Behavior Differences
- Segment Comments
- Segment Status
- Segment Locking
- Word Counts and TM Leverage
- Inline Tags
- Preview Capabilities
- Due Dates
Segment Comments
| SDL Trados Studio | SDL WorldServer | |
|---|---|---|
| Comment Scope | File, segment, and range comments
| Segment comments. WorldServer converts range comments to segment comments, and ignores file comments |
| Comment Severity | Comment Severity Level | [Not available] |
| Comment Grouping | Comments stored individually and tagged with user, date and time | All comments for segment saved in one text block. Each is preceded with a separator that contains user, date and time |
Segment Status
SDL Trados Studio and SDL WorldServer use different values to identify translation segment status. When you open a WorldServer project package or create a WorldServer return package, segment status values are converted as follows:
| SDL WorldServer | SDL Trados Studio |
|---|---|
| No Status (empty target) | Not Translated |
| No Status (non-empty target) | Draft |
| Pending Review | Translated |
| Reviewed | Translation Approved |
| Rejected | Translation Rejected |
| SDL Trados Studio | SDL WorldServer |
|---|---|
| Not Translated | No Status |
| Draft | No Status |
| Translated | Pending Review |
| Translation Approved | Reviewed |
| Translation Rejected | Rejected |
| Sign-off Rejected | Rejected |
| Signed Off | Reviewed |
Segment Locking
- Dynamic locks allow you to unlock and modify segments
- Static locks do not allow you to modify segments
When you edit a file with locked segments in the Studio side-by-side editor, you will see a lock icon in these segments. While Studio allows you to unlock and modify a locked segment, WorldServer will not accept any changes to the contents of segments that it locked with static locks. If you attempt to modify a static-locked segment, the Editor displays a warning message.
- Commenting allowed on locked segments
- The Editor displays a warning message to inform you that WorldServer will accept changes to the comments, but not to the segment translation
- Commenting prevented on locked segments
- The Editor displays a warning message to inform you that WorldServer will not accept either your comment changes or any segment translation changes
A similar issue occurs in the Editor if you modify and then lock a segment that is not locked in WorldServer. When you confirm the segment, the Editor displays a warning message to warn you that WorldServer will not honor this segment lock.
Word Counts and TM Leverage
You may find differences in word counts and translation memory match scores (leverage) between SDL Trados Studio and SDL WorldServer, since they currently use slightly different approaches to segmentation and leverage. The differences should not be significant.
SDL Trados Studio will correctly display fuzzy match percentages after opening a translation kit from WorldServer.
Inline Tags
SDL WorldServer and SDL Trados Studio both show nontranslatable markup within segments as numbers enclosed within braces, such as {1}. WorldServer does not distinguish among different types of these inline tags; it refers to all of them as "placeholders."
In each segment, placeholders in the target must match placeholders in the source. You can move placeholders within a segment, but must not add or delete them. If placeholders are missing, or there are more placeholders in the target segment than in the source segment, you cannot create a WorldServer return package.
Preview Capabilities
- Text
- text/plain
- text/x-java-properties
- application/x-javascript
- HTML
- text/HTML
- application/x-jsp
- text/x-asp
- XML
- text/xml
- text/xsl
- txt/x-idiom-dcr+xml