How to add new language to existing Lingo Project?
How to add new language to existing Lingo Project?
Is it possible to add a new language to an existing Lingo 10 project?
Re: How to add new language to existing Lingo Project?
Ignore the above question - it's done via the Project Properties Dialog. Just wasn't working for me because I had a bundle out for translation.
Re: How to add new language to existing Lingo Project?
Hi Wayne, so if you merge in the bundle you created to send out, will it take everything out of "out for translation" status and then you can add a language? I have multiple docs in my project; I NEVER have everything translated, different docs are always in different states, so I can NEVER add a language. Or is there a hack to get around this?
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Re: How to add new language to existing Lingo Project?
MunchMan, I have axactly the same issue. Have you found a workaround?
Re: How to add new language to existing Lingo Project?
I have pinged a contact I made at Madcap from a MadWorld conference and he's checking into it. As far as I know, it is "by design" that you can't add a language if anything is "out for translation". B/c my recently-created project (b/c I had to add a language!) had only three exported bundles so far, I merged them back in (no target values, just what I sent to the translator) and Surprise, now I could add a language. However, by doing that it revisited all my content and now every single topic I painstakingly verified and marked Complete was now flagged as something else, and many, many target segments are blank, even though NOTHING CHANGED and the terms are in my TM. Most terms appear when I click in the empty target field; some do not. Frustrating. I'll post any new info I get here.
Re: How to add new language to existing Lingo Project?
We encountered a similar issue when adding a new language through a script in MadCap Lingo. Specifically, we tried to add German (de-de), and unexpectedly, all translations for the other languages were lost.
After thorough investigation, we discovered that the order in which languages are specified in the script affects the outcome. Here's an example:
This resulted in the deletion of all translations:
This preserved the existing translations while adding the new language:
Interestingly, the second, successful order was achieved by manually adding the language in the MadCap Lingo interface. It seems the manual process adjusts the order in a way that avoids overwriting existing translations. By mimicking this order in the script, we were able to add new languages without issues.
Hope this insight is helpful!
After thorough investigation, we discovered that the order in which languages are specified in the script affects the outcome. Here's an example:
This resulted in the deletion of all translations:
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TargetLanguage="de-de;es-es;fr-fr;ja-jp;pt-pt;zh-cn"
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TargetLanguage="zh-cn;fr-fr;de-de;ja-jp;pt-pt;es-es"
Hope this insight is helpful!