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Leveraging translations from another target language variant within the same project

Hi

In Passolo, the source language is en-US and we have strings lists in en-GB for British spelling. I am adding en-NZ and en-AU languages and I would like to prepopulate the New Zeland and Australian strings list with the contents of the en-GB file.

So I open the Australian string list and I select Home > Leverage, then I pick the current project from the "Read data from" dropdown list. The following leverage options are used:

Passolo Options dialog box showing Leverage settings with options to read string lists with same primary languages, source file name, and get data from strings with same string ID, resource ID, source string.

When I click OK, no matches are found. 

However, if I split the project files so that I end up with project1 containing en-GB as a target language and project 2 containing en-AU and en-NZ, then I can leverage the en-GB translations from project 1 into the en-AU translation lists in project 2. It works but I wish I didn't have to create additional project files. Maybe I am missing a trick. It seems to me it would be useful to be able to select a specific locale to leverage data from in the above screen and maintain all English language variants within the same project.

Regards

Max

Max CECILIEN

  • Leverage is a function that always needs another project where you are leveraging from. Therefore the described approach with a split or copied project is not the missing trick, but the correct solution approach to achieve what you are looking for.

    As always there are other solution approaches and I remember that I implemented a macro that copied translations from one to another language in the project. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find it in my archives.