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How can you change the user name that appears in the editor window of SDL Studio 2015 comments?

Jan Liebelt

No matter what name I set for the TM User ID under Setup>Users, all comments I insert into translations are always labelled as coming from user "jan_000".

This is really annoying and potentially, especially when I am leaving the comments for someone else. How can I change this?
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    Hi Jan,

    The TM User ID is only used to stamp the TUs and not for comments. You can't set the comment ID and it's taken from your user name on your computer.

    However, if this is a problem then after you have finished making the comments just open the bilingual sdlxliff file in a decent text editor and search for this:

    user="pfilkin"

    I used my username obviously, but then you can replace with something else:

    user="dduck"

    Save the file and when you reopen the bilingual file it will have a new username. Just in case you have anything else in there using your username (track changes for example) and you want to keep that you could be more specific and look for the username inside the comments element. For example, the comments will all be in one place within the Comments element like this:

    <Comments><Comment severity="Low" user="pfilkin" date="2016-07-15T12:24:43.6530274+02:00" version="1.0">My comment on the text</Comment>

    So simple enough to find.

    Hope this helps... but maybe this is a good idea for an app... something to anonymise or specify user ids wherever they are used in the bilingual file. Probably very simple to do.

    Regards

    Paul

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  • 0 in reply to Paul Filkin
    Hello

    I would suggest that it is a good idea for SDL Trados studio to respect the name chosen in the setup of Trados and attach this one to the comment, not some user name a user chose when setting up their computer, not thinking that this will ever be sent to their clients.

    SDL has already made the first step and allowed to use our own name since I think Studio 2015 (before this was not possible at all and only the windows user name was used). Next step would be to implement this throughout all of Studio, including the comments.

    I am quite sure there are quite a lot of SDL Trados users whose windows name (superhero, master of the universe, aso.) is sent to their clients because they did not realise it is given as the author of their comments. It should not require an external text edit of the sdlxliff file to have the author's name chosen during setup given in the comment.

    I am sure SDL is capable of this :)!
  • 0 in reply to Patrick Mayr
    Hi ,

    In the meantime here's two suggestions:

    1. You should raise this as an idea here: http://ideas.sdl.com
    2. Try this plugin: appstore.sdl.com/.../

    I'm sure the development team are capable of it, but unless lots of people say they want it I don't see it getting any priority in development, so logging the idea and getting people to vote for it is a good way forward.

    Regards

    Paul

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  • 0 in reply to Paul Filkin
    Dear Paul,

    Thank you for the hint! I am quite new to actually commenting here and didn't know about the ideas section. In my opinion it's a bug as I think this is not on purpose, but a leftover from the previous versions :). I will raise it there!
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