Translate Dynamics NAV Custom Object Into Other Languages Using the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Merge Tool
Prerequisite:
Install Appropriate Dynamics NAV Language Pack.
Install Dynamics NAV Merge Tool
- Highlight and Export Dynamics NAV Custom Objects To be Translated, From The Dynamics NAV Development Environment In Text Format.
Dynamics NAV Development Environment → File → Export
- Import the Exported Custom Objects In Dynamics NAV Merge Tool.
Merge Tool → Versions → Import Object Text File
- Create ENU Captions for the Object Controls (Fields and Labels) After Successful Import
MergeTool → Versions → Navigate → Create ENU Captions → Create/Export With Language
- Back To NAV Import The Newly Created ENU Captions
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Compile and Then Export the Translations
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Back To Merge Tool, Import the Translations, Ensure Language Code Is ENU
- Next, Translation Token → Create new Languages From ENU
- Select everything To be Translated, Click NO on next dialog
- Pick from available languages, Click Ok
- Selected languages are created and displayed
- Filter on newly created languages and COPY ROWS
- Paste copied rows in Excel
- Copy the cell to be translated and paste same in google translate
- Copy the translated text from the browser and overwrite the cells in excel
- Highlight all the columns with data in excel and copy back to merge tool to overwrite filtered rows
- Click ok to close translation tokens
- Export translated file in merge tool
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Import same translation file into dynamics nav development environment
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After importing translation file, compile and open one of the objects and check the result of translation.