Sofia

The system fields in an SDLTM would be these for example:

A bilingual file (TMX/SDLXLIFF) can hold some or all of this information.  If you use this option when importing "Use information from bilingual file to update TU system fields" then in theory Studio will take the information held in these files and use it to update the TUs in the translation memory.  This would be instead of taking your details, as the current user.

Hi Paul,

Thank you for you reply. Actually, I'm going to import a TMX file from Olifant (after cleaning) to an empty TM in Trados. Do you think I should select "Use information from bilingual file to update TU system fields" in this case? I'm afraid it will add some unnecessary information from Olifant.

Sofia

Maybe take a copy of your files and test it?  Easy enough and you won't break anything :-)

I would note however that there is a bug here that needs to be fixed.  I said "in theory" because the system fields should be overwritten.  But I tested a bit and it's very inconsistent.  The bug number is CRQ-23478.

So, I'd recommend you have a play with a copy and test it out to see what happens.  It may be easier to use a very small TM with only a few TUs in it and then you can easily manipulate the data to see what's happening before you do something with a larger dataset.  Even with things that work perfectly I'd always do this first so I properly understood what was happening under the hood.

Sofia

Maybe take a copy of your files and test it?  Easy enough and you won't break anything :-)

I would note however that there is a bug here that needs to be fixed.  I said "in theory" because the system fields should be overwritten.  But I tested a bit and it's very inconsistent.  The bug number is CRQ-23478.

So, I'd recommend you have a play with a copy and test it out to see what happens.  It may be easier to use a very small TM with only a few TUs in it and then you can easily manipulate the data to see what's happening before you do something with a larger dataset.  Even with things that work perfectly I'd always do this first so I properly understood what was happening under the hood.