Copy an existing project and change target language

Question

I have a very large project (3,500 files) that I prepared for translation into French. I went through and fixed some bad segment breaks by merging them. Now I need to translate the same files into German, Spanish, and Italian. Is there any way I can prepare these other languages for translation using the "fixed" segment files from the French, instead of repeating the same steps again for all the languages. In SDLX, there use to be a Utilities function where you could copy and change the target language of an itd, which worked great for this purpose.

Paul · Answer

Hi Karen, 
 Sounds like a good idea for an app! 
 I haven't ever tried to do this on an sdlxliff, but I guess the same thing would be possible. Why don't you test it? 
 1. Create a multilingual project (this will get you language folders containing the sdlxliff files for your source files) 
 2. Back the whole project up 
 3. "Fix" the French, for example, and then copy the sdlxliff file in to the other language folders and overwrite them 
 4. Change the language codes in each sdlxliff to suit. So overwrite target-language="fr-FR" with whatever language is needed 
 I think that may be all you need to do, but I'd test it properly first and see. I'd also make sure you can still save the target files for each language after you did this... better to find out the problems (if there are any) at the start rather than at the end. 
 Regards 
 Paul

Paul · Answer

Hi Karen, 
 
No, you're not missing anything. Glad you checked all this already. I think having this under control would be the way to do it, with an app similar to the SDLX tool. Maybe it's a good opportunity for you to submit an idea for this in the app competition going on right now? 
 
 appstore.sdl.com/.../language-app-ideas-competition-2016.html 
 
Regards 
 
Paul

Jerzy Czopik · Answer

Nobody tried my solution? 
I have got a very similar problem from one of my customer and solved it exactly this way...

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Copy an existing project and change target language