Translation Collections Overview

A Translation Collection is a customization object that stores translation strings and their translations. A single Translation Collection can hold many translation strings. A translation string is a key/value pair: they is an identifier, and the value is a source string. Each key has a value—a translation string—that you can translate into multiple languages. You can translate a string into any language NetSuite supports. For a list of languages supported by NetSuite, see Configuring Multiple Languages.

If you're a NetSuite developer or Administrator, you can create a collection of terms for translation. You can export the collection of terms to a translation vendor as an XLIFF file. After the translation vendor provides the translations, you can import the translation file, and use the translated terms in the NetSuite UI and in SuiteApps. This collection is called a Translation Collection.

You can now use SDF for Translation Collections to store translation strings and their translations in NetSuite. A Translation Collection is defined in a SuiteCloud project by translationcollection objects and XLIFF files. You can also use SDF to distribute translation strings from Translation Collections for translatable fields. For information about working with Translation Collections in SDF, see Translation Collections as XML Definitions.

In the UI, you manage Translation Collections on the Manage Translations page, which you can access through Customization > Translations > Manage Translations. For more information, see Manage Translations.

The following table lists the available translation management tasks and the location of information about each task:

General Notices