QA messages in the Verification panel

This topic lists the verification messages triggered when QA differences are identified after the automatic comparison of source segments and target segments.

No.QA verification messageDescriptionDefault error severity
Inconsistencies
1.DuplicatedWordThe target segment contains repeated words.Warning
2.UneditedMatchThe target segment contains fuzzy matches which have not been edited.Warning
Length verification
3.LengthLimitationFixedThe target segment exceeds the permitted character limit.Error
4.LengthLimitationContextLongThe target segment of a given document structure element is above the permitted character limit.Error
LengthLimitationContextShortThe target segment of a given document structure element is below the permitted character limit.Error
Numbers
5.NumberMissingThe target segment does not contain a number which is present in the source segment.Error
6.TimeMissingThe target segment does not contain a time which is present in the source segment.Error
7.DateMissingThe target segment does not contain a date which is present in the source segment.Error
8.MeasurementMissingThe target segment does not contain a measurement which is present in the source segment.Error
9.NumberExtraThe target segment contains a number which is not present in the source segment.Error
10.TimeExtraThe target segment contains a time which is not present in the source segment.Error
11.DateExtraThe target segment contains a date which is not present in the source segment.Error
12.MeasurementExtraThe target segment contains a measurement which is not present in the source segment.Error
Punctuation
13.PunctuationDifferencesThe target segment does not end with the same punctuation as the source segment.Warning
14.SpanishPunctuationThe target segment does not observe Spanish punctuation.Warning
15.PunctuationSpaceThe target segment contains a space before the punctuation character which ends the sentence.Warning
16.PunctuationSpace_FrenchThe target segment does not observe French space punctuation. In French, there must be a space between the last word in a sentence and certain punctuation marks such as exclamation marks or question marks.Warning
17.MultipleSpacesThe target segment contains a sequence of spaces (at least two).Note
18.MultipleDotsThe target segment contains a sequence of dots (at least two).Note
19.ExtraEndSpaceThe target segments contains an extra space at the end.Warning
20.InitialCapsThe target segment does not contain an initial capital letter but the source target segment does.Warning
21.GlobalCapsThe target segment does not consist of capital letters, but the source target segment does.Warning
22.OpeningBracketMissingThe target segment does not contain an opening bracket, but the source target segment does.Warning
23.OpeningBracketExtraThe target segment contains an extra opening bracket, but the source target segment does not.Warning
24.ClosingBracketMissingThe target segment does not contain a closing bracket, but the source target segment does.Warning
25.ClosingBracketExtraThe target segment contains an extra closing bracket, but the source target segment does not.Warning
RegEx (Regular Expressions)
26.RegExReportThis reports if both source segments and target segments match the RegEx patterns.Warning
27.RegExReportSourceOnlyThis reports if the source segment matches the RegEx pattern.Warning
28.RegExReportTargetOnlyThis reports if the target segment matches the RegEx pattern.Warning
29.RegExDifferentCountThis reports if both source and target segments match but with different count.Warning
Segments to exclude
30.ReportAllNonExcludedThese are the target segments which were not included in the QA check because you configured the project settings to skip one or more of the following: segments with a specific match type, segments which are already confirmed, segments which are exact matches, segments which are fuzzy matches, segments with a specific context or segments from specific file locations.Note
Segment verification
31.ReportUntranslatedSegmentThe target segment is not translated or is empty.Error
32.IdenticalSegmentThe target segment is identical to the source segment.Warning
33.ForbiddenCharThe target segment contains a forbidden character.Error
34.SegmentLongerThe target segment is longer than a given percentage.Note
35.SegmentShorterThe target segment is shorter than a given percentage.Warning
Trademark check
36.TrademarkMissingThe target segment does not contain the same trademark or copyright symbols as the source segment.Error
37.TrademarkExtraThe target segment contains extra trademark or copyright symbols by comparison with the source segment.Error
Word lists
38.WordListCheckThe target segment contains terms which are included in the incorrect list of terms.Warning