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Bug 329339

Summary:	Translations should be able to be part of the .rptdesign
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Mikkel Andersen <mikkel.t.andersen>
Component:	BIRT	Assignee:	Birt-Report-inbox <Birt-Report-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Xiaoying Gu <bluesoldier>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	bluesoldier, lchan
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	3.7.0
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:	Obsolete

Description Mikkel Andersen

2010-11-03 08:29:34 EDT

Build Identifier: 2.6.0

The .rptdesign file can contain almost everything, images, connections, datasets, layout, css... but not the translations themselves. We distribute the report by uploading the .rptdesign file to a server, but are forced to have the .properties in the shared resource folder for the report to use the translations.
It would be nice if the key /value pair together with language could be added directly to the .rptdesign - since it is an xml format it should be easy to follow other widely used translation-xml schemas

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Xiaoying Gu

2010-11-03 22:31:53 EDT

The separate property files enable users to localize the text in different locales without modifying the report design. It's also the convention of Eclipse does.