Again… it’s doable. I’d would add a “group or type” XML Element Tag - whichever term seems semantically correct. I’d go even further to make the group cell in the table a dropdown so a user could select from predefined groups (whatever we come up with) with the option to type in thier own. That way they can quickly select a group for the variable without always having to type it in. It’s also easy to quickly change the group without typing.
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Ok, that sounds great! Just keep it simple, it’s only to group things in the sorting order so that they can be easily found and not confused with other groups/types/tags. I don’t really want to use the term ‘groups’, since we have them inside the pattern.
If you pre-populate a list of them, then those will need to be translated into different languages, won’t they?
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Yes. That’s not a problem… other than actually translating the text. Of course any user defined items will not be translated as they would not be included in the ts file(s).
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Yes, that is understood. I think MG2024 will be very happy if the general items get translated since he teaches both M&S and Hofenbitzer in both English & German… Poor him 
… At least those translations should help him a lot.
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The solution with the dropdown sounds amazing to me. Maybe not spending a lot of effort in the names of the dropdown list. I guess is enough to call them A, B, C … Or just 1,2,3 … Otherwise people start to ask for many names as stand up, collar, chest front pocket etc. etc. …
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