Changing user name in comment

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Hi, 
 I was wondering if it is possible to change the user name for comments made in a translation from my real name to an anonymous one like "translator". The column "user" in the comment window when in editor mode still shows my real name, even after I changed it under "Setup->User Info" as well as in the project settings under Translation Memory Updates to "translator". I even renamed my computer to "translator" and de- and reinstalled Trados once more, but still no luck. 
 
 Hope somebody can help. 
 
 Regards, 
 Chris

Paul · Accepted Answer

Hi Chris, 
 
I'm afraid this isn't possible in Studio. The name seems to be taken from your windows login. We have raised an enhancement request though and this is on the backlog which just means it'll be reviewed for inclusion when appropriate. It's not one I've seen many requests for but I can see why you might want to. 
 
I guess if it was really important you could edit the sdlxliff and search and replace the comment ID. But be careful if you do this so you don't break the paths to any files that might also use that username.

Paul · Answer

Hi Jan, 
 
I responded to your post here: 
 
 community.sdl.com/.../7936 
 
Hope that helps, and apologies to Chris as I obviously missed his response. 
 
Regards 
 
Paul

Paul · Answer

Yannic Piché Claudia Dalberg 
 
I think the name that is being used is the USER name of your computer. So for example my computer is set up like this: 
 
c:\Users\pfilkin\Documents 
 
In here pfilkin is my user name and this is what gets used for comments. I did think that the SDLXLIFF Anonymizer would be able to change this, but it doesn't. Perhaps the quickest fix to the problem is to ask Tom Imhof to enhance this plugin to include user names in comments. If that's not possible we may take a look at this and create a new plugin with a few more options as this is something we must be able to address.

Dejan Papez · Answer

Hi, Chris, 
 
 You can always change the username in the source code (by opening the xliff file in Notepad++). 
 
 Otherwise, as suggested above. 
 
 Best, 
 
 Dejan

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