[Feature] Sortable/filterable segment overview panel

[michaelbeijer]

Summary

Add a panel that lets users view, sort, and filter segments across all files in a Trados project. This fills a long-standing gap in Trados Studio – there is no built-in way to sort segments alphabetically or by length, and no App Store plugin offers this either.

Community demand:

• Sort source segments by alphabetic order (RWS Community)
• Editor function to alphabetically sort all source or target segments (RWS Ideas)

Proposed functionality

Sorting

• Source text (alphabetical A–Z / Z–A)
• Target text (alphabetical A–Z / Z–A)
• Source segment length (short → long / long → short)
• Target segment length (short → long / long → short)
• Segment status (e.g. unconfirmed first)

Filtering

• Text pattern (search in source and/or target)
• Minimum/maximum segment length
• Empty targets only
• By segment status (draft, translated, confirmed, etc.)

Cross-file support

• View segments from all files in the current project, not just the active document
• File name shown as a column

Navigation

• Clicking a row navigates to that segment in the Trados editor (opens the file if needed)

UI placement

Options to consider:

• New tab in the Supervertaler Assistant panel
• Standalone dockable ViewPart

Technical notes

• The Trados API exposes segment content via IStudioDocument and the project automation API
• A DataGridView with virtual mode could handle large projects efficiently
• Segment data would need to be loaded/cached on project open and refreshed on segment changes