Recently, I tried to translate my game for the first time. I was recommended to use the auto text capture features, and just edit each thing manually. This is fine, and works for most games, but I made a few mistakes: I left custom nametags, chat-bubbles, and quest dialogue GUIs with the AutoLocalize property enabled, and this has spammed up the translation list with 82 pages of random junk:
Here you can see the quest dialogue (which comes up one character at a time):
I have now fixed these issues (and swapped to using LocalizationService where necessary), but I am left with pages of unnecessary spam in my translation table. This is making it harder for my translators to do their jobs, and is just generally irritating.
I therefore propose a mass delete option. There’s not much else to say; it’s a feature I honestly expected to already exist, and one that is sorely needed, for me and others who have a large spammed up database, and doesn’t seem to have any technical reason not to exist.
I have already started deleting each entry manually, and I know that this is unlikely to be added soon enough to help me, but for all those who follow my mistakes in the future this would be an life-saving feature.
For anyone who says I should just delete the database and start again: we already have several languages completely translated, so that’s not really an option either, as it’s at this point easier to just cope with the spam.
There’s a button that lets you delete all untranslated content specifically, and only content from the ATC. It will not delete custom untranslated entries. This seems to be what you’re looking for? Or does it need to be more granular?
If you have a mix of auto-captured strings, some of which you don’t want to delete, and some you do - the only option is to manually go through and delete all the ones you want to do. Being able to multi-select items would massively speed this up. (assuming you haven’t had translators go through and add manual translations for the valid strings).
(I turned on auto-capture for about a week, after noticing it took awhile for all the strings to become captures, and then after a week was a bit shocked to see 400+ pages… 6 months later, now moving to using CSVs as primary source (with a custom translation layer to enable in-game localisation change). However I still want to have my CSVs on the cloud for the auto-translate languages I’m not localising in yet. (Replace table is inappropriate as it’s for a pending update, and having issues which I filed a bug report for updates)).
I’ve just spent 6 hours cleaning up 430 pages of content (mainly usernames) (with the help of someone else, to parallelise the process). It’s not exactly a fun process having to make 3 clicks to delete each string individually, and this workflow could massively be sped if if such mass select was created.
