You use the Translation Data toolkit (TD toolkit) to add
unsupported language to databases. The base language remains the same,
and the other language is added as a second language. For example,
a Canadian company can add French as a second database language.
Before you begin
XML Localization Interchange File Format (XLIFF) is an XML
file with specific tags for the translation process. XLIFF files follow
the 8-bit Unicode Transformation Format (UTF-8) standard for formatting
languages.
About this task
You can add an unsupported second language to the database
to allow non-English language users to view and make database changes.
If the database is used in a base language other than English, you
can translate the English language database into an unsupported base
language. For example, you can translate a database to Estonian for
Estonian-speaking users. You can add a secondary language, such as
French, to the Estonian language database.
Procedure
- To export translatable data from the database, complete
the following steps:
- In the tools\maximo installation subdirectory,
run the export command.
- Run the tdtoolkit -export batch
file. This batch file exports translatable data into
the \tools\maximo\xliff\export directory.
- To translate all XLIFF files from English to the localized
language, complete the following steps:
- In each XLIFF file, find every instance of the <target> </target> tags.
- Replace the text between the tags with the text in the
language into which you are translating.
- To add the translated XLIFF files into the database, complete
the following steps:
- Create the \tools\maximo\lc\xliff subdirectory
in which lc represents the two-letter language
code. The two-letter language code is in the MAXLANGCODE column in
the LANGUAGE table.
- Copy the files in the \tools\maximo\xliff\export directory
to the new subdirectory, \tools\maximo\lc\xliff.
- To import the XLIFF files into the database, in the
installation directory, run the tdtoolkit -addlang -tllc
-versionV7100-000 import command. For example,
to import an Indonesian (unsupported) database, run the import command: tdtoolkit
-addlang -tlid -version7100-000.