Translating Your Catalog
This step allows you to translate all the products, teasers, guided selling processes, collections and labels in your collection, all the rich media text information inside these objects as well as all business values in your workspace.
Translate the objects
Warning:
This section details how to use the CSV Export / Import to manage translations.
This approach chose only be chosen when dealing with a limited number of records / lines: no more than a hundred.
For larger volumes, please prefer the Excel import / export feature for performance reasons. In order to translate a set of products, proceed as follows:
How To:
[Via the “Explore structure” explorer]
- Open the catalog or a collection by selecting its name or description or
[Via the “Explore Labels” explorer]
- Open a label by selecting its name or description
[In the Grid menu] - Select the “Source” language in the corresponding dropdown list. - Select the “Destination” language in the corresponding dropdown list.
[In the translations table]
- Enter the destination translation for all to be translated elements in the “To” column
[In the menu toolbar]
- Save
In order to translate an individual product:
How To:
[In the product table]
- Select the product(s) to be opened
[Via the menu toolbar]
- Execute the Add to selection function
[Via the “Explore Selection” explorer]
- Open the product by clicking on its name or description. [In the Grid menu]
- Select the “Source” language in the corresponding dropdown list.
- Select the “Destination” language in the corresponding dropdown list.
[In the translations table] - Enter the destination translation for all to be translated elements in the “To” column
[In the menu toolbar]
- Save
How to export/import translations
Once you have created your collection and given initial descriptions (in your own language), you can very easily export those and re-import translated descriptions using a spreadsheet program. In order to export the translations for a collection, proceed as follows:
How To:
[In the menu toolbar]
- Execute the “Source” function after having selected the original language.
- Execute the “Destination” function after having selected the destination language
[Via the menu toolbar] - Click on the “export” button. [In the “popup”]
- Choose a CSV delimiter. Default value = “;”
- Choose a list delimiter. Default value = “~”
- Indicate the decimal separator to be used in the export file.
- Indicate the encoding to be used by the export file.
- Click “ok”.
- The export process starts. The browser will allow you to open or save the CSV file to a certain location.
In order to import translated descriptions again, proceed as follows:
How To:
[In the menu toolbar]
- Execute the "Source" function after having selected the original language.
- Execute the "Destination" function after having selected the destination language
[Via the menu toolbar]
- Click on the "import" button.
[In the "popup"]
- Indicate the CSV delimiter used in the import file. Default value = ";"
- Indicate the list delimiter used in the import file. Default value = "~"
- Indicate the decimal separator used in the import file.
- Indicate the import file encoding format.
- Choose the CSV file to be imported.
- Click "ok".
- The import process starts. This is an asynchronous process and you can continue to model. The Designer will inform you automatically when the process is completed.
[Via the menu toolbar]
- Save.
Tip: The import file should have the following heading:
Object Name;Parent Object Name;Object Type;CPE Object; SourceLanguage (SourceCountry);DestinationLanguage (DestinationCountry)
Warning: Please ensure that your files are encoded in UTF-8 format.
Managing languages
In order to add, delete or update the languages which can be used in the Designer, you can edit the internationalSettings.xml file located in the “conf” folder in the Designer installation folder.
A section defining an XML file looks as follows:
<internationalSettings name='englishSettings'>
<language code='en'/>
<country code='US'/>
<currency code='USD' format='$#,###.###'/>
<longDate format='yyyy MMM dd EEE HH:mm'/>
<shortDate format='yyyy MMM dd'/>
<time format='HH#mm#ss.s'/>
<number format=''/>
<integer format=''/>
</internationalSettings>
In order to delete a language, simply update or delete the corresponding “internationalSettings” section. In order to add a language, you can simply add an “internationalSettings” section respecting the same format.
Do Not: Remove languages which have been used in your model.
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