Defining an additional property

Enter a name for the property into the Prompt field. This name will be displayed in the properties window of the corresponding object.

The Type determines the contents of the property. This can be either a text, an integer or a Boolean value (yes/no). The latter is displayed with a checkbox in the properties window.

You must then choose which objects you want to use the property with. To avoid consuming unnecessary memory, try to select only those objects for which the property is truly needed.

If you define a property for Source String, the value is generally transferred to the corresponding translation string when the translation list is updated. If you don't want this to happen and the property is required only for the source string, select the No transfer to translation option.

An additional Info text helps the user to set the values of the property.

The Name of the property can be accessed in macros by means of the Property function. It is assigned automatically and does not normally need to be changed. You can only specify your own property name when defining a new property. Click on Change and enter a name for the property using either a number between 20000 and 29999 or a text name that begins with "U:". This naming restriction is important so that SDL Passolo can distinguish the user-defined properties from properties created by an add-in or a macro.