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 strings in company languages consisting of 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 you can even drag and drop them to the Import Strings dialogue window while importing strings.

Note:

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

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. An Export Strings dialogue window listing the source languages appears.

    • If you want to define a custom data type of the header of the XLIFF file to be exported, check the Customize XLIFF header datatype box. Then enter a user-defined value of the XLIFF 1.2 standard into the field. This value will be set as the data type of the exported file. An x-prefix will be added into the header of the exported file to signify that the data type value is customized.

      See an example of the resulting customized XLIFF file header:

      Export collection datatype header example.

    • You can also export translation collection strings that have been installed as part of a SuiteApp. Select a SuiteApp in the SuiteApps for Export list and continue with the export.

  4. The following export options are available:

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

    • If you want to export source strings in the listed company languages including translations, check the Include existing translations box. Then select the languages whose translations you want to export in the All Languages window and click the arrow to move them into the Selected Languages window.

  5. Click Export Strings.

  6. In the newly opened window, select either Open or Save and click OK.

  7. The saved file contains a separate XLF file with source strings for each company language. If you decided to include existing translations, the saved file contains separate XLF files for all combinations of translation strings in company languages and their translations. If some strings in the source languages lack translations in the selected language, they will be exported, but their translations in the XLF files will be empty.

    Note:

    The name of the exported translation file consists of the date and time at which the file was exported in the following format: Year-Month-Day_Hour-Minute-Second. The system uses Pacific time in this naming convention.

To import strings from the Strings subtab:

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

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