Setting Up the TQA Configuration

As a project manager, you set up a standard Translation Quality Assessment (TQA) configuration to guide reviewers when evaluating your translation projects. As reviewers evaluate a translation using the configuration metrics, SDL Trados Studio computes this feedback to automatically determine if the translation meets the quality threshold defined in the configuration.

Using predefined TQA configurations

For a fast start with using TQA, we recommend that you create and use TQA profiles based on the industry standard TQA configuration templates that ship with Studio.

1. Follow the steps described in the How to import a project template help page to import one or more TQA project templates from the Studio Project Templates folder.
2. Go to File > Setup > Project Templates.
3. Select one of the industry standard TQA configuration templates you would like to use and click Edit.
4. In the Project Template Settings page, go to Translation Quality Assessment > Profiles and click Export settings.
5. Save the *.sdltqasettings file.

You can use the saved TQA settings file in your future projects to quickly deploy the quality assessment framework.

1. a. For the active project only, click Home tab > Project Settings.
   b. For all future projects, click File > Options.
2. Expand the Translation Quality Assessment tree and click Profiles.
3. Click Import settings and confirm the overwrite settings dialog box.
4. Browse for the saved TQA settings file and click Open.

Creating a new TQA configuration

To create TQA configurations from scratch, use the following steps:

1. a. For the active project only, click Home tab > Project Settings.
   b. For all future projects, click File > Options.
2. Expand the Translation Quality Assessment tree.
3. Configure the TQA metrics available on the Categories, Severities, Scoring and Document Type pages. See the Configuring TQA Metrics page for more information.
4. Click OK to close the Project Settings dialog box and apply your TQA configuration.

Using the TQA configuration

Reviewers can apply the metrics in your TQA configuration when reviewing in Assess Quality mode. To activate Assess Quality mode, open the project file and, on the Review tab, use the split button to choose  Assess Quality. This displays and activates the Add and Edit and Delete buttons which reviewers can use for giving feedback on translations.

Related Topics

Setting Up the Metrics of a TQA Configuration

Reviewing documents in TQA mode

Changing TQA Configuration

TQAs window