This section describes how to analyze an individual document or several files in a project.
Note
Analysis provides a snapshot of the similarity between the document for translation and the TM(s) at that point in time. For invoicing and quoting purposes, it is therefore essential to do the analysis before you start translating. Obviously, if you translate the document and update the TM with its content first and then run the analysis second, the result will be a series of 100% matches, which is no use for quoting or invoicing.
To analyze an individual document that you have opened in the Editor and saved as SDLXLIFF (such as our sample file), perform the following steps:
- From the Home tab, choose Batch Tasks | Analyze Files, as shown in the following screenshot (saving the SDLXLIFF first if prompted):
- In the first screen of the wizard, Batch Tasks, click Next.
- The second screen, Settings, offers various optional settings. If you are new to the Analyze Files task, you may wish to try it with the default settings first. Otherwise, the optional settings and their effects are discussed in a later section, Configuring the settings. If you are using the sample file, we suggest that you try running the analysis twice, before and after you configure the settings, and compare the results.
- Click Finish to run the analysis. When the Performing tasks window displays the word Completed, click Close to complete the process.
- You will now be prompted to reopen the document (because SDL Trados Studio has to close it to perform the analysis). To reopen the document, click Yes.
Using the New Project command (from, for example, the middle of the Welcome view), you can group several files in one project and then translate and work with some or all of them at once (projects are discussed in detail in Chapter 7, Working with Projects).
To analyze all the translation files in a project, go to the Projects view. In the list of projects, select the project name. From the Home tab or right-click menu, choose Batch Tasks | Analyze Files and follow the wizard through as described in the steps in the previous section.
To analyze selected files in a project, go to the Projects view. In the list of projects, select the project name. Now go to the Files view and select the files you want to analyze. Choose the Analyze Files batch task and proceed as described in the steps in the previous section.