1. Globalization
  2. Manage Translations
  3. Exporting and Importing Translation Strings from the Strings Subtab

Exporting and Importing Translation Strings from the Strings Subtab

You can both import and export translation strings from the Strings Subtab. Source strings are in company languages and have a unique key and a value. In this case, value can represent a word, phrase or a sentence used in the NetSuite UI or manually created.

You can select multiple files, and drag and drop them into the Import Strings dialog when you're importing strings.

Note:

When you export strings from the Strings subtab, you export all translation strings in the account, including all parent and stand-alone strings.

To Export Strings from the Strings Subtab:

  1. Go to Customization > Translations > Manage Translations.

  2. Click the Export Strings button on the Strings subtab.

  3. The Export Strings dialogue shows a list of source languages.

    • To set a custom data type for the XLIFF file header, check the Customize XLIFF header datatype box and enter your value for the XLIFF 1.2 standard. The exported file uses this value as its data type, and adds an x-prefix in the header to show it's customized.

      See an example of the resulting customized XLIFF file header:

      Export collection datatype header example.

    • You can also export translation collection strings from a SuiteApp. Pick a SuiteApp in the SuiteApps for Export list and start the export.

  4. The following export options are available:

    • If you want to export source strings in the listed company languages without translations, don't change any settings.

    • To export source strings with translations, check the Include existing translations box. Then pick the languages you want in the All Languages window and click the arrow to move them to Selected Languages.

  5. Click Export Strings.

  6. In the new window, choose Open or Save and click OK.

  7. The saved file has a separate XLIFF file with source strings for each company language. If you included translations, you'll get separate XLIFF files for each combination of company languages and their translations. If some source strings don't have translations in a selected language, those translations will be empty in the XLIFF files.

    Note:

    The exported translation file name includes the date and time it was exported, in this format: Year-Month-Day_Hour-Minute-Second. The system uses Pacific time for this naming convention.

To import strings from the Strings subtab:

Follow the steps listed in Importing Translations into a Translation Collection.

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