Multi-Language Translation in Business Central using xlf File

Hello Readers, 

 

Few days back I was doing a upgrade project into Business Central, and there was a requirement for Multi-language translation.

So in this blog we will see how we can deal with the Chinese translation (zh-CN chinese PRC) from the English US without adding the Caption ML property.

Below are the steps that needs to be perform for the translation in business central.

 

1. Open you AL Project and in the app.json file add the below syntax to generate the XLIFF file (by default system will generate in en-US).

2. Save the app.json file after addting the Features, & Create the Package by pressing Crtl+Shift+B.

Once the Package is created, system will  generate the Translation folder with the xlf file & right click and reveal it in file explorer.

 

 

 

3. Now Copy the translated file and change the name by adding suffix language ISO Code (see the below example for Chinese PRC ISO Code zh-CN).

Change the name like below:

 

4. Open the above file in notepad and change the target language to the language code you want to translate in (in my case zh-CN).

See the example below.

change as below:

 

5.Now download the Multilingual App Toolkit from the below link and install it.

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/multilingual-app-toolkit/ 

6. Now open the XLF file (which we created in step 3) with the Multilingual Editor and click on the highlighted Translate All Button (While doing the below make sure you’re connected to internet)

 

 

Once the above Translation is done change the sate to Translated and save file & close the Editor window.  

Now open the file in visual studio and check the translation.

7. Now Publish the AL Package and install it along with the translation file. 

 

Hope this blog will be usefull for all BC/NAV developer to submit the extension as an APP on AppSource as well as to deliver the solution into multi-language.

  

You can comment on the blog if you have any doubts/queries regarding the Translation process/ multilingual toolkit app.

Thank you,

Anish Agrawal

NAV/Business Central Developer

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