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Allowing multiple 100% matches in TMs
17 February 2010 at 10:39am
For the most part, we discourage the use of multiple exact matches when setting up translation memories. This is to ensure the latest and greatest translation is always picked and to easily overwrite any incorrect entries. It reduces the time spent managing the TM, but also the time translators have to sort through and pick the right translation.
However, within very specialized industries such as medical, it sometimes does warrant the use of multiple exact matches to ensure only a limited and approved amount of possible translations are used.
To minimize TM maintenance, one workaround is to make use of either attributes or userids - anything that easily identifies the most recent, best translations in your TM, and easily ignore any older, non-approved items that might have snuck in. Then, you can do a simple export into .tmx, do a search on the specific userid or attribute which shows the approved translations, and replace the corresponding change date attribute to be today's date. Now, reimport the .tmx and any older entries will come secondary to these approved entries.
I would love to hear other do's and don'ts on how to work with multiple-exact match TMs!
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