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The.pot fileisexportedfromthe"Translationspane"onpage530intheDesigner.Thefilecon-
tainsalistoftextsinthebaselanguage.InOLConnectthisisthelanguageinwhichthetemplate
wasoriginallywritten.(Atemplate'slanguagecanbesetviathe"LocaleSettings"onpage460
dialog.)
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A.po fileholdstranslatedtextsforonelanguage.Each.pofilehasanentrybywhichOLCon-
nectrecognizesthetargetlanguage.
(See:"Exportingandimportingtranslationfiles"onpage421.)
Thesefiletypesarewidelyusedintranslationsoftware,soyoucanteamupwithaprofessionaltrans-
latorortranslationagencytotranslateyourtemplates,oryoucandoityourselfusingafreeonlinetool,
suchasthePoeditsoftware.
Otherwaystotranslateatemplate
Thebuilt-intranslationfeatureiseasytouseforlabelsandshorttextsinforinstanceinvoices,web
forms,transactionemailmessages,andpacklists.Itislesssuitableforlongtextslikeinsurance
policiesortermsandconditions.
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Forlongertextsitisrecommendedtouseacontent management systemincombinationwith
scripts.
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Itisalsopossibletousesnippetsorseparatesectionsfortranslationpurposesincombination
withscripts.
Translating a template
Tomakeuseofthebuilt-intranslationfeature,takethefollowingsteps.
1. Tagcontentfortranslation.See"Taggingelementsfortranslation"onthenextpage.
2. Optional:enablethepluralizationoptiononanytranslationentrythatshouldconformwiththe
numberinacertaindatafield;see"Pluralization"onpage420.
3. ExporttheentriesontheTranslationspanetoa.potfile.See"Exportingafilefortranslation
(.pot)"onpage421.
4. Openthe.potfileinatranslationtool(e.g.Poedit),translatethetextsand/orenterthe(textwith)
plurals.
Or,ifyouworkwithatranslatorortranslationagency,sendthemthe.potfile.
Theresultisa.pofile(oneperlanguage).
5. Importthe.pofileorfiles.See"Importingtranslations(.po)"onpage421.
6. Setthetemplate'sLocale,orselectthefieldthatcontainsaLocalevalue,inordertogetoutputin
thecorrectlanguage.See"Changingthelocale"onpage295.
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