resources/segments/search

resources/segments/search

Permits to find segments by a wide range of criteria.

URL

(POST) /api/resources/segments/search

PARAMETERS

The message body contains a JSON object with these properties.

scope

The scope object. It delimits the total range of segments and related resources that can be queried.

Example:

"scope": { "type": "Project", "projectid": 1234 }

Mandatory, object

query

The filters to apply. See chapters further down.

Get segments in scope with a word in English and where the German translation has green status. Further, we want the segment context to be a "Heading" (we suppose we translate a Microsoft Word document).

"query": { "ctx": { "value": "Heading", "mode": "Prefix" }, "languages": [ { "locs": ["en"], "text": { "value": "ministry" } }, { "locs": ["de"], "status": { 1 } } ] }

Optional, object?

layout

Optional layout object. The layout presets the data and the languages you want to retrieve with the results.

If not specified or null the layout is preset - see autoLayout property below.

Optional, object?

autoLayout

If layout is not set, the system creates one depending on the values of this property:

  • "Languages" or null/missing: System returns columns for all languages in the languages node

  • "Default": System fetches a default layout for the scope and the user.

  • Null or missing: The layout is preset for the languages you specify in query.languages, see below:



This example returns results in 3 languages. Not setting the layoutMode requires explicitly specifying languages:

{ "scope": { "type": "Job", "jobid": 16682, "jobcdyt": true }, "query": { "languages": [ { "locs": ["en"] }, { "locs": ["de"] }, { "locs": ["fr"] } ] } }

Alternatively, this can be written more compactly:

... "query": { "languages": [ { "locs": ["en", "de", "fr"] } ] } ...

Optional,

string







usecache

Optional boolean, default is true.

Set to false only if there is a possibility that user access rights have changed. False enforces the system to recalculate all access rights for the specified scope.



Optional, bool?









Smart navigation - See explanation below



previousSkip

This is the skip value of the currently shown editor page (i.e. before making this call).

Use previousSkip and previousTotal when implementing translation editor interfaces. Here the user may apply a filter and navigate between pages. Consider this scenario: User sets a filter to show green status segments only. User is on page 2. Now user, sets some segments into red status and saves changes. Finally, user clicks button to move to next page (3). With smart navigation, the system will adjust the skip value to maintain it on page 2 (since page 2 now shows new segments).

Optional, int?

previousTotal

This is the grand total amount of segments was obtained when showing the current editor page (i.e. the total known by editor before making this call)

Optional, int?







includeRights

Default: false

  • true: Includes full scope/rights details with the results (result.rights)

  • false: Do not include rights with results. Instead the result.rights node will be null.

Use false when possible to reduce http response size.

Optional, bool

includeLayout

Default: false

  • true: Always include the layout for the results.

  • false: Include the layout with the result only if the API method was called without a layout

Use false when possible to reduce http response size.

Optional,

bool

data

User custom data. You can put your own data here. It will be persisted when saving/loading queries for later reuse: resources/segments/search/profiles

Optional,

string



Paginate and sort

To paginate results, use these properties:



query.skip

Optional, default is 0. Used for pagination. Specifies the number of segments in the result set to skip.

Optional, int

query.take

Optional, default is 20. Specifies the number of segments to retrieve.

Setting take to 0 maybe useful if you only want to obtain the grand total for the filter (without fetching segments).

Optional, int

query.sort

Optional. Default is "Natural". Specifies how results shall be sorted:

  • Natural: The recommended value. It applies the Document order with jobs and projects and by date of creation with other scopes.

  • SegmentId: Sort by creation date with most recent on top. The segment id is an auto-incremented unique number. This is the sort option that performs best.

  • Document: Sort by resource, then document, then sequential segment number. Use with job and project scopes only.

  • Text: Sort alphabetically in the first language specified in the languages property.

  • TextLength: Sort by text length, shortest on top, in the first language specified in the languages property.

  • Comments: Sort by comments. This is a special mode that requires the comments property be set. Used when you are basically interested in comments.

Example:

"sort": "Natural"

Optional, string

query.sortdir

Optional sort direction. Options are:

  • null / missing: Applies the most natural or logical direction for the selected sort.

  • asc: Ascending

  • desc: Descending

Example:

"sortdir": "desc"

Default sort orders:

  • Natural: For job/project scopes uses "asc" (in the order of the document) otherwise "desc" (most recent segments on top)

  • SegmentId: "desc", most recent segments on top

  • Text: "asc", alphabetical order

  • TextLength: "asc", shortest texts on top



Optional, string?

query.highlight

Optional, default is null. 

Instruction whether to highlight texts in the results that actually matched a filter in that language.

Useful with terminology searches where you want to know which of the term variants in a concept actually matched the filter.

Without highlighting, the system will return the concept but does not tell you which of the 3 variants is matching.

Values are:

  • null or "None": No highlighting

  • "FlagTextHits": Add "_ismatch": true with the resulting text or text variant.

Optional, string?



Go to instructions

Use the goto parameter for advanced navigation:

  • Jump to a specific segment id. Query adjusts "skip" accordingly.

  • Jump to the next or previous locked text

Instructions:

  • Make sure to set the take parameter to specify your pagination size

  • Check the gotoSuccess property in the method result. If it is false then the navigation did not find anything.

  • The result.skip and result.take properties are the resulting pagination details.

  • This feature works only with certain sort values, check applicable notes below.



goto

Navigate to segment by segment ID

Specify mode and segment ID as shown below.

"goto": { "mode": "SegmentId", "sid": 2991 }

Optional, object



Navigate to segment by sequential ID

Segments of documents are assigned a sequential ID such as 1, 2, 3-1, 3-2 etc.

The first part is the bee segment ID (bsid), the second part is the sub segment ID (bssid).

"goto": { "mode": "BeeSegmentId", "bsid": 10, "bssid": 0 }

The bssid is optional. 0 denotes the first sub segment, 1 the second. In the user interfaces we display this number incremented by 1 (after all "3-1" looks better than "3-0"

NOTE: This mode is available only with Job or Project scopes.







Navigate to locked text

Navigates to the next (next: true) or previous (next:false) locked text relative to the specified segment ID.

"goto": { "mode": "LockedYes", "sid": 88721, "locale": "fr", "next": "true" }

The locale parameter is mandatory.







Navigate to non-locked text

Navigates to the very first unlocked segment. Here we drop the sid value and thus navigate from the start.

"goto": { "mode": "LockedNo", "locale": "fr", "next": "true" }

The locale parameter is mandatory.









Filter resources and documents

The scope generally delimits the searchable resources, documents or segments. If the scope is a project then you will get the documents in this project.The following properties permit to drill down on the scope resources, documents or segments.



query.documentSets

Optional list of resources to search. A resource can be a translation memory, a term base or a project memory. See resources/documentsets to find resources and their IDs (dsid).

Example:

"documentSets": [ 1292, 19923 ]

Optional, int[]

query.documents

Optional list of documents to search. With projects, a document is, well, a document being translated. With resources it groups segments added to a resource together. See resources/documents/list (post) to find documents and their IDs (did)

Each element is an object with these properties:

  • did: The document ID

  • minbsid, maxbsid: Optional (int?). Defines an optional range of the sequential segment ID in the document. The first segment in a document has number 1.

  • minbssid, maxbssid: Optional (int?). Defines an optional range of the sub-segment numbers starting at 0. If a segment is split into sub-segments, all the sub-segments share the same bsid but have a different bssid.

Example:

"documents": [ { "did": 77362 } ]



Optional, object[]

query.segments

Optional list of segments to search. The segment ID is the sid property included with search results.

Example:

"segments": [ 992821, 992822 ]



Optional, int[]

query.segmentsFT

Optional string with a list of segment IDs or ID ranges. Examples:

  • 10000, 10002  10003  : Search these 3 segments

  • 100 : 200   300:301  : Search segments 100 to 200 and 300 to 301, inclusive

  • 100:  : Search all segments 100, 101, etc.

  • :100 : Search segments up to 100

Optional, string?

query.segmentNumbers

Optional list of segment numbers to search. The segment number is the bsid property included with search results. It is available with projects and jobs only and is an incremental number starting at 1 (per each document).

The number may contain a subsegment ID:  2-1, 2-2, 2-3  (if segment 2 is split into 3 subsegments).

Optional, string[]

query.segmentNumbersFT

Optional string with a list of segment IDs or ID ranges. Examples:

  • 10, 11  12  : Search these 3 segments

  • 10-3  : Search the 3rd subsegment of segment 10

  • 100 : 200   300:301  : Search segments 100 to 200 and 300 to 301, inclusive

  • 100:  : Search all segments 100, 101, etc.

  • :100 : Search segments up to 100

Optional, string?

query.resourceTypes

Optional filter on the type of resource to search:. Options are:

  • 1: To search documents of a project (aka project memories)

  • 2: To search translation memories

  • 3: To search terminology databases

Example to search resources only while excluding any documents:

"resourceTypes": [ 2, 3 ]

Optional, int[]



Filter segment level properties

The scope generally delimits the searchable resources, documents or segments. If the scope is a project then you will get the documents in this project. The following properties permit to drill down on the scope resources, documents or segments.



query.ctx

To filter by the context string of a segment. The context may be the style (such as Heading 1 in a Microsoft Word document) or a software string ID.

This element is an object with the following properties:

Optional, object

query.ctx.value

The string to search. The search is case-insensitive.

Mandatory, string

query.ctx.mode

The search mode, any of these options. If missing then uses the "Prefix" mode.

See String filter (Filter) for details.

Optional, string

query.ctxs

To search segments by one or more context strings. The context may be the style (such as Heading 1 in a Microsoft Word document) or a software string ID.

The search is case-insensitive but otherwise an exact search (not a prefix search).

Optional, string[]







query.constraints

Optional. To find segments that have or have no size constraint (max or min length in translations).

Missing or null: No filter. True: Segment must have a size constraint. False: Segment must not have a size constraint.

Optional, bool







query.cfs

Optional filter for segment-level custom fields.

A array of custom field filters. Each element filters one custom field value:

  • id: The numeric ID of the custom field. Custom fields have IDs starting at 1. Mandatory.

  • val: The value to find. Mandatory

  • mode: The search mode. Uses "Plain" if not specified. Optional (See text.mode)
    Note: The search is an exact search for pick list custom fields, you can choose the mode for other field types.

  • phrase: Optional phrase match flag. Default is false.

Example to find values prefixed with "Department" in custom text field #1:

"cfs": [ { "id": 1, "val": "Department.*", mode: "Regex" }, { "id": 5, "val": "Priority", "phrase": true } ]

When specifying multiple items, all of them must match.

Optional, object[]

query.lbls

Optional filter for segment-level labels.

A array of label filters. Each element filters one label value:

  • id: The numeric ID of the label. Labels have IDs starting at 1. Mandatory.

  • val:

    • The numeric label option to find. Use 0 for the first value option, 1 for the second, etc.

    • Use null to find segments where the label is not set. With labels configured to be always visible, a null-query is equivalent to finding the default value of the label. 

Example:

"lbls": [ { "id": 1, "val": 0 }, { "id": 23, "val": 3 }, { "id": 10, "val": null } ]

When specifying multiple items, all of them must match.

Optional, object[]

query.tbx

Optional filter on term-level TBX fields. An array of TBX field and value pairs. Each array element has these properties:

  • id: TheTBX field ID. Mandatory.

  • val: The value to find.

  • mode: Optional search mode. Any of "Plain" (default, prefix search), "Wildcards", "Regex" or "Empty"

  • phrase: Optional phrase match flag. Default is false.

Example:

"tbx": [ { "id": "context", "val": "Mechanical" }, { "id": "example", "val": "stru*e", "mode": "Wildcards" } ]

Optional, object[]

 

Components

These are filters specifically useful for Flex / Strings DB queries. With Flex it is possible to group strings by “components”. A component can be a code file, a screen etc.

component

To query by the optional component field using exact, wildcard, regex, etc.

See String filter (Filter) for details.

{ "component": { "value": "label*", "mode": "Wildcards" } }

object?, Optional

components

Filter by a list of component values. Find all segments that have a component matching any list item exactly. 

string[]?, Optional

 

Branches

Used with Flex containers only. Segments are uniquely identified by their key (aka context) value and their branch. The parameters below allow you to filter segments by their branch.

branch

To query by the optional branch field using exact, wildcard, regex, etc.

See String filter (Filter) for details.

{ "branch": { "value": "production-*", "mode": "Wildcards" } }

object?, Optional

branches

Filter by a list of branch values. Find all segments that have a branch matching any list item exactly. 

string[]?, Optional

Job assignments

Segments can explicitly be assigned to jobs. With such workflows, you can then filter segments by jobs (see Create New Jobs). To filter segments by their assignment, see below.

query.jobIds

A list of Standard job IDs.

  • Empty list: Find segments that are assigned, whatever the job ID.

  • Non empty list: Find segments that are assigned to any of the job IDs in the list (boolean OR).

  • null: No filter is applied.

{ "jobIds": [1000, 1002] }

Optional, int[]?

query.jobTextStatus

Optional status filter. The status is not a job status but a text status: Text Status (Enumeration)

The system retains segments assigned to the jobs (see criteria above) and with the job's text status at the expected value. 

Optional, int?

query.jobNot

Optional boolean, default is false.

  • true: Inverts the filter. Use to search for segments that are NOT assigned to any or specific jobs.

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