Applying the Advanced Display Filter

Use the Advanced Display Filter to combine specific search criteria for segment filtering in the Editor view.

Procedure

  1. Go to the Editor view.
  2. Go to the View tab and select Advanced Display Filter 2.0.
    To always display the Advanced Display Filter 2.0 window, select the Auto-hide button.
  3. In the Advanced Display Filter window, select one of the available tabs and specify your search criteria:
    • In the Content tab, enter the text you want to search for in the segment's source, target or tags. Use regular expressions (regex) to find content that matches a certain pattern instead of an exact text. You can also right-click on a source segment and choose Source Filter or Target Filter. These options use the entire segment text for content searching in the source or target segments. Alternatively, select only a part of the segment text, right-click and choose Selection Filter. This fills in the Source and/or Target fields with your selected text. The Selection Filter is not available for target segments with tracked changes.
    • In the Filter Attributes tab, restrict results to segments with statuses like translation origin, review features, repetitions, locked content, tracked changes etc. For example, filtering on unique segment occurrences is useful when reviewing translations, as you only check the first instance of an error and correct all duplicates later. You could also use Exclude first occurrences to display all repetitions then lock them for translation.
    • In the Comments tab, use the filtering options to display only segments commented by a certain user and with a certain severity. You can also use regular expressions to look inside comments for content that matches a certain pattern instead of specific text. For example, to search for comments that contain dates between 2010 and 2019, you could enter the regex 201[0-9] in the Text field instead of running nine separate searches.
    • Use the options in the Document Structure tab to restrict the search results to specific types of segments. For example, type H or heading to show only Title segments.
    • In the Segment tab, you can filter by user, date, or by the number of the segment in the Editor view. You can also restrict search results to segments that have been split or merged within a paragraph. The Merged across paragraphs option finds segments merged across paragraphs breaks in addition to normally merged segments. To display only segments with a specific range of TM fuzzy matching, use the Fuzzy values between option. You could use this for translating the fuzzy matches first.
    • In the Colors tab, filter on a specific text color inside segments. Trados Studio lists all the colors available inside the source text. The filter displays all segments where at least one character uses the selected color. To select multiple colors, press CTRL and click on the colors you want to filter by.
    • Use the options in the Sampling tab to filter random segments for QA checking.
  4. Select Apply Filter.
    You can see the applied filters and search results in the status bar at the bottom of the Advanced Display Filter.

Reverse filter search

Reverse the current filter to display the opposite results for the current search. For example, reversing the search for the word printer will display all segments that do not contain this word. Filter reversing is particularly useful when working with regular expressions as negative patterns are more complex.

Highlight filtered segments

Use highlighting to emphasize the segments filtered by a search or to differentiate between segments filtered by different searches. After applying a search filter, click Highlight and choose one of the available colors from the list. All the segments filtered by the current search are marked with the selected highlighting color. You can use different highlighting for subsequent searches. When you clear the filter, all the segments available in the Editor are displayed, showing all the highlighting you have applied. This helps you differentiate between the results of different searches.

Comment filtered segments

After applying a filter, you can add information about the filtered segments in a comment. Right-click in the Editor view and select Add comments to all filtered segments. Select a Severity level, add a comment and click OK. The comment is displayed in the Comments view together with all the other file-level and segment-level comments.

Save filter

It might be useful to save a filter if you will be using it again. Click Save to save your search criteria in an .SDLADFSETTINGS file on your computer. You can reuse this later to search through the segments of a different document. Click Load to select the settings file and reapply the filter. Loading a filter autofills the fields for which search criteria has been defined.

Generate list of filtered segments

Export the filtered segments to open them separately in the Editor view. For example, after filtering out all translated segments you can generate an .SDLXLIFF file and send out for translation only the remaining segments. The Advanced Display filter does not support exporting segments from virtually merged files.