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About FlexSim Translation Documentation

Hello all,

Regarding the last translation method offered since V21.2, I have some question about the .csv and the method itself:

1. As I opened the original .csv in english, I find some rows of the document in this way:

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Where the mark is in green is where the 3rd column started showing the original English-language text used for that node. My guess is that, the text where the yellow mark is is the continuation of the english text for that node. I've found this in several other nodes. What I've been doing is copy the text marked in yellow (placed in column A) and paste it after the other text marked in green (column C), however, I have my doubts about it.

¿Is that the right thing to do or is there a reason why there is that text in the first column and that blank row?

2. Some languages like spanish have letters such as ñ or words with accents that are write above the letter. Since the document is encoded in UTF-8, how could I manage to write translated words that has this words with the special characters described in the documentation?

3. For text like this:

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Is it recommended to keep the text in quotation marks exactly the same? I've realized this show the icon on the left of some window. Should I keep it without space between the text in quotation marks and the translated text?

4. So far I haven't found the nodes for these splitter panes:

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I hadn't been able to found a node like this one:

VIEW:/active/MainPanel/BackPanel/SplitterXPane/ToolTabPane/TabControl/LibraryIconGrid/GroupIconGrid>viewfocus/Fixed Resources

I don't know whether this is my mistake or is one of the potential missing nodes in the .csv

Thank you in advance and I would appreciate any other recommendations about his besides the ones given in the documentation.

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Matthew Gillespie answered Sebastián Cañas commented

1. You shouldn't edit anything in columns 1-3. Doing so can cause rows to be skipped if the values in the first three columns were edited. You should only be editing column 4. I don't know why you're seeing the english text spread across multiple lines like that. My guess is that that is some setting in your spreadsheet program that you need to turn off. If you are using Excel you should import the csv file using this method. You can also import the file directly into a global table in FlexSim if you want using this code snippet:

importtable(Table("GlobalTable1"), "translations/spanish.csv", 0, 0)

2. The CSV file is encoded in UTF-8 so that letters like ñ will be correctly displayed. This works fine:

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1644530536993.png3. Yes, leave the text in quotation marks where it is and only translate the display text at the end like this:

1644530523287.png4. Those lines are in the file. In the 22.0.1 en-US.csv file I opened up its on line 3589:

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Thank you @Matthew Gillespie! I'll follow these recommendations
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Jeanette F answered Sebastián Cañas commented

Hello @Sebastián Cañas,

I opened the translation file and I can see the following.

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From what I understand, you would create a copy of this file and rename it. Then you would fill in the 4th column with the translated text.

By using the find and select feature in Excel I was able to find the nodes you referenced above.

For instance, Fixed Resources in on line 562.


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Hello @Jeanette F ,

Thank you for your answer. It is indeed as you mentioned, I've been working filling the 4th column, althought I have some doubts about it, that's why I create the question.

For example:

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If you check line 286 the row is blank, and the text in column A of line 287 and 288 is not a node. It seems to be part of the text in column C of line 285. I want to understand if I have to keep that structure or I should modify it.

About my 2nd question:

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In the image above, in this menu of Flowitems it should say Niño - Niña, which is the translation for Boy and Girl in spanish, but I haven't been able to make it show, even using the special characters described in the documentation, for example, writing $Niño$ or Ni$ñ$o.

About the node, the one in line 562 is not the one that I could use to translated the splitter panes of the library, they reference something else. I have also searched using Find and Select of Excel but I haven't found those nodes.

I hope this explanation make myself understand better about what I'm asking for.

Thank you

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