Word Translation

easabangan

Hi,

Any idea on how to translate words in a report.

Ex.
Normal situation - You are invoicing your customer with your default language.
Other Situation - If a customer language is japanese it converts the words of the your defualt language to japanese words.


Thanks in advance.

Ian_Piddington10199

If you just want the labels to change then you need to set teh Caption ML property to have the text you want for that language.

If you want the data translated then there is no way in standard NAV that I know of


IAn

kine

If you want data translated, for items you can use the Item translation table. If you want to have other things translated (like payment terms etc.), use NAV 5.0 or add the same functionality like item translations (additional table with language code, the main table PK value and translation). Than you need to modify your report to read the translation when needed.

Ian_Piddington10199

i had forgotten about the item transaltion stuff.

You'd still hit a problem if someone typed in some extra descriptive info but you could get most of the way there.

kine

(or sometime we are using separate payment terms for foreign languages with description in their language. than we have correct description of the payment terms on the invoice, you just needs to set correct code on the invoice before posting - e.g. through default code on the customer card).

easabangan

I already know how the item translation works. But its not the need of our client. What I exactly needed is like a dictionary.

Example :
- the user inserts a word "Goodbye"
- then the program will show this word in japanese "Sayonara".

Ian_Piddington10199

That’s what I thought you might want, a completely freeform translation tool. I haven't seen one for NAV and to build one would be a nightmare I think. It’s not only the literal word for word translation but also the correct sentence structure you would need.

DenSter

For a long time I had been looking for an HTML editor inside NAV for a customer. I ended up giving them a link to an online editor, and they are now using that one and are happy with it. Maybe you can find an online translation site and provide a link to it. It might not be as sophisticated as you want it to be, but for the purposes it might be a good workaround.

easabangan

Maybe you can find an online translation site and provide a link to it. It might not be as sophisticated as you want it to be, but for the purposes it might be a good workaround.

May you share the link to an online editor that you were saying...?

Thanks a lot!

Malajlo

You can write your own function that retrieves translated word (two parameters that exits translated text).
I.e.:

Translate(LangID : Code[10];Word : Text[1024]) : Text[1024]
Case LangID of
  'JPN':
    begin
      case word of
        'Goodby':exit('Sayonara') ;
      end ;
    end ;
end ;
exit(Word) ;

Then change SourceExpr on TextBox to

translate(Customer."Language ID","Description")

If you have to translate several words in one variable, consider additional function that translates separated words and returns translated sentence.

easabangan

You can write your own function that retrieves translated word

Thanks for the suggestion.... but I am looking forward for a "ready made" that will automatically translate a word or a sentence or a paragraph.

jannestig

This may be an area inside navision where you can utilize the multilanguage sections.

Under the interactions setup for salutations you have transalations for standard phrases "dear madam" etc against each language code which is used when producing reports or interactions to the contact the default language will appear with the tanslation based upon the contacts language code.

With an invoice the wording i would suspect would be the same repitive phrases again and again.

you would have to setup the correct grammer yourself and of course in japanese decide which of the 3 character languages you will be using which has other issues as well.

But this would be a good basis for doing what you require.

No online translation tool is ever 100% or i would have gotten a lot more dates then slaps

Malajlo

Easabangan, you have several possibilities to translate reports.
One is CaptionML, where you can add foreign descriptions of text boxes.
Second one is to translate in way like VATText (i.e. R:204) is generated.
Third one is to translate text at point of insertion in record (i.e. Item in sales line is converted that way).
Fourth one is to translate text "at-site" (see previous example of code)