Adam has a built-in Translation-framework that allows you to easily translations our out-of-the-box studios or any custom studio to another language. These translations are stored in the database and can be configured using the Config Studio. In the last couple of months we've noticed a few times that people don't know that they can easily transfer these translations to another database.

This can be done using the Adam.Core.CommandLine-tool. The ExportTranslations command exports one or more languages of all or some translations to an XML file. The ImportTranslations command can then be used to import these translations in another database.

The ExportTranslations command has a -studio- and a -module-argument that allows you to export only the translations that match your custom studio for example. These arguments support an * as a wildcard. For example, to export the French translations used only by the Config Studio, do something like this:

Adam.Core.CommandLine.exe ExportTranslations -studio=Config* -path=C:\English.xml -language=French

Note though that exporting the ConfigStudio-studio alone is most of the time not sufficient. Quite a few translations are shared by all studios (e.g. error messages, trace messages, providers...) and are stored in other Studio-codes in the translations (e.g. Adam.Core, Adam.Tools, Adam.Web.Core, Providers...). Make sure to export them to if this is necessary.

By default the ImportTranslations-command will import the exported translations again in the same languages as the languages that were used during the export. The language names have to match between the source and target database in this case. You first have to create any missing languages using the Config Studio in the target database if you want to import in languages that don't exist yet. You can easily force ImportTranslations to import in a different language though. Simply open the XML-file and you'll notice entries like this:

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<language name="English" />

Search and replace these nodes to import in a different language.

More information about ADAM translations can be found in the Adam Documentation.