QM Check with Regular Expressions

Apart from the predefined QM criteria, you can design your own QM criteria with the help of regular expressions.

This provides various benefits:
The QM criteria can be customized in order to take special cases into consideration.
The QM criteria can be defined on a language-specific basis.

Creation and Overview of Regex-Based Criteria

To create your own regex QM criteria, open the system settings, go to General > Quality Management v7.0 and click Configure Regex-based Criteria.

The following options are available:

Option	Description
Add	Adds a new rule.
Delete	Deletes the selected rule.
Load Rules from QM Template	Enables the loading of rules contained in a QM template. During the import, it is checked whether identical rules or rules with identical names already exist You can decide whether to update rules with identical names or create separate rules.
OK	Saves all changes and closes the window.
Cancel	Discards all changes and closes the window.
Help	Opens the context-sensitive Across help topic.

RegEx Rules

The regex-based QM criteria are defined in the form of rules. A regex rule consists of at least one regular expression and a condition that determines where matches are to be searched for and what is to be reported.

The following conditions are available:

Option	Example (excerpt)
Report if both source and target patterns match	To check URLs with a language-specific path (e.g. www.page.com/en), which is to be adapted in the target text
Report if source matches, but target has a different number of matches	For no-break spaces in connection with measurement units, for version numbers
Report if source matches, but target has fewer matches	For product names, company-specific IDs
Report if target matches but not the source	For wrongly inserted placeholders and hotkeys in software localization
Report if source matches but not the target	For placeholders and hotkeys that have been forgotten in software localization
Report if source matches	To check paragraphs that contain certain IDs
Report if target matches	To check unwanted number or date formats

The name and error description of the rule will be displayed in crossDesk if there is a match for the criterion.

Example: No-break space in connection with measurement units

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A rule that checks whether no-break spaces have been set in connection with measurement units in the target text (as in the source text) could look as follows:

Option	Details
Condition	Report if source matches, but target has fewer matches
Error description	Missing no-break space between number and unit symbol
Source regex	(\d{1,3}[., ])*\d+[ ]?([mdchk]?[glmAWV][²³]?\b\|[€$£元%°]) Activate the Case-sensitive option
Target regex	(\d{1,3}[., ])*\d+[ ]([mdchk]?[glmAWV][²³]?\b\|[€$£元%°]) Activate the Case-sensitive option