How to Determine the Origin of a Particular Translation Memory (TM) Match in a File

Introduction

Sometimes, while performing translation on a particular file, you might come across an TM match that you did not expect to appear. This article explains how to find out the origin of a particular TM match in the file, in XTM Cloud.


Specifics

In XTM Workbench, go to the Matches panel and click on the Metadata panel for a particular TM match. You will find three pieces of information with which you can to identify the TM match:

  • Project → Name of the project from which the TM match in question originates.

  • Database ID → Unique ID of the TM match.

  • File → Name of the source file from which the TM match originates.

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Regardless of whether we apply this TM match to a target segment or insert new translation, these values will not change in the existing TM match after a new TM is created, even if the file name might be missing in the existing TM match’s metadata in XTM Workbench.

You can search for a TM match via its Database ID. To do so, select TM → Manage. You can then also easily find out which project the segment was originally created in.

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Good to know!

To easily view all the relevant segments in which a particular word or phrase has occurred, you can do the following:

  1. Open the original project in XTM Workbench.

  2. Select File → Find and replace → Options.

  3. Select the Include segments from all files option.

  4. Search for the word or phrase that you want to find. All TM segments that contain it will be displayed.