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How to create a X-bench file
Thread poster: Lorenzo Rossi
Lorenzo Rossi
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German to Italian
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Dec 2, 2022

Dear ladies and gentlemen

I have to generate a X-bench file for a translation done in Trados. I never did it before. How should I proceed?
I use Trados 2017 and 2019.

Thank you.

Lorenzo
 
Samuel Murray
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Netherlands
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English to Afrikaans
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@Lorenzo Dec 2, 2022

In Xbench, go Project > New. Then make sure the "Files" tab is open in the dialog (it should be), and drag-and-drop the SDLXLIFF file into it. Xbench will ask you to confirm the file type ("Trados Studio File"), so just click OK and OK again. Then, in Xbench, go Tools > Check Ongoing Translation. It should show you a list of all things it discovered. Then, in Xbench, go Tools > Export QA Results, and select Excel in the file type.

Then, look in the Excel file and fix the issues... See more
In Xbench, go Project > New. Then make sure the "Files" tab is open in the dialog (it should be), and drag-and-drop the SDLXLIFF file into it. Xbench will ask you to confirm the file type ("Trados Studio File"), so just click OK and OK again. Then, in Xbench, go Tools > Check Ongoing Translation. It should show you a list of all things it discovered. Then, in Xbench, go Tools > Export QA Results, and select Excel in the file type.

Then, look in the Excel file and fix the issues in Trados. Then redo these steps to create a new QA report (rinse and repeat). Once you're certain you fixed all issues, create a final QA report and send it to your client saying "they're all false positives".

(If you're working on a Trados project and not just a single file, the SDLXLIFF file is located in a folder with the target language code, which is a subfolder of the project's project folder.)

[Edited at 2022-12-02 12:46 GMT] ▲ Collapse


Yossi Rozenman
 
H.W. Rin
H.W. Rin
Mexico
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Dutch to Frisian
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problem Jan 12

Hi, I get this error, what should I do?
¨there are no glossaries defined as ongoing translation or they have no segments¨
 
Riccardo Schiaffino
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United States
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English to Italian
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How to use Xbench Jan 13

Dear colleagues,

Please see these two presentations of mine, which should explain quite a bit about how to use Xbench:

https://www.aboutranslation.com/p/xbench-training.html
 


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