One setting for all projects possible?

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Dear all! 
 Can anyone help me with the project settings in SDL 2018? I'd like to save just one setting, so I don't have to select the TMs etc. over and over again, which is very time consuming. Especially the Language Cloud machine translation takes ages to load. I just need one identical setting for all my files all the time. Thanks for your help! 
 Kathrin

Jerzy Czopik · Answer

Use project templates with individual settings. 
If you just change TMs with language pairs, configure this settings in corresponding language pairs via File -> Options to have the settings selected, when you select the proper language pair. 
But in general working with project templates is the long-term solution you're looking for.

Paul Filkin · Answer

Hi Kathrin Schwardt 
 Kathrin Schwardt said: I open all my files directly from my e-mail-account. 
 Perhaps the first important point here is you have to work a different way as this isn't a good practice. You need to create Studio Projects to be able to work with project templates and this means saving your files from your email account to some sensible folder structure first. Maybe organised by customer perhaps? 
 Kathrin Schwardt said: What is a Project Wizard? 
 Then you would create a project by using the command "New Project" from the Studio Projects View, or by dragging and dropping the file into the Studio Welcome View. When you do either of these things the Project Wizard will start up and guide you through the steps to create your project. The firstr step will be to select the Project template and once you have done this you just click ok and the project will be created with all the pre-configured resources and settings you used for the selected template.

Paul Filkin · Answer

Dear Kathrin Schwardt 
 
Yes, that would be exactly the reason. If you receive an sdlppx file then this is a zipped up project that has been created already by your client. So you would open this in Studio with Open Package, or double click it, and this will create your project for you. So you won't see the Project Wizard descibed by Jerzy and me. 
 
But in this case you can still use Project Templates to add the TMs and Termbases you wish to use to those defined by your Client. There is a neat application on the SDL AppStore called Apply Project Template which you read about here: 
 
 multifarious.filkin.com/.../ 
 
This allows you to overwrite, or merge, parts of the project settings defined by your client. So if TMs, or Language Cloud settings are the things you want to use then you can apply a template set up with these settings and merge them into those provided by your client.

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One setting for all projects possible?