Search and find tags or filtering for tags in Studio editor view

Question

Hello, 
 how I can find tags or filtering for tags in Studio editor view? Because in some segments there are tags that needs special attention. For now I have to scroll slowly throw the hole file to find them, but maybe there is a better way. I'm using Studio 2011, 2014, 2015. I didn't find a option, a function or something like that. In the old Trados 2007 TagEditor there was the possibiliy to find text in tags. This is what I need in Studio too. 
 Is this possible and I just know nothing about it? 
 thx

Paul · Accepted Answer

Hi Mirko, 
 It's not possible out of the box, but you can do it with at least one of the apps on the AppStore. So here I seareched for the word "size" in tags in the source and as you can see this returns all the segments containing tags with the text "size" in them. 
 
 You can double click the segments in the results window and will be taken to the appropriate segment. The app you need for this is the "Integrated Search Views" app: 
 
 You can dock it into any location in Studio so I just added it to the TM results location as an additional tab so it's simple to get at when needed. It's also better to have it somewhere you can extend the size of the pane to get at all the options when using the Filter . 
 Hope that's what you needed?

Alison Field · Answer

Hi Paul Filkin hi Mirko Bratke 
 I've just discovered that I can search for tags with the new display filter in Studio 2017. 
 See images below... 
 Searching in an xml-based sdlxliff: 
 
 and you don't even need to include the whole tag: 
 
 Useful for searching for non-breaking space tags: 
 
 Also works with a bilingual .xlf-based sdlxliff: 
 
 I thought maybe it was a fluke, only working on html-type files but it works with Word-based sdlxliffs too and even just the opening < is enough to filter these tags: 
 
 I asked myself if I was the only person who didn't know this? Am I slow on the uptake? 
 I found this out by accident as I was searching for segments that began with a specific letter and was surprised that the filter didn't pick up the letter if there was a tag at the beginning of the segment so wondered if, miracle upon miracle, the new filter was 'seeing' tags. 
 And it is! 
 Don't do anything to change that, please! It is soooo useful! 
 Thanks! 
 Ali

Paul · Answer

Unknown said: The use of different regex functions in the Review ribbon and Advanced Display Filter was probably a programming mistake, and will likely be "corrected" sometime. 
 Actually you're wrong! I had forgotten about this until Ali reminded me, but I confirmed it with the developer this evening and he actually added this in after I asked him just before any more changes were locked down for the release. So what's missing here now is an enhancement to do what you've suggested and that is to be able to explicitly say search in tags or not. 
 The advanced display filter was actually built using the API for this feature and it has been opensourced... so anyone can add this (any developer anyway) and you can even check the code where you'll see it wasn't a mistake! 
 https://github.com/sdl/Sdl-Community/tree/master/AdvancedDisplayFilter

Paul · Answer

Hi Ali, 
 Unknown said: I can give you a more complex example if that proves the point better 
 No, your Hz example was perfect. Thank you. 
 Unknown said: So, does the new filter see tags by accident rather than by design? I'd be sad to see that feature go, we've been asking for it since Studio first came out. I think the majority would be with me on that one. 
 As I already said, this was a deliberate inclusion and there is code in there specifically to support searching in tags. It was a last minute inclusion (my meddling where I shouldn't have!) and it could use a little refinement to include a "search in tags" checkbox so that it only calls this code when asked for. As I said already, the code for this is opensource so any developer could add this as a plugin this afternoon if they wanted to;-) Whether and when we enhance the one in the product will be down to development. 
 Regards 
 Paul

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