Introduction
The following article describes most common causes for which terms might not be highlighted in Workbench. As you will see in the next section, certain conditions on the XTM configuration level have to be met in the first place.
Prerequisites for highlighting terms in XTM Workbench
Highlighting of terms on the spot
You might be wondering, why the terms are not highlighted in blue immediately after creating a project and opening up 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.
The above mentioned option checks the entire file against the XTM terminology during project analysis. It will result in longer analysis but will allow for having all terms highlighted in Workbench whether it is opened in “Read mode” or in “Edit mode”.
If you do not check the said option, or you have changed the metadata for some terms, please, enter Workbench in “Edit mode” and click through segments. XTM will perform a check for these segments, and it will result in an update that will show the newest metadata.
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On the other hand, if you recently imported terms which are applicable to an already existing project, please, remember that you have got to re-analyze the whole project (with the option enabled), otherwise you need to keep clicking through the segments in Workbench.
Highlighting term variants (stemmed forms)
You might want to get familiar with the following article for more information on how stemming works: Stemming.
In order to enable highlighting of stemmed words in Workbench you need to to enable the Highlight all term variants option in Configuration → Settings → Translation → Terminology → Terminology options → Highlight all term variants.
No terms are highlighted
If you cannot highlight any terms even though you made sure that all the other settings are correct, you may want to double-check if the Disable term decoration option is unchecked in Configuration → Settings → Translation → Terminology → Terminology options → Disable term decoration.
Decorating terms without translations
If you wish the terms that have no translations to be highlighted in Workbench, you need to enable the Decorate terms without translations option in Configuration → Settings → Translation → Terminology → Terminology options → Decorate terms without translations.
Language combination
You can set up language combinations globally or per customer and your configuration in this regard is very important for terms to be highlighted correctly in Workbench.
If a given customer under whom there are some terms is using the Customised language combinations only option (i.e. it has pre-defined language combinations for which the projects can exclusively be created) in its settings, please make sure that a language combination that exists in the terminology tab for those terms is also set up there:
Existence of stop words
Please, remember that stop words are not highlighted in Workbench by default. In order to learn what stop words actually are as well as see a full list of those, please, get familiar with the following article: What are stop words?.