How do you let your client edit Application.properties?

[Marc Guillemot <mg...@yahoo.fr>]

Hi,

has someone a great way to suggest to allow non developers to edit the
different localisations of Application.properties in a "nice" form? I had
the idea to developp something (Excel macro or java program) to generate my
different Application.properties files from an excel spreadsheet allowing
the people making the translations to edit this file.
Has someone already done something like this? Or do you have a good, safe
way to let non developers edit the translations?

Marc.




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Re: How do you let your client edit Application.properties?

[Davor Cengija <da...@mail.inet.hr>]

Marc Guillemot wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> has someone a great way to suggest to allow non developers to edit the
> different localisations of Application.properties in a "nice" form? I had
> the idea to developp something (Excel macro or java program) to generate
> my different Application.properties files from an excel spreadsheet
> allowing the people making the translations to edit this file.
> Has someone already done something like this? Or do you have a good, safe
> way to let non developers edit the translations?

Well, I have a way which you should not follow: don't just copy properties 
file and handle it to the translators. For some reason, people tend to 
ignore 'do not touch anything on the left side of the equals sign' advice 
and finally you end up with a bunch of missing keys. Obviously, translating 
(and even lectoring keys) is a kind of a challenge for them :-)

It would be elegant if you could provide a simple application which would 
read a property file, display each key with the existing value and a text 
box below it. On submit, generate another properties file and that's it. 
4-5 hours, I'd say.

-- 
davor.cengija@mail.inet.hr


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