Streamline has a translation tool called Translator. It is specially designed for adding new languages and creating translations for Streamline's user interface (UI). Translator allows you to:

• create completely new translation based on chosen language;
• create a variation of existing translation;
• test your translations; and
• send your translation to developers.

To add a new translation in Streamline:

As you click OK, Translator shows its main window (see figure below).

This window contains a table having three columns. Description of the columns is the following.

• String ID column depicts a tree where each category level corresponds to specific part of Streamline UI and tree leaves indicate the IDs for strings to translate.

• Original (from) column shows the original string.

• Translated (to) column shows the translation for the original. At a category level, this column shows how many strings were translated from the total number in this category. Untranslated strings or categories are colored red in this column. As you translate all strings in a category, Translator marks this category in green in this column.

To translate a string:

After you click OK, the result will appear in the main window (see figure below).

There are several special symbols in the original language that should be kept in your translation.

Symbols	Description
	Line break is required.
	Space symbol is required at the end of the line.
{1}, {2}…	Substitution marks. The number in braces indicates the serial number of the substitution. Substation mark is a sub-string in the original sentence. For example, in “Save {1}?”, {1} is substituted by a project file name. All substitution marks work regardless of order and quantity. For example, “The capital of {2} is {1}, {1}.”. If {1} = “London” and {2} = “the UK”, then the result will be “The capital of the UK is London, London.”.
{1|0=Monday|1=Tuesday}	Some enumeration.
{1|q=file:s} {1|q=wom:an,en} {1|q=woman, women}	Plural form, short version. In the short version, Translator automatically inserts the number and space before the translation. For example, “1 woman”, “2 women”.
{1|Q=? file,? files}	Plural form, long version. In this case, you can set the format of the string. Question mark “?” will be substituted by the number. For example, {1|Q=? file,? files} results in “1 file” and “2 files”.

After you finish your translation, click the Save button in the Translator toolbar.

Translator allows you to create a variation of an existing translation. This comes in handy when you need to dispute spelling, change the terminology according to your field of work, etc..

To create a variation of an existing translation:

After that, Translator shows its window (see figure below).

To find a specific term or a phrase in the language source, use Translator search. To do this, go to the menu Edit > Find…. The Find dialog shows up then (see figure below).

In the dialog:

1. Enter the phrase to find into the Search for field.
2. Set the scope to search in by checking the necessary table columns in the Subject group.
3. Choose the location where to search in the Location group.
4. Configure search options in the Options group.
5. Click OK.

To find the next occurrence, press F3 button or use the menu command Edit > Find next.

To edit a string:

The result of the edit will appear in the main window (see figure below).

Translator counts the number of overrides you have made and shows it in the Translated (to) column at a category level in green (see figure above).

To test a translation, click the Test button in the Translator toolbar (see figure below).

As you click the button, Translator runs Streamline with your language active (see figure below).

All the strings that haven’t been yet translated are enclosed in special symbols (triangles) (see figure above).

If you want your translation to be included in the distributed installation package of Streamline, you can send us your translation. To do this:

If everything is okay, Translator will notify you about that (see figure below).

The differences between the Complete translation and Localization patch options are shown in the table below.

Next: Using Streamline on a Virtual Machine

Download PDF