Overwrite Confirmed Segments
Overwrite Confirmed Segments (formerly called Auto-Propagation) is a feature of LILT Translate that saves linguists time by automatically completing and confirming repeated segments. Overwriting confirmed segments affects only the current document.
Enabling the functionality
By default, forward and backward overwriting are both enabled. You can enable or disable overwriting confirmed segments through the Settings tab by selecting/deselecting the following options:
Forward overwrite confirmed segments: Propagates changes to all segments going forward, e.g. all later repetitions. When a segment is confirmed, Forward overwrite copies the confirmed target text to all forward repetitions (including previously confirmed segments) in the document and marks those segments as confirmed.
Backward overwrite confirmed segments: Propagates changes to all segments going backward, e.g. all previous repetitions. When a segment is confirmed, Backward overwrite copies the confirmed target text to all backward repetitions (including previously confirmed segments) in the document and marks those segments as confirmed.
Overwrite confirmed segments settings
Use cases for Forward and Backward Overwriting
Forward and Backward Overwriting are both enabled by default. This is a useful way to make sure translations are consistent across a document, because if you make a change to a segment, all segments with matching source text will update their target text to match.
If you want to ensure you do not overwrite content in confirmed segments, turn off both Forward and Backward Overwriting.
Enabling only Forward overwrite confirmed segments is a good way to speed up translation (by automatically populating segments you haven't reached yet), while making sure to not overwrite content in matching segments you have already processed.
It is not common to only enable Backward overwrite confirmed segments.
Note that in Review or Secondary Review mode, with Forward or Backward overwrite confirmed segments enabled, changes to accepted segments will overwrite segments that are not part of the review sample.