Hi Steven,

thank you for your answer. I'm going to be a little painful with this one.

Unfortunately working with one xlsx for all languages (20+ with several sublanguages) is not an option as the number of source terms differs in many cases.

I have installed Multiterm 2017 SR1 14.2.7.43908, and here does Glossary Converter not support sdltb as output.

To make things even more weird, I'm currently testing on a VM Multiterm 2019 15.0.1.4389 where Glossary Converter works fine for sdltb-output.

I found this on the matter after doing some digging:

https://community.sdl.com/product-groups/translationproductivity/f/160/t/9166

So, after this I made the good old xlsx->xml conversion with Glossary Converter, and imported these xml's into the termbase set up with several sublanguages. Unfortunately, the problem still remains, I import for Swiss German, everything is set up for Swiss German and it overwrites the Swiss entries to Austrian and leaves Swiss entries empty. I have not selected anything for Austrian, altough it the termbase contains this sublanguage, too - this should not be a problem for a multilingual database.

As you can see, the XML is set up properly for DE-CH...

but after importing it becomes Austrian.

Maybe I should try to write some rules in Excel to get every entry for all languages into one sheet which I wanted to avoid as the source terms differ in many cases.

Best regards,

Adam

Hi Ádám,

I work with large excels with +30 languages including variants, like en-US, en-GB, es-MX, es-ES and I always have some empty translations in some languages for a given term... Just to clarify, termbases doesn't work like translation memories, therefore there is not "source" as such. All you need is to organize correspondences, you can leave a term blank let's say in en-GB, and then have the term translated in de-CH and de-AT. I highly recommend coding all your terms together in an only excel divided in columns marked with language-country, even for English (not just en but en-GB or en-US).You may have something like

and then you can open your excel in glossary converter and tell the program which language is which (if mistakenly recognized) in settings -> fields:

I hope it helps,

Almudena

Hi Ádám,

I work with large excels with +30 languages including variants, like en-US, en-GB, es-MX, es-ES and I always have some empty translations in some languages for a given term... Just to clarify, termbases doesn't work like translation memories, therefore there is not "source" as such. All you need is to organize correspondences, you can leave a term blank let's say in en-GB, and then have the term translated in de-CH and de-AT. I highly recommend coding all your terms together in an only excel divided in columns marked with language-country, even for English (not just en but en-GB or en-US).You may have something like

and then you can open your excel in glossary converter and tell the program which language is which (if mistakenly recognized) in settings -> fields:

I hope it helps,

Almudena

Hi Almudena,

thank you for your answer. Yes, I'm aware of the fact that TB's doesn't not work like TM's, altough you can set for example in Multiterm that a selected language should be only source or target. Sorry it's German, but I hope you know this option in Multiterm.

Regarding the Excel, yepp, that's what I wanted to avoid, because like I mentioned, the terms differ and there are 20+ languages with 500+ terms. To write a function in Excel requires some time and I wanted to avoid it as I thougt Multiterm was a multilingual database that handles such functionalities.

Best regards,

Adam