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Thread poster: Serena Marangoni
Serena Marangoni
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Aug 3, 2023

I have a translation that is being done with an old TM. Some translations in the TM are imprecise or outdated. Now I'm at the end of a big job and I've found out that, for instance, the name of a device was translated incorrectly. If I change the translation on segment 1000, what happens to the 100% and context matches that come before? What is the best way to ensure they're either:
- Automatically updated to the new translation
- Highlighted / Set to unconfirmed
- Have some ki... See more
I have a translation that is being done with an old TM. Some translations in the TM are imprecise or outdated. Now I'm at the end of a big job and I've found out that, for instance, the name of a device was translated incorrectly. If I change the translation on segment 1000, what happens to the 100% and context matches that come before? What is the best way to ensure they're either:
- Automatically updated to the new translation
- Highlighted / Set to unconfirmed
- Have some kind of penalty show up.

Is there also a way to have trados show me any segments that are a 80% or higher match that have been translated differently?

Thank you,

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Roy Oestensen
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Use filter Aug 3, 2023

Serena Marangoni wrote:
I have a translation that is being done with an old TM. Some translations in the TM are imprecise or outdated. Now I'm at the end of a big job and I've found out that, for instance, the name of a device was translated incorrectly. If I change the translation on segment 1000, what happens to the 100% and context matches that come before? What is the best way to ensure they're either:
- Automatically updated to the new translation
- Highlighted / Set to unconfirmed
- Have some kind of penalty show up.
Is there also a way to have trados show me any segments that are a 80% or higher match that have been translated differently?


My understanding is that Studio does not change the 100% and context matches even if you use a different translation later on. So I would use a filter, where I filtered on the source term in question. Or you could use Search and Replace, though in that case you are not totally certain to catch all instances of wrong translation if the term has been translated in different ways. Filtering would be more certain. You then would catch both 100% matches and fuzzy matches.

One thing, though: If you change a term in 100% matches because it is wrong, usually the client would want you to tell them.

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Jaime Oriard
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Set auto-propagation options and a verifier Aug 3, 2023

For your first question:

In: File > Options > Editor > Auto-propagation

Select: Auto-propagate exact matches to confirmed segments
Auto-propagate from: First segment in document

This will update all segments in the file, even confirmed ones, as long as they are all 100% matches. This will not update perfect matches, though.

There is an option to prompt you to confirm each change, if you wa... See more
For your first question:

In: File > Options > Editor > Auto-propagation

Select: Auto-propagate exact matches to confirmed segments
Auto-propagate from: First segment in document

This will update all segments in the file, even confirmed ones, as long as they are all 100% matches. This will not update perfect matches, though.

There is an option to prompt you to confirm each change, if you want that. You can read more here:
https://docs.rws.com/980998/344868/trados-studio-2022/file---options---editor---auto-propagation


For your second question:

Got to: Project Settings > Verification > QA Checker 3.0 > Inconsistencies

Select: Check for inconsistent translations

This will only compare and warn about 100% matches.

https://docs.rws.com/980998/571369/trados-studio-2022/specifying-inconsistencies-for-qa-checker


To check for terminology, you can use the "Terminology Verifier", under ... > Verification as above.

https://docs.rws.com/980998/345996/trados-studio-2022/terminology-verifier---verification-settings ▲ Collapse


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Jeff Whittaker
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In this case... Aug 5, 2023

the best thing to do would be to SEARCH the SOURCE text for the term (after moving the cursor to segment 1), manually change the TARGET text and then CONFIRM the segment. Any 100% matches should auto-propagate. Doing it this way may take a little longer, but then you won't have to go back and re-read all the segments to check for errors/omissions with the new term.

[Edited at 2023-08-05 20:45 GMT]

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