Translation Memory Settings Dialog Box > Fields and Settings

If you want to apply a field template to the translation memory, click Browse to display the Select Field Template dialog box where you can select the template. When applied the template is linked to the server-based translation memory and when the field structure in the template is updated, the field structure in the translation memory is also updated.

If you want to edit the field structure in the translation memory, click Edit to break the link with the template and edit the fields listed on this page. When the template is updated, the translation memory will no longer be updated.

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.

When this is selected, a translation unit in the translation memory can have more than one value selected for this field.

This option is only available for Text and List fields.

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 presented text in all content apart from the value of the date that occurs in the segment, the TM still registers a 100% match. The TM returns the translation and uses the value of the date from the presented text (rather than from the TM) to complete the translation. This is also the case for matching segments that contain numbers, variables, alphanumeric strings, times, measurements and acronyms.

In addition, the value of the date from the presented text will replace the value of the date in the target segment of the TM if the same date is used in both the target and source segment of the TM.

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 recognized tokens drop-down list in the Editor view. Acronyms are treated literally (like words) but are still recognized text; this enables you to select them from the recognized tokens drop-down list and insert the acronym quickly into the target segment.

An internal regular expression in Studio identifies words as being acronyms when it detects:

• a word in uppercase containing minimum two letters, or

• a word in uppercase containing minimum one letter, followed by & and followed by at least another uppercase letter..

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

If acronym recognition is activated, URLs (hyperlinks) and IP addresses are also recognized as recognized tokens.

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

Variables are recognized tokens, and are copied verbatim into the target segment.