Import Wizard > General Import Options
Use the General Import Options page of the Import wizard to specify your settings for importing data into the translation memory:
To display this page, click Next on the Import Files, TMX Import Options or Bilingual Document Import Options page of the Import wizard.
| Box | Description |
|---|---|
Apply Field Values | If the translation memory you are importing into has custom fields, you can specify what values should be placed in these fields for the imported translation units. Click Edit to display the Field Values dialog box. For each field, specify or select a value and click OK. |
Import translation units as plain text | When this option is selected, all formatting in the import file is ignored and the translation unit content is imported as plain text. This may be useful if you are importing translation units from an application that handles tags differently to SDL Trados Studio as the imported tag information would not display correctly in Studio. |
Exclude language variants | When this option is selected, translation units for variants of the selected source and target language will not be imported. For example if you are importing into an English (United Kingdom) / German (Germany) translation memory and you select this option, any English (United States) / German (Germany) translation units in the import file will not be imported. |
Export invalid translation units | When this option is selected, translation units that do not match the selections you have made on this page are not imported; they are saved to a Click Browse to specify a location and name for the file. |
If target segments differ
These options specify how Studio deals with the translation units in the imported file that already exist in your TM but contain different target segments.
| Add new translation units | This option imports the new translation units as additional entries. The TM fields of the new translation units are merged with those of the existing TUs. |
| Overwrite existing translation units | This imports the new translation units and overwrites the existing translation units. The TM fields of the existing TUs are also replaced with the TM fields of the new TUs. The only fields that Studio keeps from the existing TUs are those fields that do not have a correspondent in the new TUs. |
| Leave translation units unchanged | This keeps the existing translation units and their TM fields and does not import the new ones. For server-based TMs, this option is only available for translation memories created in SDL Studio GroupShare 2014 2014 SP2 and later. |
| Keep most recent translation units | This keeps the most recently changed translation unit and its fields. 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. For server-based TMs, this option is only available for translation memories created in GroupShare 2014 2014 SP2 and later. |
Click Finish to go to the Importing page of the Import wizard and to start the import.
Server-based TMs
The options Leave existing translation units unchanged and Keep most recent translation units are only compatible with GroupShare 2014 SP2 and later. This means that these options are disabled if you are importing TUs into a server-based TM created in GroupShare 2014 SP1 and earlier. For file-based TMs, these options are always available when importing TM data fromStudio 2014 SP2 and later, regardless of the version in which the TM was created.