Warnings (or Errors)

The Warnings (or Errors) window shows the quality assurance (QA) warnings for just one segment in the translation editor.

When you confirm a segment in the translation editor, or run QA on a document, memoQ adds warnings  or errors to segments that break a QA rule. You can see these signs in the translation editor next to the target column, under the translation's match rate.

How to get here

  1. Open a project.
  2. Open a document for editing.
  3. Find a segment that has a warning or an error.

    Two rows from the translation editor showing the source language and target language. On the right side of the target language, there are match rates, a lightning bolt warning icon, an exclamation mark error icon, an "x" icon for not confirmed translation, and comment bubble icon.

  4. Double-click the lightning bolt  or the exclamation mark .

    The Warnings (or Errors) window opens:

  5. Double-click the lightning bolt or the exclamation mark.

    Pop-up window showing list of warnings. On the right, there is a code number for the warning, description, and check box for ignoring the warning.

    Can't find a warning that you know was there? Perhaps you ran the Run QA command, but then confirmed one or more segments. That's when some warnings might disappear. This is because the Run QA command runs more checks than segment confirmation does. These are mostly consistency checks (e.g. checking if the same segment was translated several different ways). When you confirm a segment, QA rechecks the segment. But this time only 'quick' checks run, the consistency checks don't. Because of this, the warning sign might disappear even if you do not change the segment or the QA settings resource.

What can you do?

  • Examine each of the segment's warnings and errors.

  • Ignore warnings. To ignore a warning: In its row, check the Ignore check box.

    After you ignore every warning in a segment, the lightning bolt turns gray:

    A row from the translation editor showing the source language and target language. On the right side of the target language, there is a match rate, a grey lightning bolt warning icon, an exclamation mark error icon, an "x" icon for not confirmed translation, and a comment bubble icon.

When you finish

To return to the translation editor: Click Close.

To see and fix errors and warnings for more than one segment: 

  1. On the translation editor's Review ribbon, click the Quality Assurance  button.

  2. In the Run QA window, check the Proceed to resolve warnings after QA check box, and click OK.

    Tthe Resolve errors and warnings tab opens.