Filtering and sorting the translation document

In the translation grid, you can edit the contents of a translation document manually. Translation documents, however, often contain a multitude of segments, which may be difficult to navigate. The filtering and sorting toolbar of the translation grid allows you to filter or sort the segments in the translation document so that you can work with it easily.

 
MemoQ filtering and sorting Filtering and sorting (translation document)

Use

On the left side of the filtering and sorting toolbar – the filtering options –, you can define a subset of all segments in the translation document view to see. By using the filters, you will not see irrelevant segments. On the right side of the filtering and sorting toolbar – the sorting options –, you can set the order in which the segments are displayed. This will help you in navigation.

Note: You always specify filtering and sorting parameters for individual translation documents. In memoQ, you cannot edit multiple translation documents in a single document tab. To edit segments from multiple documents in a single document tab, create a view from the documents.

Note: You can also filter and sort the segments when editing the contents of views.

Filtering Options

· Source: Use this field to enter the words you are looking for on the source side. If you filter for source segments, you will only see those segments that contain the words you specified in the source language.
· Target: Use this field to enter the words you are looking for on the target side. If you filter for target segments, you will only see those segments that contain the words you specified in the target language.

Note: memoQ lists those segments in which any of the words you entered appear. In formal logic, this is called an OR relationship.

· aA: Click this check box to distinguish between upper case and lower case characters when looking for matches. If the check box is on, the word “memoQ” will not be found if you enter “Memoq”. Clear the check box to get more results.
· MemoQ icon filter Filtering and sorting (translation document): Click this button to look for segments having certain segment types. The Specify segment status dialog appears where you can select the properties of the segments you want to see in the filtered view.
· MemoQ icon filter 2 Filtering and sorting (translation document): Click this button to start filtering for segments containing the words you entered into the Source and/or Target field.

Note: If you specified criteria that are not met by any of the translation document segments, an empty translation document view will be displayed. Specify other filtering options or reset filtering to see all segments in the translation document.

· MemoQ icon filter 3 Filtering and sorting (translation document): Click this button to reset filtering.

Sorting Options

· Sort: Use this drop-down list to specify the criteria for sorting contents of the translation document. You can choose a sorting order from the following:
o No sorting: Select this option to not sort contents of the translation document.
o Alphabetic by source (A -> Z): choose this option to sort contents of the translation document by the source language entries, alphabetically, in increasing order.
o Alphabetic by source (Z -> A): choose this option to sort contents of the translation document by the source language entries, alphabetically, in decreasing order.
o Alphabetic by target (A -> Z): choose this option to sort contents of the translation document by the target language entries, alphabetically, in increasing order.
o Alphabetic by target (Z -> A): choose this option to sort contents of the translation document by the target language entries, alphabetically, in decreasing order.
o Source text length (shorter first): choose this option to sort contents of the translation document by the source language entries, by length, in increasing order.
o Source text length (longer first): choose this option to sort contents of the translation document by the source language entries, by length, in decreasing order.
o Target text length (shorter first): choose this option to sort contents of the translation document by the target language entries, by length, in increasing order.
o Target text length (longer first): choose this option to sort contents of the translation document by the target language entries, by length, in decreasing order.
o Match rate (higher first): choose this option to sort contents of the translation document by the match rate of the source language entries, in increasing order.
o Match rate (lower first): choose this option to sort contents of the translation document by the match rate of the source language entries, in decreasing order.
o Frequency (higher first): choose this option to sort contents of the translation document by the frequency of the source language entries, in increasing order.
o Frequency (lower first): choose this option to sort contents of the translation document by the frequency of the source language entries, in decreasing order.

Filtering and sorting (translation document)