Filter segments in the CAT editor

Overview

In the CAT editor, you can filter segments by various criteria to focus on the work that matters and move through your files faster.

Available filters

Segment status / Key

This filter lets you locate segments at a specific workflow stage (translation, post-editing, all) or translation stage (no translation, confirmed, unconfirmed), and exclude locked segments if needed.

Segment revisions

This filter tab helps you find segments by revision dates, workflow stages, and specific authors.

Source text

This tab lets you filter segments by their content and include or exclude repetitions. You can also use this filter to show or hide segments that contain only numbers. In this case you see segments with at least one number and one text character.

Comments

Use the With comments checkbox to find segments that have comments.

Errors

This filter helps you find segments with detected or ignored errors.

📌 Segments with critical errors cannot be confirmed before the errors are corrected. If you apply the Confirmed filter in parallel, segments with critical errors are not displayed.

The Ignored option is only available for freelancers.

Source of last input

This option lets you filter segments by their translation source (machine translation, updated from file, manual input) and by the match percentage for Translation Memory (TM) matches. Learn more about TM matches.

📌 The source used in this filter is the most recent insertion. For example, if a fuzzy match from the Translation Memory was inserted into a segment and then replaced by a 102% match, the segment is filtered as a 102% match.

Files with keys related to software localization projects have a filter for searching source segments by Segment ID.

Adding and removing filters

1. Click Add filters in the search bar of the toolbar

2. Select a combination of search parameters from the drop-down menu

3. Combine different filtering parameters and, if needed, search and replace text in the filtered segments

Filtering results update in real time as you configure filters. To reset filters and display all segments, close the segment-filtering window.

You now have a filtered view that isolates the exact segments you want to work on.