Option to lock several segments

Question

Hello, I'd like to know if there is an option to lock several segments at onece by selecting the range of segment numbers or something similar; I already know how to do it by holding down the Ctrl key and click on the segment number column to select rows, but is manual and time-consuming. Thanks in advance.

Jesús Prieto · Answer

Option 1: select each row (by clicking the number column while hoding down the CTRL key) and when you are done selecting all the rows, lock them up. If you need to lock several consecutive rows, you can use the SHIFT key to select them. To some extent you can mix SHIFT and CTRL selected-segments before lock them up. Is this way what you find time consuming? Option 2: select a row (by clicking on the target column) and press CTRL+L to lock that segment, do the same thing for the next rows... (CTRL+L is the shortcut to lock/unlock).

Paul · Answer

Hi Ayelén, 
 
You might find this article useful too: 
 
 multifarious.filkin.com/.../ 
 
In there I explained how to use the keyboard only to select segments and work without a mouse. 
 
Regards 
 
Paul

Luke Hipsher · Answer

Hello, 
 If you want to do this for an entire project or based on segment status or match type, there's a helpful Open Exchange App called Integrated Segment Actions that will do this from the project-level. It is sort-of a Studio-mounted version of the SDLXLIFF Toolkit. 
 http://appstore.sdl.com/app/integrated-segment-actions/530/ 
 Just right-click on the project number and select 'Segment Actions'. Then, select the status or match origin (i.e. 'Unlocked', 'Translated', '100% matches', etc.) on the left and the Action to Perform: 'Locked' on the right:

Thanks 
 Luke Hipsher

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