Multi-Language Add-In for Visual Studio

Multi-Language Add-In for Visual Studio


Request: Simple Excel Export + Indicate translation status

Phil,

I know you may have your hands full of your other projects and implementing other useful features in MultiLang, but I think this idea may be useful to a broader audience of ML users.

Problem

Basically, we often use simple excel export, as we don't need the context information provided by the full-featured Excel export, and explaining the idea of context information/resource string numbers and how they work seems to often be too much to the translators we work with + they feel they can charge us more if there's more strings visually wink

So we use simple to save on effort and translation costs. However, what we love about the full-featured export is translation status indicators, and our translators seem to like those too ('pay more attention if something is in red' seems to work just fine cool). But as we all know, translation status indicators are only available with the standard Excel export.

Solution

We'd love to have the best of both worlds: simple export/import with translation status indicators. I believe many of your users may be in the position we're in, and find such an ability desirable both for cost-cutting, as well as ease-of-use purposes.

Summary

What do you think about it Phil? Is there perhaps a technical limitation as to why this might not be possible?

What do you guys/users/devs think about it? Do you use simple Excel export as much as we do? Do you see yourselves using it more if it had translation indicators?

Germany

Hi,

I have added this feature to version 4.7x.0019

(and fixed a stupid bug generating new .resx files which I introduced in version 4.7x.0018).

Phil

> I have added this feature to version 4.7x.0019

You already added the feature? This has to be the best timing ever to code a feature request! Thanks so much, already downloaded the new version - our translators will sure be happy when we release a new version of our app.