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SusanneWrage-a6
Community Member
3 years ago

translation troubles - xliff, mxliff... and course duplication

Hello,  My question is a bit of a mixed bag, as this is my first Rise project that requires translation. Of course, it needs to be an "all out" effort with 8 languages.  - I saw too late that I ...
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ThiMalta
Community Member
6 months ago

My colleagues and I discovered recently the joy of playing with xliff files. We follow the steps as recommended before, for people who want to have only one xliff master per course:

  1. Put your courses in a MASTER folder
  2. Be sure each course has some code in the title that will not be translated, like 'PHYS101'
  3. export the xliff files and give it to translators
  4. Don't change anything in your master courses anymore
  5. Create duplicates of the courses
  6. Create a folder 'English' (assuming your original are in English)
  7. Move the duplicate in that folder
  8. you got your xliff files of translations, let's say in German
  9. Import your xliff files in your course: your master course are not in German. but your recognise which one is which because the code 'PHYS101' is still in the title!
  10. Now duplicate each course
  11. Create a folder 'German' somewhere
  12. Move the duplicates there

Your master will be always in the last language version.

You  should be very organised and methodic...