Hitlist Settings

Use the Hitlist Settings dialog box to specify how termbase search results are displayed in the Term Recognition window and Termbase Search window. You can specify how much information is displayed for each result, what formatting is applied to the result text and whether the results are displayed in an expanded or compacted form by default.

As you make changes to the settings the they are previewed in the Sequential mode preview and Parallel mode preview boxes.

To display the Hitlist Settings dialog box, right-click in the Hitlist tab and select Set Display Style.

 

NOTE

When you close and then restart SDL Trados Studio, SDL MultiTerm continues to use the Hitlist settings you had before you closed the application.

 

Box

Description

Index and Termbase

Specify how indexes and termbases are formatted

  • Show termbase

  • Show Index name

  • Font

Use these options to specify whether the termbase name and index are displayed for each search result.

  • Select Show termbase to display the name of the termbase where the term was found.
    This setting only applies to parallel mode multiple-termbase searches as the termbase is always displayed for other search types.

  • Select Show index name to display the name of the index (language) that was searched.

  • Click Font to display the Font dialog box where you can specify how you want the termbase and index names to be formatted when they are displayed in your termbase search results. For example you can change the font size and color.

Terms

Specify how terms are formatted

  • Show target terms

  • Source Font

  • Target Font

Use these options to specify whether target language versions of terms are included in the search results and how they should be displayed.

  • Select Show target terms to include target language versions of terms in the Hitlist.

  • Click either Source Font or Target Font to display the Font dialog box where you can specify how you want the terms displayed in your termbase search results. You can apply different formatting to the source language terms and the target language terms.

Fields

Specify which fields are displayed and their default appearance in the tree

  • Expand fields / Compact fields

  • Show term fields

  • Show target fields

  • Show plus minus buttons

  • Font

  • Show Field Selection

Use these options to specify what other termbase data is included in the results and how the data is displayed.

  • Select Expand fields to automatically display all information retrieved for each search result. Select Compact fields to minimize each set of result data into a single row in your search results. When viewing results you expand a result by clicking the plus sign that precedes it.

  • Select Show term fields to display the data that is held in the termbase entry for this search result. For example, your termbase entries may include a Description field and a Status field. If you select this option these fields will be included in the search results.

  • Select Show target fields to display any termbase fields that contain data for the target language version of the search result.

  • Select Show plus minus buttons to display a plus or minus button for each search result. Clicking the plus or minus button expands or compacts the data displayed for each search result. If you do not select this option you will not be able to expand/compact results in your search results.

  • Click Font to display the Font dialog box where you can specify how you want the search results to be formatted.

  • Click Select Fields to display the Field Selection dialog box where you can choose other termbase fields to be displayed for each search result. For example, you may want to display the term description or source.

Sequential mode preview

As you make changes to the settings in this dialog box, the impact of the change can be previewed here. This preview applies to Sequential mode multiple-termbase searches.

Parallel mode preview

As you make changes to the settings in this dialog box, the impact of the change can be previewed here. This preview applies to Parallel mode multiple-termbase searches.

 

NOTE

You can change the search mode that is selected on the Search Settings page.

 

 

Related Topics

Overview: Working with Termbases

Font