Managing Duplicate TM Units

Duplicates

The Lingotek TMS streamlines TM management by preventing duplicate TM units within the TM Vault. Before a new TM unit is added to a TM Vault, Lingotek first checks to see if the TM unit matches any of the existing TM units in the destination vault. If there's a match, the vault settings control how the system handles duplicates. 

The TMS considers a TM unit a "duplicate" of another TM unit if all of the following are true:

• The same TM Vault
• The same source language and locale
• The same target language and locale
• The same source text (i.e., 100% match)
• If there are any format tags, they must be in the same position (e.g., opening, closing, placeholder). TM units with the same tag position but different tag types are repaired, and the system still considers them duplicates. 

TM Repairing

If the leverage process finds a TM unit that matches your source text AND tag position, but the tags do not match, the leverage repairs the TM unit to match the source's tags. In the following scenario, the leverage process will match the TM unit with your source text as an Exact 100% match, but it will be considered a duplicate. We will not update The TM unit with the new tag element, and we will not create a new TM Unit. 

• TM unit source text – "The <b>dog</b> is red."
• Matched source text – "The <i>dog</i> is red."  

Duplicate Settings

Duplicate TM units are set by default to Update with the saved translation. To ensure the system doesn't save duplicate TM units:

1. Open TM Vaults under Project Resources from the sidebar menu.
2. Choose the desired TM Vault. 
3. Open Settings.
4. Under TM Unit Options select Don't Save. 
   
   

Adding/Moving Translation Memories

The following settings manage how the system handles duplicate TM units within the same TM Vault:

• When saving a segment translation, options are to:
  • update the TM unit in the 'save to' TM Vault with the new translation (default); or
  • not save it to prevent the creation of a duplicate TM unit within the TM Vault.
• When adding TM units to a TM Vault via file upload, options are to:
  • not import the duplicate TM unit (default); or
  • update the TM unit in the TM Vault with the TM unit from the uploaded file.
• When moving TM units from one TM Vault to another TM Vault, options are to:
  • keep the TM unit in the destination TM Vault (default); or
  • replace the TM unit in the destination TM Vault.

Exceptions

1. The user will create a duplicate TM unit if they edit the source text of a TM Unit in the TM Unit search results, and that edit results in the source text being the same as an existing TM Unit.