Tooltips on table field level are not displayed correctly

[jthoerner-tso]

Hi, small issue.
If you add a tooltip with translation to a table field in BC24, this translation is currently not displayed in the UI, i.e. on the page.

I have found out that the problem is caused by the attribute ‘original’, which contains the file name of the .g.xlf.

Currently this line is generated like this.
<file datatype="xml" source-language="en-US" target-language="de-CH" original="General">

However, it only works if the line is set up like this:
<file datatype="xml" source-language="en-US" target-language="de-CH" original="General.g.xlf">

The other translations still work as expected. Maybe this is also a bug in my BC24 version..

[DanielNT]

Hi @jthoerner-tso, thanks for reporting the issue.

I think that your issue may be related to your VS Code extension for translation (I suppose that is AL Translation Center), not AL Translation Snippets itself.

I created a new project, using AL Language extension for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central v14.0.1108692 (pre-release), and last version of AL Translation Center (v2.6.2) with a table with one field that have a table tooltip.

The result was OK, as stated by the picture below, without the need of add "g.xlf":

I attach my test project below. Feel free to modify to replicate the issue.
General.zip

I suspected at first that the name "General" could be source of the issue (after seeing your modification), but at the moment, as I say, I need more information.

[jthoerner-tso]

Hi Daniel,
yes, this topic actually belongs to the AL Translation Center .

Thank you for the project. I tested your demo project with the latest version of AL Translation Centre in a BC24.4 environment, and it works as expected even without “g.xlf”.

Thank you for the project. I have tested your demo project with the latest version of AL Translation Center in a BC24.4 environment, and it works as you say, even without “g.xlf”.

Interestingly, for fields that are created via table extension, the tooltips do not seem to work without the addition of “g.xlf”.

I have extended your project to reflect this behavior. Please also feel free to try out the extended project.
General2.zip

[DanielNT]

I'm going to transfer the issue to the right repository, for keeping a eye on it.

Maybe an AL Extension bug? microsoft/AL#7790 (comment)

[DanielNT]

As stated in microsoft/AL#7790 (comment) is technically fixed at server side for BC24/25, and probably the logic of object extensions will be modified in the future.

I am going to close the issue for now. Thanks for your feedback.