How to bulk approve parallel passages

Question

I’m helping a team who finished the NT back in PT7 and checked all the parallel passages at the time, but they are not checked off in the PP tool in PT9. I can’t see a way to tick them all in bulk, but only one by one for 2300 sets, or use a keyboard macro to do, say, 20 at a time. Any better ideas?

Answer 1

Hola @anon989803.

I don’t know of any option to allow massively parallel passages to be approved. But I have 2 things to mention about this:

1. You will not necessarily have to click on all 2300 sets, as in many cases approving one set will also approve a later set. For example, approving the set between [Matthew 17:19 and Mark 9:28] will also approve the set [Mark 9:28 and Matthew 17:19] below.

This will drastically reduce the sets to be marked as almost 3/4 of the NT Parallel Passages are between the 4 gospels. By just approving Matthew they will have a good percentage of the total.

2. Although not a massive way. It is slightly faster to use the keyboard: You can “click” on the first set and “press the space bar” to mark as complete, then press the “down arrow” and repeat the process.

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If you are already at the end of the project, to the point of having completed all the other tasks in the Project Plan, you may just need a conversation between the team, managers and others involved to consider it complete even if you don’t have the check marks (I’m willing to correct this thinking if someone has a better opinion on this).

I would also encourage those who are still in the earlier stages of translation to take advantage of the Parallel Passages tool. It has improved a lot over the years and one of its great advantages is that it allows us to see a history of changes to each passage, from the time of approval to the present day.

Saludos.