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Thread poster: Pauline Ratzé
Pauline Ratzé
Pauline Ratzé
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Jan 7, 2013

Hello,

I have a doubt about how to handle locked tags.

In my original files, all tags are locked (displayed with the lock icon). But when I insert them in the translated segments, they don't appear locked.

Is there a special way to handle these, so they also appear as locked in the translation?

Thank you for your help,

Pauline
 
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Locked tags Jan 7, 2013

Hi Pauline,

I created a quick test file like this to make sure we are talking about the same thing:


To work with this I type a little text and then press Ctrl+comma as usual... I now see this:


I select the tag I want (in this case ident... See more
Hi Pauline,

I created a quick test file like this to make sure we are talking about the same thing:


To work with this I type a little text and then press Ctrl+comma as usual... I now see this:


I select the tag I want (in this case identifying the one based on the highlighting in the source as they have the same name) and press enter... I now see this:


I also tried copying and pasting... and the locked text and tags come through ok too as long as I take the tags with the text. If I only copy the text then the tags don't come through and if I try to use the mouse method of selecting tags to add them after then they locked symbols are missing.

So I think the best approach would be to use Ctrl+comma.

Does this help?

Regards

Paul ▲ Collapse
 
Pauline Ratzé
Pauline Ratzé
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Problem solved! Jan 7, 2013

Thanks a million!

I was adding the tags alone, selecting the tags and clicking on it to add it directly (without using Ctrl+comma) and then adding the text…

So, not only your answer is the solution to your problem, but from now on I will save time adding the tags and text together!

Thanks again,

Pauline
 
RWS Community
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Excellent... Jan 7, 2013

... you might find this post useful too as it covers most of what you need to know about working with tags in Studio: http://wp.me/p2xDjK-9I

Regards

Paul
 
Pauline Ratzé
Pauline Ratzé
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Thank you Jan 9, 2013

Thank you for the link, the post is really useful and I will definitely follow your blog.

Regards,

Pauline
 


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