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"Question improvement suggestion": Please provide more information about the settings you have for your AutoSuggest feature and the steps you have taken to troubleshoot this issue. Also, please confirm if you have made any recent changes to your system or Trados Studio 2024.

In the meantime, based on the information you have provided, here is a suggested answer to your question:

Hello Stanley S,

It seems like you're having trouble with the AutoSuggest feature in Trados Studio 2024. The AutoSuggest feature should ideally suggest phrases from your Translation Memory (TM) and AutoSuggest Dictionary based on the source text. However, it seems like it's not working as expected in your case.

Here are a few steps you can take to troubleshoot this issue:

Step 1: Check your AutoSuggest settings. Go to "File" > "Options" > "AutoSuggest Options". Make sure that "Enable AutoSuggest" is checked and that your TM and AutoSuggest Dictionary are selected in the "Provide suggestions from" section.

Step 2: Update your TM and AutoSuggest Dictionary. If you have added new terms or phrases to your TM or AutoSuggest Dictionary, make sure to update them so that the new terms or phrases can be suggested.

Step 3: Check your TM and AutoSuggest Dictionary for the phrase "der britischen Strafprozessordnung". If it's not there, add it manually.

Step 4: If the issue persists, try resetting your AutoSuggest settings to default and then reconfigure them.

If these steps do not resolve your issue, it might be a bug in Trados Studio 2024. In that case, I would recommend reporting this issue to the Trados Studio support team for further assistance.

I hope this answer addressed your question. If not, please reject the answer, add the question improvement suggestion information, and click the RWS Community AI checkbox on the right to try again.

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Autosuggest and TMs, as said before, are enabled and updated in time.

Stanislav Sendek 

You have no influence on what is found both in AutoSuggest dictionaries and translation memories to be entered as an auto suggestion. This is randomly calculated by the software and from my knowledge there is no way to make this process delivering you specific suggestions, as you would like to have.

Instead of relying on AutoSuggest dictionaries, which are static and must be updated at least from time to time, consider creating a termbase, where you would enter your specific terminology. This is the best source for all autosuggestions.

TBH I stopped using AutoSuggest dictionaries very long time ago, as since Ts is able to utilise fragment matches for autosuggestions, I do not see any sense in creating static dictionaries for that. The use of fragment matches relies on the TM and uses what is there in a much more flexibler way as the ASD can offer.

Thank you Jerzy for you quick answer! I try to enter it into termbase which I have also been using. But, so far, I have understood the termbase an inventory for words or expressions only and not for grammatical cases to. It would mean that I should be expected to enter into my EN-DE termbase more the same expressions with minor grammatical changes such as:

1) Criminal Procedure Rules - Strafprozessordnung

2) of the Criminal Procedure Rules - der Strafprozessordnung

3) of the UK Criminal Procedure Rules - der britischen Strafprozessordnung

4) (to) the UK..... - dem britischen...

I wanted to circumvent this by a functionality that had been available some time in the past. But it seems I have no other option.
Thanks again!

Stanislav Sendek 

OK, I see your point. However, in German you have just few differences. "britische Strafprozessordnung", "britischen Strafprozessordnung" and "britischer Stpo" as far as I can see. So I would just enter all three variants in the TB. Adding prepositions there makes no sense, as if you want to start auto suggest function with the first two or three letters, all expressions with derdiedas will be considered. So my advice would be to fill the TB with all expressions that might be useful while typing.

In fact I have a working termbase with all expressions I might need, so I treat this like an extended typewriter. This is not a termbase a terminologist would like to see, but in terms of practicability it is perfect and works as expected. As most customers provide their own termbase, which is terminologist-conform, using both in my projects perfectly fulfils my need. And please bear in mind, that Polish need much more variants than German...

You still can use all these features (Autotext, Autocorrect, Termbase).

When you select a pair of terms in both source and target columns and then add them with a shortcut, you use the termbase feature.

When you select a term in target only and press Alt+F7, Enter, Enter, you use the autotext feature. It doesn't depend on source, you just add a target word or phrase.

When you type "Abs. 1" and it converts into a longer word or phrase like "Abracadabra blah-blah-blah", you use the autocorrect feature. You can open an autocorrect list in Options to add new entries.

I frequently use all of those features in my work with Trados 2021. I am pretty sure they are still available in Trados 2024 either. You just have to refresh how to use them.