that have been added with this plugin? Thanks.

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Is that in the termbase viewer? I don't see any such option...

One problem I can see with this plugin is that multiple translations of terms go in as separate entries, rather than alternate target terms for the same source term, thus causing false positive quality control errors. Given that quality control is the primary reason that I use the termbase function in Studio, this looks like a blocking factor for me, unfortunately.

Neil Allen said:

is there a quick way to refresh the termbase viewer to see all terms that have been added with this plugin?

Yes.  A few ways:

• right-click in the term recognition wndow and View Term Details
• close the project and reopen it (might have to select a different project between to force a refresh)

Neil Allen said:

ne problem I can see with this plugin is that multiple translations of terms go in as separate entries, rather than alternate target terms for the same source term, thus causing false positive quality control errors.

This is a valid concern we will look at.  For tie time being you could create a new default termbase just to quickly add terms from your project and then import this into your main termbase afterwards.  That process could deal with duplictes for you and might be a good way of sanitising what you have entered for QA before they get lost in a much larger termbase.

In the meantime we will look at how we can address this without sacrificing the speed, so something like this I guess: 

1. Add a term pair
2. Check if there is an existing source AND/OR target
3. If there is add the missing term as a synonym to the existing entry
4. If there isn’t add the new entry for the term pair

Paul Filkin

Can you define which TermBase this app adds terms to? That would be incredibly practical, because the way it functions is more like adding to a glossary, not to a termbase. This would allow to quickly add term pairs to a glossary, while reserving CTRL+F2 for proper terminology additions.

Daniel

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Can you define which TermBase this app adds terms to? That would be incredibly practical, because the way it functions is more like adding to a glossary, not to a termbase.

We have been looking at this.  It's been a long standing problem I would love to be able to solve that you can only add terms to the default termbase and this is currently a restriction of the way Studio/MultiTerm works.  I know it might sound bizarre, especially to people who are not developers, but we can't actually return a list of termbases in the project to be able to pick one and then say add to that.

But I like your thought process and will revist this just in case there is some way we could somehow "force" this to work outside of the normal process.  The idea of a no-questions-asked solution like this is certainly a glossary thing and perfect for building rapid candidate lists for a curated solution later on.

Neil Allen Michael Beijer

We have updated the plugin so it now checks for duplicates as well:

https://appstore.sdl.com/language/app/rapid-add-term/1050/

You can't add an existing term with this app so you'll need to add with the out of the box add term feature if you decide you want to add a duplicate anyway. But at least you can safely work through with this app and it won't add duplicates in addition to correctly adding synonyms.  Quite a neat little plugin.

Excellent. I have reinstalled it and just run a few tests and it seems to work perfectly.

I'll let you know if there are any further issues.

Many thanks!