Setting Alignment and TM Import Options

To make sure that you only import translation units (TUs) that respect a certain quality level, you set SDL Trados Studio to consider various tuning options before sending the alignment results to your specified translation memory (TM).

To display the Alignment and TM Import Options page:

on the Alignment view, select Home tab > Import into Translation Memory > Advanced Import and click Next on the Select Translation Memory page.
on the Welcome or Translation Memories view, select Home tab > Align Documents > Align Multiple Files and disable the Save alignment result file for later review. This sends the alignment results to a TM without reviewing the alignment result file in the Alignment view. Click Next after specifying a TM and the files to align.
on the Translation Memories view, click Home tab > Import and select an *.sdlalign file. Use this option to import the translation units from an alignment result file into the active translation memory.

Set the Alignment Options

Depending on the extraction settings available for the type of aligned file, Studio extracts a number of segments from the files you selected for alignment. On the Alignment and TM Import Options page, you can tell Studio to cherry-pick only the segment pairs that meet a certain quality value threshold. For more information about the quality value, see Color Codes and Tooltips for Connections.

Move the Alignment quality value slider to a value between 1 and 100 to import only alignment pairs with the specified quality value and higher.

Set the TM Import Options

Use the TM Import options to specify your settings for importing the alignment results into the TM:

Box	Description
Apply Field Values	If the translation memory you are importing into has custom fields, you can specify what values should be placed in these fields for the imported translation units. Click Edit to display the Field Values dialog box. For each field, specify or select a value and click OK.
Import translation units as plain text	This ignores all formatting in the import file and imports the translation unit content as plain text. This may be useful if you do not want to transfer any tags from the aligned documents in order to keep the new translation units consistent with the existing TM data.
Exclude language variants	This does not import translation units for variants of the selected source and target language. For example if you are importing into an English (United Kingdom) / German (Germany) translation memory and you select this option, any English (United States) / German (Germany) translation units in the import file will not be imported.