BPM 7.2, process translation guide

Question

Good day!
I'm creating a process in BPM 7.2 and as I can see there is a feature to translate processes by using xlf files. But I was failed to find any documents elaborates the procedure of translation... If anybody have done that task I would be really appreciate the help.

Answer 1

Hi Kirill,
The official documentation about this feature will be avaialbale on the help portal with the SP02 release of 7.20, in the beginnig of March.
In the meantime, you can follow this procedure to be able to translate language specific attributes (the formatting is lost, unfortunately):
Translating Language-Specific Attributes in BPM
When you model a process, language-specific content is automatically stored in a resource file. For different types of elements containing text, a corresponding resource file is created. These files are of S2X format and use the XLF file extension. To edit XLF files, you use the S2X editor in the SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio.
In SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management (BPM) translation is supported for the following elements:
Element
XLF File
Located in Node
Process
<process name>.bpmn.xlf
bpmn
Task
<task name>.task.xlf
tasks
Function
<function name>.function.xlf
functions
Ruleset/Flow Ruleset
<ruleset/flow ruleset name>.function.xlf
functions
Event Trigger
<event trigger name>.eventdef.xlf
triggers
Reporting Data Source
<reporting data source name>.eventdef.xlf
reporting
You have to translate only attributes that are flagged with yes in the Translate column of the S2X editor.
The XLF files contain the texts in the language that you determined when you created the Process Composer project. For every language version other than this original language, you create a copy of the XLF file and enter the language-specific translations. Languages other than the original language are referred to as source languages.
Translated texts are included in the build when you build your project and are displayed at runtime after you deploy the project to the application server. For example, you can see translated task attributes when you log into the Universal Worklist (UWL) to execute a task. Displaying the translated text depends on the language defined for the user with which you log into the UWL.
If no translation is available, the task is displayed in the original language.
Prerequisites
You have created a Process Composer project and elements containing language-specific attributes.
You have opened the Process Development perspective in the Developer Studio and have expanded your project in the Project Explorer view.
Procedure
Expand the src node and then expand the corresponding node containing the XLF file you want to translate.
Copy the XLF file within its node.
Number of copies depends on the number of languages you want to translate to.
Add an underscore (_) and the corresponding two-character language code according to ISO standard to the name of a copied XLF file before the XLF extension.
Example
The name of the original process attributes XLF file is MyProcess.bpmn.xlf and you want to translate the attributes to German. You add an underscore (_) and de, which is the language code for German. The result is a file named MyProcess.bpmn_de.xlf.
End of the example.
In the context menu of the language-specific file, choose  Open With  S2X Document Editor .
On the Header tab page, select a source language from the Source Language dropdown list.
On the Resource Text tab page, select an entry relevant for translation and choose the Edit pushbutton.
Enter the required translation and choose the OK pushbutton.
Save, build, and deploy your project.
Edited by: Boryana Genova on Feb 18, 2010 2:40 PM
Edited by: Boryana Genova on Feb 18, 2010 2:42 PM