SDL Trados Studio: Working with bilingual sdlxliff files merged before project creation

You have physically merged *.sdlxliff files/documents during the creation of a project.



You would now like to work with these bilingual *.sdlxliff files in a different project, however adding the merged *.sdlxliff file to the different project is showing various problems e.g. no possibility to run a Word Count via the Batch Tasks.

Note: This article does not apply if you are working with *.sdlxliff files merged during the creation of the active project.

Adding merged *.sdlxliff files to existing project possible with restrictions

Adding bilingual *.sdlxliff files that are already merged to a new project is possible.
However, certain functionality may be restricted. This includes:

• it is not possible to run the batch tasks Word Count or WIP Report
• the batch tasks Translation Count, Pre-ranslate Files and Apply PerfectMatch will effect incorrect confirmation statistics
• in the Files view, the actual source files will not be displayed - only the merged sdlxliff file.

Working with merged *.sdlxliff files without feature restrictions

To avoid above issues, you can create the new project based on the original source files instead of the merged sdlxliff files.

Above restrictions will facilitate the error Confirmation statistics word count is greater than the total number of words when checking in files in a GroupShare server project.
Refer to following KB article to work around this problem:

• Error when checking in a GroupShare project file: Confirmation statistics word count is greater than the total number of words (if bilingual file was merged before project creation)