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XTM Cloud 13.8

Configuring custom variables in a new template

If you want to configure custom variable rules and you do not find an already existing template which is applicable to the same customer and/or file type, you need to create a template first.

Tip

This module requires some prior knowledge of Regular Expressions ("regex").

You can use custom variables to select a specific sequence of characters using regular expressions. This string can be converted into an inline tag to protect it during translation. In XTM Workbench, it serves as a placeholder that can be moved by Linguists within the target segment. Regular expressions are extremely powerful when it comes to defining a sequence of characters, including special characters. XTM Cloud uses Java Regular Expressions.

You can configure custom variables in a new template at:

Note

It is not possible to add a custom template at Global level.

You can only add custom variable configurations in the existing global template.