Performing Translations Using Stream GUI

The SOS Stream GUI itself cannot be translated itself, but it does provide a number of interactive controls to run translation actions under the Library and the Utilities menus. These menu items actually run a command line utility behind the scenes called translations2db with different options. The menu items provide convenient access to the most commonly used translation operations.

“Perform Translations…” reruns all the translation operations for datasets, related metadata, and Remote App UI. This should be used any time immediately after the “Update Library…” item has been called, because that operation clears all the translations from the Data Catalog.

There are four translation items in the Utilities menu.

Reads all the playlists (files with the pattern xx_YY.sos) in /shared/sos/locale/ and loads the translated dataset names and descriptions into the SOS Data Catalog. This command is useful when adding the dataset translations to see how they appear in the iPad (after updating the Data Catalog there). It is equivalent to running translations2db --load_playlists --verbose on the command line.

Reads all the csv files (with the pattern xx_YY.csv) in /shared/sos/locale/ and loads the major category, subcategory, and keyword translations into the SOS Data Catalog. This command is useful when adding the category/keywords translations to see how they appear in the iPad (after updating the Data Catalog there). It is equivalent to running translations2db --load_csv --verbose on the command line.

Removes all the translations in the Data Catalog for dataset name and description and for major categories, subcategories, and keywords. This command is useful to delete any prior translations made and start over without localization. It is equivalent to running translations2db --remove_all on the command line.

Reads all the tsv files (with the pattern xx.tsv) in /shared/sos/locale/iOS and converts them into xx.strings files. This command is useful when adding user interface translations to see how they appear in the Remote App. It is equivalent to running translations2db --tsv_to_ios_strings --verbose on the command line.