Introduction

This article describes the most common reasons for which terms might not be highlighted in XTM Workbench. As you will see in the next section, certain conditions at XTM Cloud configuration level must be met first.

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You might be wondering why the terms in a project are not highlighted in blue immediately after you create the a project and open XTM Workbench. The solution (administrative privileges required!) is to enable the Match terms in analysis option in Configuration → Settings → Translation → Terminology → Terminology engines → Match terms in analysis.

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The above-mentioned option checks the entire file against the XTM Cloud terminology during project analysis. It will result in analysis taking longer but will mean that all terms will be highlighted in XTM Workbench, whether it is opened in "Read mode" or in "Edit mode".

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To learn how stemming works, we recommend that you read this article: Stemming.

To enable the highlighting of stemmed words in XTM Workbench, you need to select the Highlight all term variants option in Configuration → Settings → Translation → Terminology → Terminology options → Highlight all term variants.

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No terms are highlighted

If you cannot highlight any terms, even though you have made sure that all the other settings are correct, we recommend that you double-check if the Disable term decoration option is deselected in Configuration → Settings → Translation → Terminology → Terminology options → Disable term decoration.

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Decorating terms without translations

If you want the terms that have no translations to be highlighted in XTM Workbench, you need to select the Decorate terms without translations option in Configuration → Settings → Translation → Terminology → Terminology options → Decorate terms without translations.

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IMPORTANT! It is important to note the difference between two terminology-related options that can be found in the QA profile’s settings: Translation of a term not found → it means that there exists a translation in the XTM Cloud Terminology base, for the target language in question, but it is different than whatever is actually inserted in XTM Workbench. Translation of term does not exist in terminology → it means that there is a source term but there is no translation for the target language that is currently being displayed in XTM Workbench. Image Added

Language combination

You can set up language combinations globally or per customer and the related configuration is very important in ensuring that terms are highlighted correctly in XTM Workbench.

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Remember that stop words are not highlighted in XTM Workbench by default. To learn what stop words actually are and to see a full list of them, we recommend that you read this article: What are stop words?.