Export files for offline translation

Typically, text strings are sent out for bulk translation. You can export translation files and modify them using a text editor or a spreadsheet program like Microsoft Excel.

Application Server has the following export options for localization:

• All Internationalized strings

• Internationalized strings from selected objects (one or more objects must be selected before this option can be used)

• Selected Industrial Graphics (select the graphics you want to localize before you use this option)

• All Industrial Graphics

• Alarm Fields from selected areas (select the area objects you want to localize before you use this option)

• All Alarm Fields

  

If you make changes to your application after you export your dictionary files, you must export the dictionary file again. For more information, see Export text to an existing dictionary file.

You can only export the text strings for one language at a time. You cannot export Industrial Graphics text strings for the default language.

In order to localize a string attribute, it must be of type InternationalizedString. Not all attributes are this type. For a list of InternationalizedString attributes, see InternationalizedString attributes .

Each graphic in a Galaxy is only exported one time, no matter how many times it is referenced.

When you export the text, you specify a folder for the dictionary files. Creating a new folder to export phrases for each language makes it easy to manage dictionary files. For example, ...\Galaxy1\My German Files\.

Also, alarm message files are exported as tab-delimited text files and have the following convention: Galaxy_<GalaxyName>_<LanguageID>.txt. If you will be exporting language data for different objects at different times, use separate target directories to prevent subsequent exports from overwriting the first export.

When you export the dictionary for an application, you can copy and paste the text file into Microsoft Excel.