Add comment to or mark segments in TMs

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Hello, 
 Is there any way to add comments to or mark segments in TMs? It would be useful in cases when TMs are shared among translators. 
 
 Sandor

Manfred Altmann · Answer

Hi Sandor Juhasz , 
 I agree with , this this needs to be done via fields. 
 We define several fields for each TM, one of them being a free-text comment field. In case comments are needed (e.g. that a reviewer requested a certain translation), this information can be added to the segment on the fly while working in the Studio editor. 
 This feature is also helpful when importing translations into a TM, e.g. when you import the contents of an SDLXLIFF file into the TM. It is possible to add field values while importing. We use this quite often and find it helpful. 
 In addition, fields come in handy for adding customer, project, or other information to each segment. If you create fields of the picklist type for your TM, and select the desired contents in a project before starting to translate, the information will be entered consistently and can also be used for filtering later. 
 Hope this helps! 
 Best 
 Annette (from Manfred's account)

Paul Filkin · Answer

Sandor Juhasz 
 In the TM Editor no. The only way, and it's probably not practical, would be to use specific attributes in a field value. I have heard this requirement once before in all the time I've been at SDL, so if you want to have any chance of doing this there are two routes: 
 
 raise the idea at http://ideas.sdl.com and see if you get support from others 
 create a plugin or a standalone application to do this in some way. I reckon it might still have to use the field/attribute value for this because there isn't another vehicle in the TM itself for ensuring the comments travel with the TM. But perhaps a plugin could make this a simpler mechanism for adding the comments. 
 
 Or maybe someone has a better idea?

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Add comment to or mark segments in TMs

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