WorldServer provides translation memory and terminology database filters, which handle translation memory entries and term attributes. Attribute filters allow you to filter the results of a search or to filter exported data based on their attributes.

Attribute filters are available to search with in the Tools > Translation Memories > Translation Memory: <TM> and Tools > Term Databases > Term Database: <TD> pages with advanced search enabled, via the Advanced link. They are also available for exporting with in the Export TMX Entries from TM Database <TM> and Export Entries from Term Database <TD> dialogs.

To take advantage of attribute filters, click the Advanced link to reveal the TM filter or TD filter selector.

The filter selector allows you to choose an existing filter and use it when searching or exporting a translation memory or terminology database. It also provides filter management capabilities, allowing you to modify or delete the current filter and, if you are doing a TM or TD search, to create filters.

Note: If you are doing an export, you create filters in the Attribute Filter Editor.

The list of available filters contains the attribute filters you created plus any public filters available. Public filters are those that an authorized WorldServer user has created and designated as public, causing it to be available to all WorldServer users.

To add a filter, define its criteria (where to search, what operator to use, and what to search for) and click the Save icon (). The Attribute Filter Editor displays. Name the filter, give it a description, if you want, make it public, and click Save. You can base a filter on an existing filter, modify it, and click the Save icon, then rename it with Save As New in the Attribute Filter Editor.

Note: If you are creating or modifying a filter in the export process, you will define the filter itself in the Attribute Filter Editor.