Specifying settings for QA Checker
Specify the settings used when quality assurance (QA) checks are performed on your files, to fine tune your translation.
About this task
Specify which checks are run as part of the QA Checker verification by adjusting QA Checker 3.0 settings. The QA Checker enables you to carry out checks on the file you are currently working on using a number of verification criteria, such as length checks, punctuation checks and so on.
All QA Checker settings can be defined globally, but some of them can also be defined at language-pair level:
- Punctuation
- Numbers
- Word List
- Regular Expressions
- QA Checker Profiles
The settings you define at language-pair level override the global settings.
Procedure
- Choose where you want to specify the settings.
- To specify verification settings for your active project, go to Project Settings.
- To specify verification settings for your active project but only for a specific language pair, go to .
- To specify verification settings for all future projects, go to .
- To specify verification settings during batch tasks, go to the Projects view or the Files view, select Batch Tasks, choose a batch process and go to the Settings page.
- To specify verification settings in a project template, create a project template by going to the Projects view selecting Create Project Template from the Ribbon, then specify verification settings in the Project Template Settings dialog. You can also edit an existing project template.
- Select from the navigation tree.
- Specify the settings for the following:
- Segments verification - check that segments are completed correctly and there are no missing translations.
- Segments to exclude - skip certain segments, for example, if a PerfectMatch has already been found.
- Inconsistencies - check for inconsistencies if the same text is rendered in several different ways.
- Punctuation - make sure that punctuation is correct. For example, in some countries, certain punctuation rules have to be observed.
- Numbers - check that numbers, times and dates are correct.
- Word list - specify the correct form of a word that should be used. For example, you could specify to only use website as one word and not two.
- Regular expressions - set up regular expressions. Checks if some specified regular expression (word patterns) exist.
- Trademark check - check that trademarks are used correctly.
- Length verification - check that the length of the target segments is no longer than a specified number of characters.
- QA Checker profiles - save, switch and share QA Checker profiles. Profiles contain the settings specified on all of the pages in the QA Checker 3.0 settings.
- Select OK to save your settings and close the dialog.