Correcting Connections

If you are aligning documents that do not mirror each other or documents with few unique content (proper names, numbers, dates, measurements etc.), Studio may incorrectly determine how sentence pairs belong together. You can correct such misalignments in the Alignment view > Home tab when Aligning Files with Subsequent Review or when Opening Files in Alignment view.

Select to Disconnect - Connect

To disconnect a misalignment, select the connection line or click inside the connected segment, then click the Disconnect button on the ribbon. You can also right-click on the line one of the connected segments and select Disconnect from the context menu. This breaks the current connection line and disconnects the alignment pair.

To connect segments manually, click on the row number in the source column and on the row number in the target file then select Connect. This connects the selected segments, confirms the alignment pair and sets the quality value for the alignment to the maximum value of 100.

For *.sdlretrofit files, you can only connect segments that are in the same paragraph.

Connect by drag-and-dropping

Drag-and-drop segments to create new connections quickly, without using the Connect button and without disconnecting the segments first:

Select the segments you want to connect by clicking on the row numbers. This highlights the segments in yellow.
Grab the source or target row by pressing on the left mouse button and drag it on top of the corresponding segment.

NOTE	You cannot drop two source segments on top of two selected target segments. Drag-and-drop cannot create n:n connections.

Connect in Edit mode

Connect segments in Edit mode when you want to create complex connections easier.

Disconnect the segments that you want to connect in Edit mode.
Click to highlight the Alignment Edit Mode button. Studio adds active checkboxes next to all your disconnected segments.
Tick the checkboxes corresponding to the source and target segments that you want to connect.
Connect the ticked segments:
- click Connect 1:1 to connect two individual segments.
- click Connect n:n to create one connection and one translation unit from multiple segments.

Create 1:1 connections

Create 1:1 connections by linking one source segment to one target segment:

select the row number for the source and target segment, then click the Connect button. The Connect button is only available for disconnected segments.
select the row number for the source and target segment, then drag one of the segments on top of the other.
in Edit mode, tick the checkboxes next to the source and target segment, then click the Connect 1:1 button. You can only connect disconnected segments in Edit mode.

Create n:n connections

Group multiple segments together into one connection to generate one single translation unit.

press CTRL + select the row numbers for the source and target segments, then click the Connect button. The Connect button is only available for disconnected segments.
press CTRL + select the row numbers for the source and target segments, then drag one of the segments on top of the other. Drag-and-drop is not available for 2:2 connections.
in Edit mode, tick the checkboxes next to the source and target segment, then click the Connect n:n button. You can only connect disconnected segments in Edit mode.

Limit for N:N connections

You cannot group more than three segments into one connection. N:N connections are only available for:

1:2 connections
1:3 connections
2:1 connections
2:2 connections
3:1 connections