Regina Henschel wrote:
The help files are all translated. But often the translation was so bad,
that we started a review of the help pages (until now more than 80
issues, see issue 51810 for reference). But I found in the module Base,
that the errors are not in the translation but in the English text. I
found about 20 pages which refer to the old UI of 1.1.5. So I decided to
wait till the English help pages are adapted. If you start with the base
"Welcome"-page by switching the option in the combobox to "Base", then
you will get a few adapted pages, but when you start from the content
tab, you will get very often pages, that refer to the old UI.
Hi Regina,
the translated online help pages are always several weeks or even months
behind the current english source files. The reason is that the files
get translated to all languages by external vendors, and we do not send
them new files every day, but collect the files for batch processing.
So, sometimes the translations are outdated and not correct for the new,
changed UI, which does not mean that the translations are "bad" as such.
We just have to wait for them to catch up.
Unfortunately, the time deadlines for UI freeze, translation handover,
and releases sometimes do not match perfectly with the time needed to do
the translation work.
The english source texts that still refer to the old UI are there
because we had no time to do a major overhaul of the Base help. So we
just added the new path to the new UI guides. These are the pages you
see when you start from the Base "Welcome" page. We did not delete the
old files because they contain a lot of links and Help-IDs, and we had
no time to redistribute the Help-ID texts (for the bubble help) and to
crosscheck everything. Sorry for that. But the old files have been
translated years ago anyhow, so there should be no unnecessary work for
translators due to this decision.
Kind regards
Uwe
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