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Propagating segments with track changes

Carol Ribeiro

Hello all, hope you're well.

I was wondering whether there's a way to propagate track changes to other documents within a project.

For instance, I have reviewed a document and used track changes (+TM, of course), now I have a summary of changes where the same track changes should appear. Is there a way to run the TM making the track changes appear in the translated segment or does this have to be done manually?

Thanks in advance.

Carol
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    Hi Carol,

    I guess you could open all the files up together (if they are not too large), with track changes enabled, and then confirm the first segment you are changing. If you have the option in your autopropagation settings set to propagate to confirmed segments then this should apply the changes throughout your files. But be careful with this in case you have segments where you don't want the changes to apply... you could also use the option to always ask you before applying the changes.

    I did wonder whether a pretranslation could achieve the same thing but I don't think it will as the tracked changes option is only available via the Editor.

    Regards

    Paul

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    Hi Carol,

    I guess you could open all the files up together (if they are not too large), with track changes enabled, and then confirm the first segment you are changing. If you have the option in your autopropagation settings set to propagate to confirmed segments then this should apply the changes throughout your files. But be careful with this in case you have segments where you don't want the changes to apply... you could also use the option to always ask you before applying the changes.

    I did wonder whether a pretranslation could achieve the same thing but I don't think it will as the tracked changes option is only available via the Editor.

    Regards

    Paul

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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    Hi   and Carol, I've recently came up with a method to propagate changed sentences to similar files. It happened that I had to apply changed sentences to repetitive manuals and did the following: 1. took the "master" sdlxliffs and used the following regep using Texpad (posix syntax) -> search "(added" sdl:revid=".*?">)" replace with "$1[use a word as a flag here]" in order to amend them 2. import everything in a new empty TM 3. export segments including the flagged entries in a TMX file 4. remove flags in the TMX file 5. import the amended entries into a new empty TM 6. use the TM to proagate, force, overwrite amended sentences over the already translated sentences.