Creating Groups within the Bundle

What is a Group?

One of the fundamental problems with managing resource bundles across large projects is that individual resources often got lost in the vast number of translations. By creating groups within resources, RBManager makes it much simpler to manage the daunting number of translations. The resource bundle is like a tree with the files at the upper levels. Beneath the file level is the group level, and beneath that, the individual resources.

The only meta data that groups contain are name and comment. The name is a way of identifying the group from a list of groups, and the comment is a quick description about what the group contains.

Creating a Group

Like any other editing that affects the entire resource bundle, the creation of a group can not be done from the individual language file level. Two ways exist to create a group. The first is to select the base class at the top of the resource bundle tree, select the 'Groups' tab, and click the 'Create Group' button. The second way is to go to the 'Options' menu and select 'Add New Group'. The second method can be used no matter what your current view is on the lower right panel.

Once you have followed one of these two methods, the following dialog should appear:

Enter a name and comment for the group, and click on 'Create'. Now you have a group. You can add more groups now or at any time. You can also begin to create new resources under the new group as explained in the next step.

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