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Options Dialog Box > Editor > Auto-propagation

Use the Editor > Auto-propagation settings to specify:

  • Whether or not auto-propagation is enabled.
  • How auto-propagation is applied when used in your document.

Click Auto-propagation to find out more about auto-propagation editing.

To display the Editor > Auto-propagation settings, select File > Options and then select Editor > Auto-propagation from the navigation tree in the Options dialog box.

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General

Enable Auto-propagation

Select this to enable auto-propagation. When it is enabled, auto-propagation takes place automatically when you confirm a translation. At that point, SDL Trados Studio automatically checks the document for the presence of similar source segments and applies the translation to their target segments.

By default translations are auto-propagated to empty target segments and to segments that contain a translation which has not been confirmed.

Modify the selections below to specify when auto-propagation should occur and if you want to be asked to authorize auto-propagation.

Minimum match value

This is the degree of match that must exist between the source segment that has a confirmed translation and another source segment in the document for the segment to be considered a matching segment where auto-propagation can occur. The default is 100% ( exact match).

Auto-propagate exact matches to confirmed segments

Select this to overwrite confirmed translations with auto-propagated translations if the confirmed translations have an exact match to the original source segment.

Under Prompt User, specify if you want to be asked to authorize auto-propagation to confirmed segments.

Confirm segment after auto-propagating an exact match

Select this to automatically confirm auto-propagated segments. This changes the status of the segment to Translated or Translation Approved.

If you open a document for review, select this to also automatically reject auto-propagated segments. This changes the status of the auto-propagated segments to Translation Rejected when the original segment translation is rejected.

Starting Position

Select where in the document you want the auto-propagation to start.

Auto-propagate from:

  • Next segment in document - When this option is selected, auto-propagation starts at the segment after the segment that has just been confirmed. You may want to do this if you have already translated and confirmed segments in the first part of the document and therefore you only want to auto-propagate segments in the second part of the document.
  • First segment in document - When this option is selected, auto-propagation always starts at the beginning of document.

Prompt User

If you do not want auto-propagation to take place automatically, use these options to specify when you want to be asked to authorize the auto-propagation of a translation.

Always

When this option is selected, you will always be asked if you want the auto-propagated translation to be applied to a segment.

Conditionally when:

These options enable you to specify when you want to be asked to authorize the auto-propagation of a translation. Select one of the following options:

  • Matching segment has been translated differently: When this option is selected, Studio will automatically auto-propagate translations to matching segments except where the segment has already been translated by applying translation memory and the translation is different to the one being auto-propagated.
  • Matching segment has no translation: When this option is selected, Studio will automatically auto-propagate translations to matching segments except where the segment has no translation in the document.
  • Matching segment confirmed: When this option is selected, Studio will only ask you if you want to auto-propagate when the matching segment is translated and confirmed. This option is only available if you have also selected Auto-propagate to matching segments that are confirmed.
Never - always auto-propagate translation without prompting user

When this option is selected, Studio automatically auto-propagates the translation to all matching segments. This option is selected by default.