Once you have created a termbase in MultiTerm, you can open it in SDL Trados Studio so that you can add entries and get matches from the termbase during translation.
In the Editor view, with a document open in Translation mode, the Term Recognition window at the top right initially indicates that there is no termbase open, as shown in the following screenshot:
To select a termbase to use during translation, perform the following steps:
- To open a termbase, click the Project Termbase Settings button on the right of the toolbar (highlighted in the preceding screenshot). In the Termbases pane of the Project Settings dialog box, click Add. In the Select Termbases dialog box, click Browse and select one or more termbases. The selected termbases then appear in a list identified by their friendly name. Each has a checkbox by which it can be selected or deselected for use, as shown in the following screenshot:
- Click OK to add the termbases to the list in the Termbases pane of the Project Settings dialog box, as shown in the following screenshot:
Entries that you add to a termbase while translating in SDL Trados Studio are added only to the termbase marked default, which is always the one at the top of the list. The other termbases will provide matches but not receive new term entries. To change the default termbase, use the Move Up and Move Down buttons, or Set Default button, on the right.
- Click OK to open the termbase(s) for use during translation.
In this section, we will describe several ways to add entries to a termbase and to insert termbase matches in your target segments efficiently as you translate.
First use your mouse to select the text in both the source and target segments, as shown in the following screenshot:
To add the entry to the default termbase, right-click the selected phrase and choose Add new term, or press Ctrl + F2. The source and target terms now appear in editable mode on the left of the Editor in the Termbase Viewer pane (which is minimized until you create a new termbase entry).
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Sometimes, messages relating to the user's Java setup can appear at this point. For information on this issue, see the SDL Knowledgebase article at http://tinyurl.com/multiterm-java.
To edit a term entry before you add it to the termbase, double-click in the term field to expand it as shown in the following screenshot, and edit the text:
To finish editing the term, click anywhere in the Termbase Viewer pane outside the term field or press Enter. You can also use the Tab key to jump between the fields of the editing form.
To add information to a descriptive field, click the down arrow icon at the appropriate entry level (entry, language, or term), and select the descriptive field from the list. In the following screenshot, we are adding information to the Subject field at entry level:
To finish editing the descriptive field, click anywhere in the Termbase Viewer pane outside the descriptive field or press Enter.
To add a synonym, click the down arrow icon next to the language name and choose Term.
To remove a descriptive field, click the name of the descriptive field and press Delete.
To add the entry to the termbase, you must save it by clicking the Save this Entry button or pressing Ctrl + F12. Note that the entry is not added to the termbase until you save it.
To edit an existing entry, on the left of the Termbase Viewer pane, select the term in the list, and click the Edit this Entry button or press F2. If the Termbase Viewer pane is not displayed, from the View tab, choose Termbase Viewer.
To open Termbase Viewer with terms displayed in the Term Recognition window as matching entries for the segment that is active in the side-by-side Editor, select the entry in the Term Recognition window, right-click, and choose View term details.
Termbase matches are displayed by a red line over the corresponding text in the source segment, as with the two entries European Union institutions and open competition shown in the following screenshot:
The entries also appear in the Term Recognition window. If there is more than one termbase, the name of the termbase that produces the match appears on the right of the source term as in the following screenshot:
The buttons at the top of the screenshot are, from left to right, View term details, Insert term translation, Hitlist settings, and Project Termbase Settings. We will refer to these buttons in the explanations later in this chapter.
In each of the following methods, position the cursor at the appropriate point in the target segment first.
- AutoSuggest method: Type the first letter of the entry in the target language. You will be given a list of AutoSuggest matches, including termbase entries beginning with that letter. AutoSuggest matches can come from any AutoSuggest dictionaries or AutoText entries that you are working with, as well as from the termbase. The following screenshot shows an AutoSuggest list with matches from the termbase (at the top) and the AutoSuggest dictionary, represented by different icons:
To insert the termbase entry, double-click it in the list, or select it and press Enter.
AutoSuggest matches are, by default, not case sensitive. This means that if you type the first letter as a capital, the entry is inserted with an initial capital, even if the entry in the termbase does not itself begin with a capital letter.
- Shortcut method: The shortcut Ctrl + Shift + L produces a list of termbase entries for the segment, as shown in the following screenshot. To insert the term, double-click it in the list, or select it and press Enter.
- Mouse method: In the Term Recognition window, select the target term and click the Insert term translation button.
Descriptive field information is, by default, not displayed alongside termbase matches in the Term Recognition window. To change this behavior, in the Term Recognition window, click the Hitlist settings button, choose Select fields, and select the descriptive fields that you want to appear. In the following screenshot, we select the Subject field at entry level and the Notes fields that appear by the terms themselves:
An entry for which we have selected an option from the Subject list and entered some text in the Note field against the target term will appear in the Term Recognition window as in the following screenshot:
