Configure Auto-Propagation

Auto-Propagation preferences control the automatic update of TXLF segments with specified types of repeated content.

To configure auto-propagation:

  1. On the Sidebar, click .
  2. On the Preferences dialog, click Auto-Propagation under General Preferences.
  3. Select Enable Auto-Propagation for repetitions to activate additional auto-propagation options (default).
  4. Select Enable Auto-Propagation across all open files to allow the user to apply the proposed propagation to all files that are open.
  5. Select any of the Auto-Propagation overwrite options.

    Option

    Action

    Context matches

    Select to overwrite context leveraged translation memory (TM) matches.

    100% matches

    Select to overwrite 100% leveraged TM matches, enabled by default.

    Fuzzy matches

    Select to overwrite partial TM matches, enabled by default.

    No match

    Select to overwrite the target segment for segments that have no match, enabled by default.

    Auto-propagated matches

    Select to overwrite all auto-propagated matches, enabled by default.

    Note:   

    If there are multiple segments with the same content, editing a segment auto-propagates the change to all matching segments.

    Edited segments

    Select to overwrite edited segments.

    Machine translated segments

    Select to overwrite machine translated segments, enabled by default.

    Committed segments

    Select to overwrite all translated segments that are committed to the TM.