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Hi all,
I have searched my issue in different forums and couldn't find anything related to it. Hopefully someone can help me here

I work for the translation/localization company and we have clients sending us work in Flare. To prep the files for translation and import the translation, we use a combination of Flare (2018 r2) and Lingo (10.2.6786.30644). Everything goes well, I import the Flare project in Lingo, create XLF bundles, I put the whole structure as is in Trados and send to translation. My problem occurs when I need to merge the bundles back in Lingo. If I generate the Lingo XLF with Trados 2015, the merge in Lingo works, but if I generate the files with Trados 2021, the merge in Lingo doesn't work. Doesn't matter in which version of Trados I prepare the files, I tried preparing the files in Trados 2015 and 2021 and the result is the same.

I am wondering if anyone is aware of any incompatibility with Lingo and Trados 2021. Is it because the version of Lingo is not recent enough?
I use the Default template in Trados to process the Lingo XLF files, would the problem be there?

I did compare an output of Trados 2015 and Trados 2021, and tags (important ones) are not present in the Trados 2021 version - see screenshot attached. If necessary I could compare more files and generate reports.

Thank you in advance for any input!

Best,
Chris

Hi

I found this article, which mentioned the "seg-source" tag. Maybe the setting mentioned in here could help you get the expected behaviour?

https://community.sdl.com/product-group ... sdl-studio

Best of luck.

I just wrote down my workaround to solve this problem in an other topic: viewtopic.php?f=40&t=33538&p=143979#p143979.

Hope it works for you too.

Hi both,

thanks for your answers. Turned out that there were specific settings to use in Trados to make the tags appear properly in the target Lingo XLF. The big different from Trados 2015 and 2021 is that the phrasing is different and an option that had to be checked before has to be unchecked now and vice-versa. Since I have the proper settings and use a Trados template, I never had any issue again. Sometimes linguists merge segments in Trados and it causes an issue importing back in Lingo but this is another problem and can easily be fixed by merging the same segments in Lingo before importing the translated files.

Best,
Chris