Hi Sophie,

Good questions... these two article might be useful for you:

And this more recent one using an OpenExchange application:

Regards

Sophie

"Settings" is "Einstellungen" in German (you could also changed the UI language [Ansicht - Benutzersprache] to English to see this).

Once you are in "Einstellungen", you'll see "Felder und Einstellungen" and this is where you can define your user-specific fields.

You don't necessarily need to do this from the "Translation memories" view, you can also do it from your "Projekteinstellungen", see here:

Walter

Sophie

When you create a field of type picklist and enter some values for the picklist in the Settings of your TM, you will then find these values under "Aktualisieren" in the "Project Settings" of your project (assuming you assigned this TM to the project), as you can see here:

I have defined the two fields Kunde (as a picklist) and Auftrags-Nummer (as a text field) in the TM and in the Project Settings, I can now select the values, as depicted here:

From the moment on that you made this choice, all the segments that you confirm in your Editor will be written to the TM with the value you chose (e.g. Aldi) in the field "Kunde". 

And for the next project, you may change the value to another customer. 

If you forgot to set the value when you strat your translation, you can still do it afterwards by running the batch task "Update main TM" and selecting the correct value at that time. This will then once more write all confirmed segments of your current document/project to the TM with the selected values.

Hope this helps a bit to understand. Good luck for your tests.

Walter

ok - I hope you manage to sort it out.  You might find this article useful too as it explains how it is possible to create a different TM depending on how you set your project up... happens automatically and you may not have even noticed.  Might be an interesting concept to know about anyway :-)

Regards

Paul