Batch changing the reliability score - or other ways to influence hit-order

[Ben Beech]

Hi Ryan,

Thank you for your ongoing work on Felix. I have been enjoying the new auto glossary entry function. 

I have also been looking for a way to influence the preferred order of memory hits. We use a large number of memories and some are more reliable than others. I'd like some to have priority over others even if their match value is lower. 

In an old post on this forum, I saw you mention batch changing the reliability score from the Memory Manager. Would that do it?

I've had a good poke around, and I cannot find a way to do batch setting of reliability. Perhaps that was a feature of previous releases that has been scrapped? Could it be restored in a future release?

Also, are their possibilities for to creating other ways to set override priority on memory hits? Such as by TM creation date, or even a user-determined element in the TM file name? Perhaps the Memory manager could have high- and low-priority windows that the memories could be moved between.

Finally, I have three other feature ideas that might make the Memory Manager slightly more efficient to operate:

 1) Could the memory manager have a function to load all memory files within a folder (and maybe even a subfolder or sub-sub folder if desired) so that people who group their TM files in folders can load them up more efficiently 

2) Could the "Load File  Add New  Remove" buttons be duplicated at the top of the list as well as the bottom, so that users who use large numbers of TM files don't always have to scroll down to the bottom to hit Remove All when changing to a different set of files, and 

3) Could there be a "Send to top" button beside each file, so that if you decide to change the file you want to write into, you can send it to the top with one click? 

 Thank you for listening.

Regards,

Ben Beech

[Ginstrom IT Solutions]

> On Behalf Of Ben Beech

> In an old post on this forum, I saw you mention batch changing the reliability
> score from the Memory Manager. Would that do it?

Yes, if the scores are the same, the one with higher reliability shows up first in the matches.

>
> I've had a good poke around, and I cannot find a way to do batch setting
> of reliability. Perhaps that was a feature of previous releases that has
> been scrapped? Could it be restored in a future release?

You could do this from the Find/Replace window.

1. Go to the Find window (CTRL + F), and click Replace.
2. Set "From" to "reliability:" and "To" to the reliability score.
3. Click "Replace All"

Obviously, you should only have the TM you want to change open at the time. If you have more than one TM open, you could also narrow your results to that TM by searching on "mem:<name>", and then doing the replacement.

> Also, are their possibilities for to creating other ways to set override
> priority on memory hits? Such as by TM creation date, or even a
> user-determined element in the TM file name? Perhaps the Memory manager
> could have high- and low-priority windows that the memories could be moved
> between.

Unfortunately, the match order is hard-coded now, but I do plan to make this more flexible in a future release. The ordering now is as follows:

Highest score
No placement
Reliability
Validated
Reference count
Last modified (most recently first)

> 1) Could the memory manager have a function to load all memory files within
> a folder (and maybe even a subfolder or sub-sub folder if desired) so that
> people who group their TM files in folders can load them up more efficiently

This is possible, but would it save much time over going to that folder, clicking "Select All" (CTRL + A), and clicking "Open"?

> 2) Could the "Load File Add New Remove" buttons be duplicated at the top
> of the list as well as the bottom, so that users who use large numbers of
> TM files don't always have to scroll down to the bottom to hit Remove All
> when changing to a different set of files, and

Very good idea, thanks.

> 3) Could there be a "Send to top" button beside each file, so that if you
> decide to change the file you want to write into, you can send it to the
> top with one click?

Also a good idea.


Regards,
Ryan

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[Ben Beech]

Hi Ryan,

Thank you for your response. I will work on my Find and Replace skills!

Regarding your question about my idea for a function to load all files in a folder: 

ME:   1) Could the memory manager have a function to load all memory files within a folder (and maybe even a subfolder or sub-sub folder if desired) so that people who group their TM files in folders can load them up more efficiently 

RYAN: This is possible, but would it save much time over going to that folder, clicking "Select All" (CTRL + A), and clicking "Open"?

In the case of a single folder, I agree that it doesn't make much difference. This is what I currently do. But there are two problems that I bump up against:

<impassioned plea>

1) We have different client's TMs organized into separate folders, and I find that when I want to make reference to other client's TMs, or to some General Reference TMs which are in a separate folder, I have to repeat the "Load Memory" operation several times, navigating up out of the previous folder each time, and into the next folder.

 Being able to hold down shift and select just the container folders for the TMs I want would allow me to "tool up" in a single operation. And if I need to "retool" several times a day it would make quite a difference.

2) Even in a single client folder, we have a lot of TMs - and I don't necessarily want to hook all of them up for every job. If I just hit Ctrl + A I'll get too many hits from the old TMs, or less-reliable-but-still-useful ones and have to keep sifting through results to find a hit from the TM I want. 

Having this folder-function would allow me to manage TMs by grouping client's TMs into subfolders by whatever category (age, topic, reliability, translator, etc.). Then, having entered the client folder, I could just hold down shift and select the subfolders that contain the TMs I want, allowing me to streamline my TM mix easily when tooling up.

To that end, it might also be good have a check box or something to select whether to include TMs in subfolders also or not. 

 

I realise that not everyone would be organizing TMs the same way as I do, but most people would probably be using some sort of folder structure, and might therefore get some measure of benefit from a function like this I think. 

</impassioned plea>

Thanks again for listening, and I'll try that find and replace function for the reliability!

Cheers

Ben

[Ginstrom IT Solutions]

> On Behalf Of Ben Beech

> <impassioned plea>

Thanks for the additional explanation. I see now that you'd like to be able to select multiple folders, for which a "browse" option would be handy. I will definitely think about a way to support this.

[Ben Beech]

Thanks for hearing me out on that Ryan!

 One of the best things about Felix is the "as many as you like" approach to TMs - I think it allows loads of flexibility with TM management that can actually make things very simple.

Regards,

Ben