Alison Field

Hi Ali,

I would also wish for that feature, but I don't think it is possible.

Daniel

Daniel Hug 

Hi Daniel, indeed it would be useful. As far as I'm aware, the only source comments that are possible are those that are imported from the source language file on project creation.

I'd imagine it would be pretty hard to program the ability to add source comments at this late stage in the development of the wonderful product that is SDL Trados Studio... also, I don't think many people have expressed a desire for it.

It is of course possible to copy and paste the source segment to a separate document to use later, or to add a comment to the target segment and export the comment to Excel as both source and target are quoted, as we currently do but it could save time if we could add a comment suggesting a correction to the source text, on the fly as we go through a file.

Thanks for commenting!

All the best,

Ali 

Perhaps Alison Field this would be worth adding to the Ideas section.

 Daniel Hug 

Hi Steven,

Yes, but I thought I should check first to see if anyone knew of a way to do this...

Thanks,

Ali

Alison Field

You will have my vote...

Daniel

Daniel Hug

Thanks, Daniel!

Ali

Alison Field

Perhaps a couple of workarounds in the meantime ;-)

1. add a copy of the source file to your project with a different name, then when you need to share comments on the source copy source to target, add your comments and save the target... or
   
   
2. Make the comments in the target and use the export for bilingual review to share them with your customer.

I must admit I'm not a fan of adding this capability to Studio unless it's a trivial task.  But I guess adding the comments is one thing (which may not be trivial since Editor changes always seem to be tricky), but then making the Save Source pick up the comments and include them is another.  But the ideas site is a good idea.

Paul

Hi Paul, 

Adding a copy of the source file to the project with source copied to target... that's the best workaround yet ...

I suspect that exporting for bilingual review would not meet the need, as it's just the specific segments the client wanted to export and that can be achieved already via the Comment View Plugin export.

Thanks!

Ali

Hi again Paul

The person who I made this request for liked your idea no. 1...

A stroke of genius... I wish I'd thought of it 

One could also copy source to target within the actual file then filter for the segment/s in question and export that to an SDLXLIFF via the Advanced display filter...

OR... one could even keep the incorrect text in the Source segment and the corrected text in Target with a comment then export that, filtering for comments...

Ali