Upgrade Translation Memories Wizard > Output Translation Memories Settings

This lists the translation memories that will be created from the upgrade process. Under each new translation memory in this box, the translation memories and TMX files from which it will be created are listed. Select a translation memory and specify its settings on the right-hand side of the page.

This is where you can choose if you want to create a file or server-based translation memory.

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This is where you specify general settings, recognition settings and import settings.

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This is where the source language and target language in the translation memory are listed.

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This is where you specify what translation unit data is removed or retained in your translation memory in order to optimize the leverage from your new upgraded translation memory.

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This is where you ensure that the fields that you want to be available for each translation unit are listed.

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When this option is selected, the new upgraded translation memory is created locally at the Location specified. To change the default location, click Browse.

Translation memory description. This description is displayed in the Translation Memory Settings dialog box.

To add a copyright statement to the translation memory, add the copyright text here. For example, if you are creating a translation memory that will be used by someone outside your organization you may want to add some copyright text.

The copyright can be viewed in the Translation Memory Settings dialog box.

Select this to enable character-based concordance searching.

If the this option is selected, then as well as indexing words in a translation memory, SDL Trados Studio indexes groupings of characters within a word. This can result in more partial (fuzzy) matches and bigger indexes. For example, If you enable this option and you search the translation memory for the word Resource, your search results may include Resource, Resources and Sources. The search results include all three words because they each contain groupings of characters that are the same.

If you select this option, dates in source segments are automatically converted to the correct format to be placed in target segments. If the source segment in a translation memory matches a segment in the document being translated, apart from the actual value of the date that occurs in the segment, the translation will be retrieved from the translation memory and the date from the source segment will be placed in the target segment translation. Such matches are given a 100% match status.

If you have defined some auto-localization settings for dates, these will be applied to dates in target segments. You define auto-localization settings for a language pair in the Options dialog box under Language Pairs.

Select this to recognize a time of day occurring in a source segment and convert the time to the correct format in target segments.

Times can also be automatically converted to the correct target language format.

Select this to recognize a number occurring in a source segment and convert it to the correct format in target segments.

For example, suppose the following segment occurs in your English-German translation: Today, the DAX was down 11.98 points (= 0.55%) to 4,312.79. The numbers would appear in the German translation as: 11,98, 0,55%, and 4.312,79.

If you choose to recognize acronyms, they become available interactively in the placeables drop-down list in the Editor view. Matching segments containing acronyms do not generate a 100% match  they always have a penalty applied. Acronyms are treated literally (like words) but are still placeable text; this enables you to select them from the placeables drop-down list and insert the acronym quickly into the target segment.

Acronyms are identified by an internal regular expression which identifies them using the following criteria:

• An uppercase letter,

• followed by between zero and four letters or &, and

• followed by single uppercase letter.

Items containing a full stop are not recognized as an acronym.

Select this to recognize variables. Variables are items which should not be translated. You create a list of variables in the Language Resources list. This list appears in the New Translation Memory wizard the New Server-based Translation Memory wizard, and also in language resource templates.

Variables are placeables, and are copied verbatim into the target segment.

If you choose to recognize numbers (that includes numbers which are part of a measurement) SDL Trados will place the number in the target segment and format it correctly for the target language.

Imports a version of the translation memory that has had some formatting-related data removed. You might want to do this, for example, if you are a translator and you receive files in their original (native) format with a legacy translation memory. In this case, removing the formatting-related data associated with the translation unit will increase the leverage.

Imports a version of the translation memory that retains the legacy translation unit data. You might want to do this, for example, if you are a translator and you receive a pre-segmented legacy bilingual file with a legacy translation memory.  In this case, retaining the data associated with the translation unit will increase leverage.

The name of the field.

The type of field:

• Text - When this is selected, you can enter text in the field.

• Number - When this is selected, you can enter numbers in the field.

• Date/time - When this is selected, you can enter a date or time in the field.

• List - When this is selected, you can select from multiple values to assign to the field.

If you selected List as the type of field, enter the values in this field.

Click in the field and a popup is displayed. Enter a value on the first line. Click on the next line to enter another value. When you have entered all of your values, click OK.