# Get Translate Manager Terms for perspective?

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**Created:** [June 15, 2021, 2:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/get-translate-manager-terms-for-perspective/47792 "2021-06-15T14:39:23Z")\
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Not currently through an easy scripting function, but you can adapt the code I posted here:

> [@Perspective System.util.translate Poor/Inconsistent Performance](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-system-util-translate-poor-inconsistent-performance/45134/6):
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> The ‘round trip’ back and forth is probably not as much of a problem as that post makes it out to be, but… Yes, absolutely. Something like this in a script library should allow you to translate many terms at once, reasonably efficiently: def translate(terms, strict=False, locale=None): from com.inductiveautomation.ignition.gateway import IgnitionGateway from com.inductiveautomation.ignition.gateway.script import GatewaySystemUtilities package = IgnitionGateway.get().getLocalizationManager(…

The result of `loadFullPackage` is going to be a `TranslationPackage` object, which has a variety of useful methods:  
[https://files.inductiveautomation.com/sdk/javadoc/ignition81/8.1.1/com/inductiveautomation/ignition/common/i18n/translation/TranslationPackage.html](https://files.inductiveautomation.com/sdk/javadoc/ignition81/8.1.1/com/inductiveautomation/ignition/common/i18n/translation/TranslationPackage.html)

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