Use the Leverage TM action to apply new translation memory to documents within any project. You may want to Leverage TM for an entire project or a group of documents...
- If the current workflow does not include a Leverage TM phase.
- If you need to leverage TM from a vault not already used in the default workflow.
- After the Leverage TM workflow phase is complete.
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To Leverage TM in a document or project,
- Click to open a project from your Projects menu.
- Choose to leverage TM for all of the documents within a project, or for only some of the documents within a project.
- To leverage TM for all of the documents in a project, open a project and select Leverage TM from the Project Actions menu.
- To leverage TM for only select documents within a project, open a project, and check the box(es) next to document(s) requiring a TM leverage.
Then select Leverage TM from the Document Actions menu.
- To leverage TM for all of the documents in a project, open a project and select Leverage TM from the Project Actions menu.
- Next, in the dialog, choose which TM vaults to leverage.
Click the check box next to Search TM vaults.
Then drag and drop the desired vaults to the right.
Tip: Tip title Leverage TM To remove a TM vault or glossary, simply drag and drop to the left.
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On the right, prioritize vaults by dragging and dropping up and down.
For each selected TM vault, leave the Leverage minimum at Exact 100%, or click the radio button to leverage lower quality matches.
To leverage lower quality matches, click the radio button and type in a percentage on the right.
Optionally choose to lock Exact 100% and/or Syntax 100% matches (so that linguists cannot edit the TM matches).
- Optionally add a penalty to automatically lower matches value from a specific vault.
Complete any other desired fields.
Most Info title Fields Most fields can be left at their default settings.
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If you want to complete extra settings, see the table below.- When you are ready, scroll down and click Leverage TM to save your preferences.
- This will run a translation memory leverage in the selected documents.
Completing the Dialog
See below for help completing each field in the dialog.
Option | Description | Required? |
Phase | Choose which workflow phase will leverage TM in the selected documents. | required |
Report Name | Give the report a descriptive name to help you locate it later. The complete TM analysis report will be available on each document's TM Statistics tab. | optional |
| Choose whether each document's TM results should be available to the linguist. | optional |
Search glossaries for exact matches | Leverage exact matches between source text and glossary entries | optional |
Search TM vaults | Leverage exact matches between source text and TM vault text Exact matches from Glossaries will take precedence over matches from TM Vaults. | required |
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If a translation already exists for a segment | If a segment has already been translated, and an exact match for the segment is found in translation memory, you can choose to… | optional |
| …overwrite the existing translation with TM. | |
| …keep the existing translation, and ignore the TM entry. | |
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If there are multiple exact matches for a segment | If a segment has several exact matches stored in translation memory, you can choose to… | optional |
| …use the most recently updated TM version. | |
| …ignore the TM and have translators provide a new translation. |
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