Custom Placeholders are designed for cases when the source texts contain some less common placeholders that are not highlighted in the source strings (in the Editor) by default.
Custom Placeholders could be configured in the Organization Settings > Custom placeholders page.
To configure your custom placeholder expression, you can use the elements from the table below. For example, if you’d like to highlight this [[Placeholder1]]
, your expression might look like this: start, then "[[", range "a,z,A,Z,0,9", limit "1,20", then "]]", end
To simplify things a bit, let’s deconstruct the expression above.
start
– indicates the beginning of the expression.
then "[["
– means that your custom placeholder starts with two opening square brackets.
range "a,z,A,Z,0,9"
– means that your custom placeholder might include characters ranging a-z and/or A-Z and/or 0-9.
limit "1,20"
– means that the length of the placeholder is from 1 to 20 characters.
then "]]"
– means that your custom placeholder ends with two closing square brackets.
end
– indicates the end of the expression.
Element | Aliases | Description | Usage examples |
---|---|---|---|
start | startofline, start of line | mark expression with ^ | |
end | end of, endofline | mark the expression with $ | |
then | find | add a string to the expression | then "abc" |
maybe | define a string that might appear once or not | maybe "abc" | |
word | match any word that contains characters from a-z, A-Z, 0-9, including the _ (underscore) character | ||
anything | accept any string | ||
range | add a range to the expression | range "a,z,0,9" | |
something | accept any non-empty string | ||
anythingbut | anything but | accept any string but the specified character | anythingbut "abc" |
anyof | any, any of | any of the listed characters | anyof "abc" |
somethingbut | something but | anything non-empty except for these characters | somethingbut "abc" |
limit | add character limit | limit "1,3" | |
linebreak | line break, br | match \r \n (might be used only with other elements) | |
tab | match tabs \t (might be used only with other elements) |
As soon as the custom placeholders are assigned to the project, project members will see them highlighted in the Editor during the translation process.