Translate Content with PO Files

Export user-created content in your workspace, send it to translators and import the translated files.

You can translate user-created content into all languages that are activated in your workspace.

You can translate content directly, as described in section Translating diagrams. You can also export the content to be translated outside of SAP Signavio Process Manager.

The following content can be exported for translating:

  • regular and custom attributes of the following types:

    • single-line text

    • multi-line text

  • diagram elements

  • linked dictionary entries

  • diagram names

  • folder names

Not included in the export:

  • names of multi-language custom attributes (their values are included)

  • text formatting (the text itself is exported)

  • nested links

The source language for all translations is always the default language of the workspace.

You export the content and send it to translators. To make the translation available in your workspace, you import the translated files.

Exported Files

The files are exported as a ZIP archive.

The ZIP archive contains the following files:

Type

Number

Content

Created

Action

CSV

1

The file summary.csv lists all exported items.

Always

No action necessary

POT

1

The file template.pot contains all translatable strings in the default workspace language and their location in the content. It doesn't contain any translations.

Always

This file can be used as a source file for all languages.

  • Use this file for languages for which no PO file is created.

  • For the import, save every language as a separate PO file.

PO

1 per language

The content of a PO file is language-specific.

Each PO file contains the translatable strings and the translations already available for the language.

There's no PO file for the default workspace language, as its strings are already included in the POT file.

Is created for a language if

  • translations are already available

or

  • the export includes attributes with default values

A PO file shows the existing translations for the language specified.

We recommend to always use the POT file as the source file for translations.

Ensure that the original file names and the folder structure are maintained during translation.

Export Content for Translation

Follow these steps:

  1. In the explorer, open Start of the navigation pathImport/Export Next navigation step Export Diagram TranslationsEnd of the navigation path.

  2. Select the diagrams and folders to be translated.

  3. To include linked dictionary entries, enable Include directly linked Dictionary items.

  4. Choose Export.

    The selected content is downloaded as a ZIP archive. The file is saved to your browser's download folder.

Import Translated Content

Once the PO files are translated, you can import them to SAP Signavio Process Manager.

Follow these steps:

  1. In the explorer, open Start of the navigation pathImport/Export Next navigation step Import Diagram TranslationsEnd of the navigation path.

  2. Select Choose file.

  3. In the dialog, select one translated PO file per language and choose Import.

    The PO files are uploaded. The content is available for all languages that are activated for the workspace.

For each target language, you've can upload one translated PO file at a time. If you've more than one file for a language, repeat the import. You can't upload PO files for the default language of the workspace.

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