Odoo view translation issue

Question

I am having a strange issue with odoo translation engine:

The translation works fine for all the fields, but not for the view: all the translated strings are field labels, but "string" attributes for view.xml tags remain untranslated.

view.xml:

                     <page name="public" string="Form 1">
                        <group>
                            <group>

....

                                    <field name="address_home_id"
                                           context="{'show_address': 1}"
                                           options='{"always_reload": True, "highlight_first_line": True}'
                                           string="Permanent Address"
                                    />

However, I do have those strings in both my.po file:

#. module: hr_mis
#: model:ir.ui.view,arch_db:hr_mis.view_employee_form
msgid "Form 1"
msgstr "ပုံစံ (၁)"

....

#. module: hr_mis
#: model:ir.ui.view,arch_db:hr_mis.view_employee_form
msgid "Permanent Address"
msgstr "အမြဲတမ်းနေရပ်လိပ်စာ"

and in the database:

Any idea what did I do wrong?

Eduardo Eduardo · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-09T20:07:34

See the post:

[https://github.com/odoo/odoo/issues/24534][1]

In resume, this Tab/Page string is read from Database, so remove --dev=xml from your runtime config:

The option -- dev xml is:

xml: read template qweb from xml file directly instead of database. Once a template has been modified in database, it will be not be read from the xml file until the next update/init.

So it means, you are not working with the database for the views. As the translations are stored in the database, it actually make sense. This option is to be used when you are actually developping on your views, to see the result directly.

Odoo view translation issue

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