A TM settings profile tells memoQ how to get matches from translation memory. This means two things:

Match thresholds. These are two numbers: One of them sets the minimum match rate of any match that memoQ shows. The other tells memoQ what counts as a good match. (You can pre-translate documents with good matches or better. That's where memoQ uses this second number.)

Penalties: A match is not always reliable. The match rate is supposed to tell how much you need to work on the translation you got. But it can actually be worse if the translation is bad or inadequate. For these cases, you use penalties - so that the match rate will be lower than memoQ originally computed.

To learn more about penalties, see the topic about editing TM settings.

You cannot edit the default TM settings. Either you need to make a copy of the default TM settings profile, or you need to create a new one.

Belongs to a project, not to a translation memory: You choose a TM settings profile for a project, not for a translation memory. If you choose a TM settings profile for a project, memoQ uses them for all translation memories in the project. Then again, in a different project, you can use different TM settings for the same translation memories.

Default TM settings: A new TM settings profile is set to the default match thresholds and penalties. You need to edit it if you need different settings.

How to get here

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

From a project: Open a project. In Project home, choose Settings. In the Settings pane, click the TM icon. [This icon is two jigsaw puzzle pieces, one orange, one blue.] Under the list, click Create/use new. This command creates the TM settings profile, 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 TM settings icon. [This icon is two jigsaw puzzle pieces, one orange, one blue.] Under the list, click Create/use new. This command creates the TM settings profile, and adds it to the project.

create-tmsettings

If My Computer is selected in Resource Console

create-tmsettings-online

If a memoQ server is selected in Resource Console or at the top of the memoQ window - even if you come from a local project

What can you do?

Choose a place for the TM settings profile (Resource Console only)

Give a name and a description to the TM settings profile

When you finish

To create the TM settings profile: Click OK.

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