Creating and managing projects

SDL Trados Studio is a project-based translation management system. All files are translated and managed as part of a project, which may contain a single file or many files for translation into one language or several languages. It may also contain reference material, translation memories (TMs), termbases, AutoSuggest dictionaries and instructions for translators.

Quick start guides

To get started, SDL recommends completing the exercises in the quick start guides. These guides will get you up and running quickly with SDL Trados Studio. The guides contain a series of lessons which you can go through in sequence from the first lesson to the last.

Getting started with SDL Trados Studio

SDL Trados Studio enables organizations to effectively manage all aspects of translation projects.

Trados Studio incorporates project management and computer-aided translation (CAT) tools for use by project managers, translators, editors, proofreaders and other language professionals. These are presented in easy-to-use views which you can arrange to look and work the way that you prefer.

Find valuable resources to start working with Trados Studio. You can choose between videos or written instructions.

This is a list of changes made to the to the SDL Trados Studio 2019 documentation portal since its official release on 23 July 2018.

Welcome to the SDL Trados Studio 2019 documentation

SDL Trados Studio is a complete translation environment for translating, reviewing and managing translation projects and terminology.

You can find resources on installing and using SDL Trados Studio in this documentation portal.

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How to View and Work with a Report

You can perform all of the actions below in the Reports view.

NOTE	If you want to change what the report will look like when it is viewed, previewed, printed or saved, click Home tab > Reports group > Page Setup to display the Page Setup dialog box where you can change the headers and footers, paper size, page orientation and margins.

Report Descriptions

Report	Description
Analyze Files	Provides details about the number and type of translation memory matches found for your project files. The report lists PerfectMatches, Context matches, Repetitions, Cross-file repetitions, 100% matches, Fuzzy matches and non-translated items.

About Report Analysis Counts

The analysis process counts the different types of matches by segments, words, characters, recognized tokens or tags. The table below describes what each count includes.

About Report Settings

Analysis Report Settings

You can specify these settings on the following pages:  Analyze Files, Search and Penalties.

Generating and Viewing Reports

Reports in SDL Trados Studio display data that was collected when batch tasks were run on the project files. Some batch tasks are run when a project is created and others you can run at any time.  

Batch Task Descriptions

These are the individual batch tasks which can be run on project files. You can run tasks individually or you can put several of them into a task sequence and run the sequence. When you run a task sequence, all tasks in a sequence are applied to all selected files.

How to Perform a Lookup and Apply Translations

This topic describes how to manually perform a lookup in the translation memory and how to apply translation memory matches to your active document in the Editor view.

How to Perform a Concordance Search

This topic describes how to perform a concordance search in the Editor view.

To perform a concordance search in the Editor view, you can:

How to Open a Translation Memory

If you already have default translation memories selected in the Options dialog box or translation memories selected in your Project Settings, they are automatically opened when you open a document for translation.

How to Browse Termbase Entries

1.     In the Editor view, open the termbase you want to browse. A termbase may have automatically opened when you opened your document.

How to Open a Termbase

If you already have default termbases selected in the Options dialog box or termbases selected in your Project Settings, they are automatically opened when you open a document for translation.

Performing Analysis with Tracked Changes

When the Analyze Files, Word Count or Translation Count tasks are run on the files in a project, tracked changes in the source segments are treated as if they are accepted. Lookups in the TM are also based on the accepted tracked changes.

Working with a TM and Tracked Changes

When you have tracked changes in your document, performing a lookup in a TM, updating a TM or applying results from a TM work in the following ways:

Why Tracked Changes in the Source are Useful

Tracked changes in the original source document are displayed in the source segments when the file is opened for translation in Studio. These tracked changes are read-only and cannot be accepted or rejected in Studio. In addition, if any further changes are made to the source in Studio, these changes cannot be tracked.