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Import into a TM

  1. Open the Translation Memories view.
  2. Select a translation memory and click Import on the menu bar.
  3. Choose your general and advanced import options in the pop-up dialog box.
  4. Click Finish.

GroupShare imports translation units as a background task.

General Options

OptionDescription
Import File

Suitable file types are:

  • *.tmx
  • *.tmx .gz
  • *.sdlxliff
  • *.ttx
  • *.itd
Language Direction

Choose the language pair for the translation units.

Options
Import translation units as plain text

Select this option to remove formatting tags on import. Fields are not affected.

Exclude language variants

Select this option to exclude translation units that apply to language variants.

Export invalid translation units

Select this option to write to a TMX file the translation units that are marked not valid. The meaning of not valid depends on other options that you set, for example:

  • The translation unit is written in an excluded language variant.
  • The translation unit contains unknown fields.
Recompute Fuzzy Index Statistics

Select this option to remove the 1000 most frequent words from the fuzzy indexes.

Words that occur very frequently in translation units (TUs) are not useful for fuzzy indexes. Typically these are words like a, the, to.

Recomputing can make a difference in performance for large TMs. If the TM has less than 50,000 TUs, it will not make a noticeable difference.

If target segments differ
Add new translation units

This imports the new translation units as an addition to the existing ones.

Overwrite existing translation units

This imports the new translation units and overwrites the existing translation units in the translation memory.

Leave existing translation units unchanged

This keeps the existing translation units and does not import the new ones.

Keep most recent translation units

This keeps the most recently changed translation units. SDL Trados Studio imports a translation unit whose source segment is identical to that of an existing translation unit only if the imported unit is newer than the existing one. If the change date of the translation unit for import is older than the change date of the existing one, Studio does not replace the existing translation unit.

Advanced Options

OptionDescription
Unknown fields

These options determine how GroupShare treats translation unit with unknown fields.

  • Add to translation memory. The field is made available to all translation units in the TM. This option is not available when you use a field template.
  • Ignore. The translation unit is imported, but the field is ignored.
  • Skip translation unit. The translation unit is not imported.
  • Fail translation unit import. The translation unit is not imported and is counted as an error.
Only import segments with the following confirmation levelsFilter by segment translation status (confirmation level) which translation units to import into the TM.