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

Question

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?

Paul Filkin · Answer

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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Paul Filkin · Answer

Hi Patrick Mayr , 
 
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

Paul Filkin · Answer

Michael Beijer Louise Harrison 
 
This one I think: 
 
 community.sdl.com/.../a-better-management-for-the-users-names-appearing-in-the-remarks

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