Identifying Place Holders
When using placeholders (&n), precede the placeholder with a noun that identifies what it is. Translators need to know, among other things, the gender of nouns to effectively translate them. Consider this example:
The &1 of test &2, branch &3, effective &4 through &5, has been approved.
We know what &2 and &3 are, because they are identified by the nouns test and branch. However, we do not know what &1 is. We can assume that &4 and &5 are dates, but that is only an assumption from the context of the sentence, and it could be wrong.
In this example, all placeholders are effectively identified:
The specified month &2 and year &3 have not been defined in the workday calendar file (F0007) for Branch/Plant &1.