List untranslated items

  • Release version: Yokohama
  • Updated January 30, 2025
  • 1 minute to read

    • Get a list of all custom UI strings that have not been translated into any language (English only) to provide your own translations.

    Before you begin

    Role required: admin

    About this task

    This procedure activates modules corresponding to the following translation tables that list records with only an English version.

    • Translated Name / Fields
    • Messages
    • Field Labels
    • Choices

    This method of listing untranslated items does not identify strings that have been translated into at least one non-English language but are missing translations in other languages.

    Note:
    This process works best with a small number of untranslated items. For information about a workaround for large numbers of untranslated items, see the Inefficient load of customizations for System Localization -> Non-Translated Items [KB0813304] article in the Now Support Knowledge Base.

    Procedure

    1. Navigate to All > System Definition > Application Menus.
    2. Select the System Localization application menu.
    3. From the Modules list in the System Localization record, update the Customizations, Translated Name/Fields, Messages, Field Labels, and Choice modules to set the Active field to True using the list editor.

      When the list is sorted by Order, the modules appear in order from 500 to 900.

      Non-translated localization modules.
      Note:
      Instead of Customizations, your list might show a record titled Non-translated Items. When you activate the Customizations module, the title changes to Non-translated Items.
      After the application navigator refreshes, the modules appear in the filter navigator beneath Non-translated Items.

      Filter navigator showing non-translated items per translation table.

    4. From the application menu, open each module and export their lists to any supported format, such as Microsoft Excel.
      For example, select Non-translated Items > Translated Name/Fields, right click any column, and export the list.

      List of non-translated Translated Name/Fields.

    What to do next

    You can translate the fields in an external application and reload the translations as an update set. For more information see, Export and edit translation records. If you have a small number of strings to translate, you can translate them individually. For more information, see Translating individual UI strings.