Introduction

Learn about the Display Filter API and how to create a custom filter to enhance segment filtering in Trados Studio.

What is a Custom Display Filter?

A display filter in Trados Studio limits which segments the Editor displays based on specific attributes. Third-party developers can integrate custom display filters that process segments in the Trados Studio Editor.

The Advanced Display Filter that ships with Trados Studio demonstrates one Display Filter API implementation. It provides Trados Studio power-users with more filtering options than the standard Display Filter offers.

Access the Advanced Display Filter by clicking View > Advanced Display Filter.

In the Advanced Display Filter window, end-users create and save filters based on:

• Segment content - Display segments containing certain text in source or target
• Filter attributes - Filter by segment status, translation origin, or other attributes
• Comments - Refine searches to display only segments reviewed by specific people or segments with certain severity levels
• Document structure - Filter by document structure elements

Use the Advanced Display Filter

The Advanced Display Filter tabs let end-users configure filtering attributes for the Editor.

Users can filter segments by source and target text. They can then apply segment attributes such as status, translation origin, or review mode.

To display only segments commented by a certain reviewer on a topic, users filter by author and subject. Finally, users can filter by document structure.