Unable to create translation from "Upload Document" - Monolingual base language file (file does not exist)

[Kentoseth]

Describe the issue

So firstly I would like to say that I commend and thank you for making this wonderful software and allowing people to use it gratis for Libre projects.

However, in order to translate non-dev translations (like a book or document) is needlessly complex and has resulted in what I think is a bug:

I was trying to upload a new component in my Project via the "upload document" option.

matn-mod.txt

(attached document is a .txt file)

The first page allows me to upload the document but the next step forces me to "Specify configuration manually", without being able to proceed without choosing this:

Now I proceed to the bug below.

I already tried

• I've read and searched the documentation.
• I've searched for similar issues in this repository.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Go to 'create new translation component'
2. upload matn-txt file
3. choose manual configuration option
4. in manual configuration, fill in necessary details
5. for "filemask" I used: *.txt
6. for "Monolingual base language file" I used: matn-mod.txt
7. Error: "File does not exist."

Expected behavior

I expected that the file would be found as I uploaded it. I thought maybe the '-' is an issue, so I also tried "matnmod.txt" as an uploaded file and then added in "Monolingual base language file" as "matnmod.txt" with the same error.

Screenshots

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Exception traceback

None. This is on hosted weblate.

How do you run Weblate?

weblate.org service

Weblate versions

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Weblate deploy checks

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Additional context

I would suggest simplifying the Document translate option. It is too complex for non-technical users and they would likely give up when attempting to fill in the manual config details.

[nijel]

The translate document workflow is indeed a bit clumsy. The uploaded document is stored in the internal repository and then normal configuration flow is started. In your case, the autodetection fails (because it doesn't look for txt files), and provides no clue how to continue.

[Kentoseth]

Thanks for the quick response.

Is there another (text) document format I can use instead of .txt that might resolve this?

[nijel]

The issue is not in the txt formats, but rather in the setup - you need to manually guess the filemask - it is <component_slug>/*.txt, monolingual base file should be <component_slug>/<source_language_code>.txt.

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[razor313]

I have the same issue but with Android format!

I uploaded documents stored in the internal repository (local:)

[nijel]

@razor313 Please describe what you did in a separate issue.