Create new QA settings

memoQ can check many things in the translation automatically. In memoQ, the automatic checks are called quality assurance checks.

A QA settings resource tells memoQ what to check and how. For example, you can choose to check terminology, consistency, length. Or, you can simply check the inline tags only.

To learn more about the various settings, see the topic about editing QA settings.

Do not confuse QA with LQA: memoQ also knows about Linguistic Quality Assurance. This is a way of adding human feedback to documents. The human reviewers can structure and formalize their feedback, and grade the translations if necessary. You use LQA settings - LQA models - to enter these and report about them.

You cannot edit the default QA settings. Either you need to make a copy of the default QA settings, or you need to create a new resource.

Belongs to a project: You choose QA settings for a project. To make your choice, open a project. In Project home, choose Settings. Click the QA settings icon. (This icon has an exclamation mark and a tick mark in it.) Check the check box of the QA settings you want to use.

Default QA settings: A new QA settings resource is set to the default checks and their default settings. You need to edit it if you need different settings.

How to get here

Open the Resource Console. Choose QA settings. Under the list, click Create new.

From a project: Open a project. In Project home, choose Settings. In the Settings pane, click the QA settings icon. (This icon has an exclamation mark and a tick mark in it.) Under the list, click Create/use new. This command creates the QA option set, and adds it to the project.

From an online project: Open an online project for management. In the memoQ online project window, choose Settings. In the Settings pane, click the QA settings icon. (This icon has an exclamation mark and a tick mark in it.) Under the list, click Create/use new. This command creates the QA option set, and adds it to the project.

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If My Computer is selected in Resource Console

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If a memoQ TMS is selected in Resource Console, even if you come from a local project

What can you do?

If you come from the Resource Console, and a memoQ TMS was selected at the top: You can choose to create the QA settings on your own computer; or to create it on the server.

To make your choice: Click the My computer or the Online radio button.

You cannot choose another server here. To create the resource on another server: Close this window. Choose the other server at the top of the Resource Console. Click Create new again.

  1. Type a name in the Name box. The name must be unique on your computer - or on the server where you're creating it.
  2. Describe the purpose of the QA settings in the Description box. Never leave it empty: think of the other people who may need to use this QA settings resource, too.

When you finish

To create the QA settings: Click OK.

To return to the Resource Console or to Project home, and not create a QA settings resource: Click Cancel.