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Studio save TUs along with their ConfirmationLevel (translated, ApprovedTranslation etc.). Why is this information not displayed during translation? And it would be nice if you could use this info for filtering (penalties, export/import) etc.

Paul · Answer

Hi Bruno, 
 
Studio does not save TUs along with their confirmation level. What made you think this? The confirmation levels are held in the bilingual file (sdlxliff). If Studio did hold this then you would potentially have 4 or 5 duplicate TUs separated only by their status... so you could filter on it! 
 
If you want to do this you could create an attribute to the TM based on the status and update the TUs each time with the appropriate status. But I really don't see the value in this at all. Can you elaborate? 
 
Regards 
 
Paul

Paul · Answer

Hi Bruno,

I see what you mean now... or rather I had never noticed this before at all!

<prop type="x-ConfirmationLevel">Draft</prop>

<prop type="x-ConfirmationLevel">Translated</prop>

<prop type="x-ConfirmationLevel">RejectedTranslation</prop>

<prop type="x-ConfirmationLevel">RejectedSignOff</prop>

<prop type="x-ConfirmationLevel">ApprovedSignOff</prop>

I did a little testing and as far as I can see it can hold these statuses above. So now I have a couple of questions:

Why do we hold this at all as it's only visible in a Studio TMX export (not 2007 TMX)? One for Daniel Brockmann I think.
Why would you even add TUs with these statuses to your TM... apart from the "ApprovedSignOff" and "Translated"?
Wouldn't this all become very complicated if you wanted to set penalties with these after adding TUs that probably shouldn't be in your TM in the first place? Surely it makes more sense to use these statuses in the bilingual file. I cannot think of any good reasons for storing rejected, or draft TUs in the TM.

I guess you have a good reason Bruno so I'm looking forward to being educated!!

Regards

Paul

Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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