I rolled out a few improvements to WebTranslateIt this week: Autosave, Webhooks, new keyboard shortcuts…
Autosave
Autosave is a new option available in the translation toolbar.
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It’s turned off by default. When you turn it on, translations are automatically saved as you type them. No need to click on save or type the Ctrl+s
keyboard shortcut.
WebHooks
You can now setup a WebHook to a project on WebTranslateIt.
WebHooks are a way to tell WebTranslateIt to call a script on one of your own web servers whenever a translation was made and react in any way your want. WebHooks can be thought of as push notifications.
Setting up a WebHook is easy: in your project settings, a new “WebHook” section will let you enter the URL of your server to call.
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Once this is setup WebTranslateIt will call the URL provided whenever a translation is saved on your project.
For detailed and technical information, please visit the documentation section about WebHooks.
New Keyboard shortcuts
I really like keyboard shortcuts. It’s a great way to save time while translating. You can learn more about keyboard shortcuts by hitting the h
key anywhere in WebTranslateIt.
The two new keyboard shortcuts I added this week are really handy.
When editing a translation, the Tab
key will save the current translation and jump to the next one.
You can also save the current translation and jump to the previous one by using Shift + Tab
.
Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes
- Developer instructions can now be fully synced when synchronising a linguistic file
- PHP Array and PHP Define files now support developer instructions
- It is now possible to move a string from one file to another, from the “String Details” modal window.
- Adding a string from the web interface now supports Right to Left languages
- It is now possible to add a plural string from the web interface.
You can read more about all these improvements and bug fixes in the changelog.
I hope you will find these improvements useful. Thank you for using WebTranslateIt.