{"id":35824,"date":"2016-08-07t04:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-07t08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.deco-dalles.com\/?p=35824"},"modified":"2019-10-18t11:42:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18t15:42:17","slug":"translate-primavera-p6-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.deco-dalles.com\/translate-primavera-p6-project\/","title":{"rendered":"translate a primavera p6 project to a different language"},"content":{"rendered":"
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’s primavera p6 tutorials<\/a> & training<\/a>. i mean i know i’m tooting my own horn here, but it’s not to be an egotist. when i first started blogging about primavera p6 in 2011, and i would gaze daily at my little google analytics screen that would inform of what sort of visitors were visiting our site. i was always amazed (and still am) at how big the world is and how easy it is to connect over this global web. i would tell my wife, “wow! i had 6 pageviews\u00a0from\u00a0azerbaijan last week. so cool!” (last month we had 52 pageviews from that same country – someone\u00a0like us in azerbaijan!) to me azerbaijan seemed pretty far from home.<\/p>\n the point is – project controls<\/a> are a global phenomena and primavera p6 is used worldwide in places i never imagined. and being such a worldly group that we project controllers are, we often\u00a0stumble into language conflicts and need to cross language barriers.<\/p>\n oracle has put some effort into having the primavera p6\u00a0software support multiple languages. this means the buttons and menus of p6 can be set to read in a language other than english. primavera p6 supports natively the following languages:<\/p>\n however, what if your project’s data was written in a language you aren’t familiar with?\u00a0do you have to hire a translator to translate\u00a0all 5,000 activities (ouch!) or can you leverage some existing technology to help and accomplish this in minutes?<\/p>\n the answer to the last bit is – yes. google can help.<\/p>\n here’s how.<\/p>\n let’s get started. to demonstrate the process, i’m using a p6 project from the sample database you can install. i happen to be fluent in english and french due to my canadian heritage (i can also skin a beaver or make maple syrup). so i will be translating the primavera p6 project from english to french and can verify the result is acceptable.<\/p>\n here’s the sample project we’re starting with. nothing fancy. i made a copy of it in my db because i want to preserve the original project in english.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n let’s export the fields we want to translate to excel<\/a>. start the export wizard (file->export). we’ll only we exporting activity data, so choose that.<\/p>\n <\/em>next we will will pick the columns to export. so we will create a new export template in primavera p6. click add on this screen.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n select the following columns. note: we don’t need all of these columns, but primavera p6 professional forces some of them to be exported.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n finish the export by setting the file name and clicking finish.<\/p>\n you should now have an excel file that looks like the one below.<\/p>\n make a copy of it.\u00a0<\/strong>we’re going to edit this file, but we need to preserve the original for the re-importing step, so make a copy.<\/p>\n editing the original excel sheet, delete the rows and columns as indicated. basically, you are keeping 2 columns of data with no headers – activity name<\/strong> and wbs name<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n here’s the intended result.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n head over to translate.google.com<\/a>. it’s a pretty simple tool. you pick the originating and destination languages, type something in the box and get the translated version on the right.<\/p>\n\n
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how to translate a primavera p6 project to another language with google translate<\/h2>\n
1) exporting the data<\/h3>\n
2) selecting columns to translate<\/h3>\n
3) google translation<\/h3>\n