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ChiP
Community Member
2 years ago

RISE Texte labels import not working ?

Hello, I tried to import an xlf translation for the text label in RISE but it is not working. Even when I try again by exporting and then importing (no modification) an existing personalised text l...
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MichaelMadsen
Community Member
9 months ago

I had the same issue as Chi Phan. And did some investigation.

what eventually helped me, was translating my labels using the online editor: https://xliff.brightec.co.uk

But i think its down to formating of the label .xlf files.

 

Heres something to try out, if you want to dive deeper into the issue

1. Go to your project settings > labels
2. Using the drop down set your labels to "English", with the built in label set
3. Now click the button "Create new".
4. In this new label set, lets rename "START COURSE" to "BEGIN COURSE"
5. Now if you download this label set (click the dropdown, and hover over your button set, you get an icon to download the label set).
6. If you open this file in notepad and search for "courseStart", you will see the line:

<trans-unit id="courseStart"><source>BEGIN COURSE</source>

So it looks like it did in fact chance the text to "BEGIN COURSE", but if you load this label set from this file, it changes back to "START COURSE".

Now if you edit your file in notepad again and modify the above line to:

<trans-unit id="courseStart"><source>BEGIN COURSE</source><target>BEGIN COURSE</target>

what i did was just to add: <target>BEGIN COURSE</target>

Now save this file and load this file instead.. now it works!

So i suspect this to be a bug. And hope for it to be fixed.

 

Hope this helps anyone stumpling upon this post! :)

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StevenBenassi
Staff
9 months ago

Hi Michael!

Happy to share some insight on this!

What you've encountered is the expected behavior for XLIFF files. If a user exports a label set to XLIFF, the XLIFF file will contain several <source id="1">english string</source> entries. Only when the file is translated, do you end up with a corresponding <target id="1">translated string</target> entry. That target entry is essential for the import to work and if it is not present, the import will not succeed.

The workaround you've shared functions because it creates the target entry that would be added as part of the translation process. Please let me know if you have any more questions!

  • MichaelMadsen's avatar
    MichaelMadsen
    Community Member
    9 months ago

    Hi Steven

    Thanks for the reply. Nice to know what i found was expected behaviour.

    I still find it strange however, if i translate my labels using the built in editor, and i download this label set, and reimport it, that it reverts back to default. ( Because of the missing <target> tags in the .xlf file, i would suspect that the export created these tags, but it dosen't. )

    So i can't translate one probject and export this, to use in another project. But maybe i'm missing something.

    Anyways, i'm happy i found a solution. :)

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