MultiTerm Support
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TermLens automatically detects MultiTerm termbases (.sdltb files) attached to your active Trados project and displays their terms alongside your Supervertaler terms.
How It Works
When you open a project in Trados Studio that has MultiTerm termbases attached, TermLens reads those .sdltb files and loads all term pairs into its matching engine. MultiTerm terms appear as green chips in the TermLens panel, right next to the blue, pink, and yellow chips from your Supervertaler termbases.
There is nothing to configure. If your Trados project has MultiTerm termbases attached (via Project Settings > Language Pairs > Termbases), TermLens picks them up automatically.
Colour coding
Blue
Regular Supervertaler termbase match
Pink
Project termbase match (higher priority)
Yellow
Non-translatable term (source = target)
Green
MultiTerm termbase match (.sdltb)
Lavender
Abbreviation match (matched via source abbreviation)
Green chips behave like any other TermLens chip – click to insert, or use Alt+1 through Alt+9 to insert by number.
Read-Only
MultiTerm termbases are read-only in TermLens. You cannot add, edit, or delete terms in a MultiTerm termbase from the TermLens panel. To manage MultiTerm terms, use Trados Studio's built-in MultiTerm interface.
When you right-click a green MultiTerm chip, the Edit, Delete, and "Mark as Non-Translatable" options are not shown.
Auto-Refresh
When you add or edit terms in a MultiTerm termbase using Trados's native interface, TermLens detects the file change automatically. The next time you navigate to a different segment, the updated terms appear in the panel –no manual refresh needed.
MultiTerm Termbases in Settings
MultiTerm termbases appear at the bottom of the termbase list in the Supervertaler Settings dialog (gear icon > TermLens tab). Each one is labelled with [MultiTerm] and has a light green background to distinguish it from Supervertaler termbases.
Read
Controls whether this termbase's terms appear in TermLens. Uncheck to hide it.
Write
Always disabled –MultiTerm termbases are read-only in TermLens
Project
Always disabled –only Supervertaler termbases can be the project termbase
To add or remove MultiTerm termbases from your project, use Trados Studio's Project Settings > Language Pairs > Termbases.
Technical Details
TermLens reads .sdltb files directly using the JET 4.0 database driver built into Windows. This is the same driver that MultiTerm itself uses. If the JET driver is not available (uncommon on modern Windows), TermLens falls back to Trados's terminology provider API for per-segment lookups.
Because the access is read-only, there is no risk of data corruption. TermLens opens the .sdltb file in shared read mode, so MultiTerm and Trados can continue to use it simultaneously.
Troubleshooting
MultiTerm terms not appearing
Check your Trados project –verify that MultiTerm termbases are attached via Project Settings > Language Pairs > Termbases
Check the Read toggle –open Supervertaler Settings and make sure the MultiTerm termbase's Read checkbox is enabled
Check languages –the termbase's source and target languages must match the current project's language pair
Terms added in MultiTerm not updating
Navigate to a different segment –this triggers the auto-refresh check
If terms still do not appear, close and reopen the settings dialog to force a full termbase reload
See Also
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