This guide gives an introduction in how to work with texts, languages, and translations in Signifikant. This article gives an overview and further describes data texts.
Overview
There are several types of texts in Signifikant.
Application texts. These are used for various function and menues in the Web Viewer and are based in Signifikant’s translations. Currently supported languages are found here: Custom texts and available languages
Custom application texts. This is when an application text does not fit customer’s needs. Custom texts will override the application texts. It is also for some functions possible to define keytexts in profile.config, and such keytexts shall be defined as a custom text. See here for more information: Custom texts and available languages
Data texts. These texts are name of parts, specifications on parts, name of kits, products and selected lead texts as the text in the start page. These texts are updated in the Manager application. See this article.
Texts from API. Eg error messages from integrations come as a part of an API resonse. In this case Web Viewer simply show what is returned. See here for a description of options: https://signifikant.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ASKB/pages/974585868/General+objects+and+attributes#Texts-returned-in-calls
Adding languages
Available languages are defined in the language storage. Languages may be
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Select which texts to export by selecting lines in the storage.
Right click and select the Export option
Select the format of the export files. Two export formats are supported: XLIFF and Signifikant Simplified XML in version 4.5 and earlier. In version 5.0 and later Excel is added as an option.
Formats
Format | Description |
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XLIFF | XLIFF will use a source language and create one xml file per language with the source language added as a reference. XLIFF does not contain any ID. |
Signifikant Simplified XML (SSX) | Signifikant Simplified XML will allow user to select to create one xml file per language or one xml file with all languages. The persistent-ID of each text will be included in the export. |
Excel | An excel file with each language as a column will be produced. persistent-ID and database-ID will be included in the export as separate columns. Note that the two line page headers must remain if the same file is to be imported again. Excel option exist in version 5.0 and later. |
Import texts
The import function in the will allow to import XLIFF (one language per file), Signifikant Simplified XML (one or several languages per file) or Excel (version 5.0 and later). The import function may be started by
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