Every segment has a status associated with it. The status of a segment essentially contains two information in it:
- How the translation was obtained
- Whether the segment is Confirmed or not i.e. are the post-editing changes made saved or not
Translation for a segment in the Transeditor can be obtained by any of the following three ways:
- From translation memories (TM)
- Machine translation (MT)
- Manual translation
Based on these three modes of translation, there are 6 possible segment statuses, which are,
- TM Unconfirmed
- TM Confirmed
- MT Unconfirmed
- MT Confirmed
- Manual Unconfirmed
- Manual Confirmed
There are two additional segment statuses, which are,
- Unopened – When a segment is undisturbed or not yet clicked and opened for post-editing
- Copied from the source – Using the “Copy icon” feature in toolbar, when source content is copied to target segment without translation
Segment statuses are especially helpful when working with files having a large number of segments.
You can filter segments in a file based on the status.
To do so, click “Filter dropdown” found at the right corner of toolbar
As not confirming a segment will not save the changes in the output file, hence when working with large files, it is also a good practice to check for any unconfirmed segments before proceeding to download the output file using the segment filter.