Hi James I've not done much with the help files but, given the fact that the help format changed between versions 3 and 4 I suspect that there's no chance that you can back port the files between versions.
You don't need to worry about the ALT file - so long as you stop all object servers before you start messing with label files then the ALT file will be empty. Sadly, you can't copy the AX 4 label file back to AX 3 (I've tried) as Microsoft have added some extra characters in at the beginning of the file that makes it non-portable (I even tried removing them with no joy). Have you thought about creating a version 3 format XPO from AX 4 containing all the labels instead and then importing that into version 3? You'll need to write some code to generate that (or email me direct as I have already done this) but it's a relatively simple process and makes moving labels from AX 4 to AX 3 really easy. Malcolm Burtt Touchstone Group People - Partnership - Solutions Malcolm From: Axapta-Knowledge-Village@yahoogroups.com [mailto:axapta-knowledge-vill...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of James Flavell Sent: 26 March 2009 02:33 To: Axapta-Knowledge-Village@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Axapta-Knowledge-Village] Replacing label file in AX3.0 Hi everyone I want to setup a Chinese label file and use in AX3.0 My understanding is I can take one of the existing label files that I dont use and put Chinese words in it and then just rename the label file to a spare language I have in my license Example: Copy en-us ald file Translate Rename translated ald to en-gb (en-gb is my spare language in my license) Start AX with en-gb as the language Apart from the ald is there other files that need translation? I can see there are other files but believe I do not need to do anything to them: ALT - Temp labels AHD - Online Help Data File KHD - Kernel Help Data File. This one I am not sure...if this is not translated it means kernel errors etc will still be in English is it? ADD - Developer Help File Has anyone tried taking the AX4/2009 chinese label files and rename and put in AX3.0. Is it possible? Is there a lot of rework required due to different label ids etc? Could the same be done for the AHD,KHD and ADD files from AX4/2009? Thanks again everyone James
