# Ignition Translation - Import and Export Functions Available from Scripting

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-translation-import-and-export-functions-available-from-scripting/92523>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective, scripting\
**Created:** [June 28, 2024, 8:38am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-translation-import-and-export-functions-available-from-scripting/92523 "2024-06-28T08:38:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![alex.dunning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@alex.dunning](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/alex.dunning)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2024, 8:38am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-translation-import-and-export-functions-available-from-scripting/92523/1 "2024-06-28T08:38:37Z")

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Are the Import Terms and Export Terms that are available in Translation Manager, available from scripting?

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/0/8/0866e181f29c76cfdac84cdef8552fa09dffbcae.png)

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2024, 3:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-translation-import-and-export-functions-available-from-scripting/92523/2 "2024-07-01T15:43:16Z")

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No. In some 8.3.X release, I'd like to improve the backing model used for translation a bit, make it accessible to SDK users (third party module authors), and add some new system functions for interacting with bulk translations. But this won't happen immediately. However, the new configuration storage system in 8.3. **0** will put translations on disk, in a human and machine readable format, and have tools to interact with these config resources from scripting.

In other words, in 8.3.0 you definitely won't have `system.translate.import` (or equivalent) but you **will** have something like `system.config.add("translation-settings", someConfigObjectThatDescribesATranslationBundle)`.

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**Author:** ![Arnaud\_Declerck](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/arnaud_declerck/32/44872_2.png) [@Arnaud\_Declerck](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Arnaud_Declerck)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 11:09am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-translation-import-and-export-functions-available-from-scripting/92523/3 "2024-11-15T11:09:03Z")

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Hi @alex.dunning,

you will maybe have some interests in that one

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