Viewing change history

You can check various changes that are made at entry level, term level, and field level.

About this task

Information about changes is presented in two ways, according to its complexity:
  • The change history shows basic information such as the user who created or modified an entry, as well as the date and time when the entry was created and last modified.A change history sample.
  • The change log presents in-depth information about all the changes made to an entry since it was created; for example, the current and previous value of a field or the addition and removal of terms in the languages of the termbase.A change log sample.

Procedure

  1. Log in to Trados Enterprise by accessing this link: https://cloud.trados.com.
  2. Go to the Resources view and select Linguistic Resources > Termbases OR select the Terminology view from the main menu, and then select Termbases.
  3. Click inside a termbase row to open the appropriate termbase.
  4. Select the entry of interest.
  5. Do one of the following:
    • To view the change history of an entry, toggle on the History option in the upper-right corner.
    • To view the entire change log of an entry, expand the Activity panel.
      In the Activity panel, use advanced filters to find information about specific changes. Select a filter and a value, and then select The button that you need to select to apply a filter.. The following filters are available:
      • Field – To view all the changes made to a certain field.
      • Term – To view all the changes made to a certain term.
      • Language – To view all the changes made to a certain language.
      • User – To view all the changes made by a certain user.
      • Actions – To view all the actions of a certain type. Possible values are Add, Remove, and Update.An advanced filter (Actions).
      For each filter, the values that you can select reflect the changes that have been made up to that point. For example, if nothing has been removed or deleted in a particular entry, the Remove value will not be available for the Actions filter.

      When you merge a duplicate term with an existing entry, the differences between the two are displayed immediately in the Activity panel.

      If you apply different filters at the same time (for example, Language - English and Actions - Add), only the results that meet all the filtering criteria are displayed. However, if you apply two or more filters of the same type (for example, Actions - Add and Actions - Remove), the results displayed meet at least one of the filtering criteria.

      When you use the search bar, make sure that you only enter current or previous values corresponding to the Field, Term, and User filters. For example, if you search for Jane Smith, all the actions performed by that particular user are displayed. However, if you search for English (which is a value that does not correspond to any of the filters mentioned earlier), no results will be displayed. Similarly, no results will be displayed if you search for the name of a filter (User) or for any other term in the description of the action (changed, entry, etc.).

      Testing results have shown that a default text size (or zoom) of 100% in your browser settings combined with the recommended text size in your operating system settings (usually between 100% and 150%) is an optimal setup for the Activity panel on most display devices. Using higher text size values might make text in the panel more difficult to read.