XML. files and Author-IT problems (SDL Studio 2019)

Question

Hello, I'm writing because I'm having problems with XML. files and the Author-IT. First of all, I can't save any document as an XML. file because it doesn&rsquo;t find the tag configuration file (INI) named Author-IT XML.But I have an INI Author-IT. Secondly, I can't open some xml. files that I have to translate because the argument &ldquo;picture&rdquo; must be an image that can be used as an Icon. I don't know what to do. Besides, the document is locked or protected and I cannot unlock it.As it doesn't work I alwasy close the document and another message appears saying "Reference to object instance is not established as an object". BTW, I have SDL Trados 2019. Can someone help me? 
 Thanks, 
 Vanessa

Paul Filkin · Answer

Hi Vanessa Díaz Miralles 
 
I think there's a few things here to clarify. 
 
1. Studio 2019 has a built in filetype for Author-it XML so you should not need to use an ini file 
2. The ini file is an old Trados Workbench settings file which can be used to create a Studio settings file, but you should not need this 
3. I think the icon you are referring to is the old way of creating a custom Author-it filetype in Studio with the ini and a custom icon 
 
At least this is what it sounds like to me. But perhaps try typing Author into tell me and you'll get to the settings. Don't type Author-it because that won't find anything! 
 
So you should be able to just open an Author-it XML in Studio without the ini file and Studio should handle it. If you need to tweak the parser rules then do this in the Studio filetype rather than create a new one.

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XML. files and Author-IT problems (SDL Studio 2019)