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Importing regular expression into QA Checker

Regular expressions help you identify inconsistencies in your translated text faster. If you already have a set of regular expressions (*.sdlqasettings) you would like to use, you can import them. The regular expressions you import are added to the existing ones. If the regular expressions you import and the existing regular expressions have the same description, you need to decide whether you want to overwrite them or not.

Before you begin

Make sure the QA Checker provider is enabled. To enable QA Checker, go to File > Options > Verification and select the QA Checker 3.0.

Procedure

  1. Display the Regular Expressions page by choosing one of the following:
    • Go to File > Options. These default verification settings are used when you create a project or start a new translation using the Translate Single Document command.
    • Go to the Projects view, select the project you want to work on, and, on the Home tab, select Project Settings. These verification settings apply to the active project and the active file.
    • Go to the Projects view, select Create Project Template, and in the Project Template Settings specify the project template settings and save the template. The verification settings which occur in a project template can be used when you create a new project. You may want to create a project template if you have several customers that require different settings.
  2. Decide whether you want to specify regular expressions:
    • For all language pairs (generic settings) - From navigation, select Verification > Regular Expressions.
    • For a specific language pair - From navigation, select Language Pairs > [Source Language] - [Target Language] > Verification > Regular Expressions.
  3. On the Regular Expressions page, select the Search regular expressions checkbox.
  4. In the Action drop-down list, select Import items.
  5. In the pop-up message, choose an action:
    • To overwrite the existing regular expressions with the imported ones, if they have the same description, select Yes.
    • To keep the existing regular expressions, if they have the same description, select No.
    • To quit the import operation, select Cancel.
  6. Choose the *.sdlqasettings file which contains the regular expressions you want to use. To choose multiple *.sdlqasettings files, press Ctrl and select multiple files, which will merge files incrementally.
  7. Select Open.