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Setting alignment and TM import options

To make sure that you only import translation units (TUs) that respect a certain quality level, you set SDL Trados Studio to consider various tuning options before sending the alignment results to your specified translation memory (TM).

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To display the Alignment and TM Import Options page:

  • on the Alignment view, select Home tab > Import into Translation Memory > Advanced Import and click Next on the Select Translation Memory page.
  • on the Welcome or Translation Memories view, select Home tab > Align Documents > Align Multiple Files and disable the Save alignment result file for later review. This sends the alignment results to a TM without reviewing the alignment result file in the Alignment view. Click Next after specifying a TM and the files to align.
  • on the Translation Memories view, click Home tab > Import and select an *.sdlalign file. Use this option to import the translation units from an alignment result file into the active translation memory.

Set the alignment options

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Depending on the extraction settings available for the type of aligned file, Studio extracts a number of segments from the files you selected for alignment. On the Alignment and TM Import Options page, you can tell Studio to cherry-pick only the segment pairs that meet a certain quality value threshold. For more information about the quality value, see Color Codes and Tooltips for Connections.

Set the Alignment quality value to a value between 0 and 100 to import only alignment pairs with the specified quality value and higher.

Set the TM import options

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Use the TM Import options to specify your settings for importing the alignment results into the TM:

BoxDescription
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

This ignores all formatting in the import file and imports the translation unit content as plain text.

This may be useful if you do not want to transfer any tags from the aligned documents in order to keep the new translation units consistent with the existing TM data.

Exclude language variants

This does not import translation units for variants of the selected source and target language.

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.

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. 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.