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Hi All,

Does anyone have tips for making a multilingual Opus Publication?

Currently I am considering adding all the text to an Access DB and then having a crazy amount of variables in the publication and loading each from the Excel on page load.

Anyone have a better method for doing this?

Thanks, Luke

Hi Luke,

That depends on exactly what you're trying build and just how crazy complex you want to build

1. At a simpler level, and depending on the amount of data you're storing - I find INI files a better way of managing multiple configurations. One language in each file, and just change the path for selection.

2. Then you've got Databases and Excel which are better for large sources of data but are probably more difficult to set-up.

3. You can use standard text files - but the lack of organisation of the data can make if difficult to manage the data.

4. Those who don't want or can't use data sources, the time consuming alternative is multiple versions of the publication.

5. Internal lists - IE setting configurations within an Opus Script object - are a possible balance between 1 - 4.

Then once you have picked your data source, you have the different options for assigning the data:

1. Direct to variable - which generally means one variable at a time - myLoadButton = DataSource.loadButtonValue

2. Looped by array - which means knowing which array element is used on what object - myButtons[x] = DataSource.loadButtonValue

3. OPP - which involves assigning the data source direct to an object - FindChild(DataSource.loadButtonName) = DataSource.loadButtonValue

This last method can also be used with cloning to add values to clone objects.

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Thanks Mack,

I will take a look, I am leaning toward using an Access DB as I am already with this publication so easier to add an additional table for each language.

Assigning the data, hmm, I'll see what works best.

Thanks again, Luke