How can I let Trados deal 11-april-2023 or 11April2023 as a date?

Question

Sometimes, the document has date writing as following: 
 11-March-2023 
 23April2022 
 
 How can I set to let Trados recongize those items as date?

Emma Goldsmith · Answer

Since Studio doesn't recognise dates without spaces, I use the Regex Match Autosuggest Provider plug-in: 
 In the plug-in, define all months as variables (and call them "Month") and translate them under the Variables tab. Then write the Regex Pattern, which for a date without spaces is

(\d{1,2})(#Month#)(\d+)

Then enter the back references $1 $2 $3 in the Replace Pattern field. 
 Once you've set it up, as soon as you type the first digit in your target segment, autosuggest will offer you the correct date format with spaces.

Paul · Answer

Henry Huang 
 As Lydia eluded to... I would use the SDLXLIFF toolkit to adapt the source across the whole file in one go and then you'll get the features you want in all modes of work... pre-translation and interactively.

Paul · Answer

Henry Huang 
 You can't. If I was you I'd use the sdlxliff toolkit to adapt the source dates to something that can be recognised.

Paul · Answer

Henry Huang 
 Perhaps start with these resources? 
 https://multifarious.filkin.com/2012/08/31/terminjector/ 
 https://multifarious.filkin.com/2012/12/03/nonrecognised_placeables/ 
 If they still don't help perhaps consider making use of the Community Solutions Hub.

Lydia Simplicio · Answer

Henry Huang

Do these dates need to be localized or simply copy source date to target but keep the format the same?

Localizing dates would be managed within the TM settings under "language Resources"

You can create custom date formats telling Studio how to recognise it but it does have 1 requirement that your format does not support.
It needs to have some kind of separator to help Studio recognise it's a date:

Trados Studio language resources settings showing an error message for German date formats indicating 'Date format is incomplete. Missing d, M, y component or date separator.'

My recommendation would be to try perform some pre project effort on the source file.
Batch find and replace were you add a supported separator. Then post translation reverse your find and replace to restore the format as needed.

Regards

Lyds

Lydia Simplicio | RWS Group

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How can I let Trados deal 11-april-2023 or 11April2023 as a date?

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