# General Translation Platform: Reviewing and editing translations
URL: https://generaltranslation.com/en-US/docs/platform/dashboard/guides/reviewing-translations.mdx
Docs index: https://generaltranslation.com/llms.txt
Description: How to review translations, make manual edits, and compare locales in the Dashboard.

Use the Dashboard editor to inspect generated translations, compare target locales side by side, and make precise corrections without starting a new translation job.

## Basic review workflow [#basic-review-workflow]

1. Open your project in the Dashboard.
2. Go to the **Translations** page.
3. Choose **Files** or **Components**.
4. Select or search for the content you want to review.
5. Choose the branch and locale(s).
6. Edit translations inline as needed.
7. Use annotations, history, download, and source visibility tools as needed.



## Browse and find translation content [#browse-find-translation]

**Choose one or more locales** to view (in the top right). Component, keyed-file, and structured-file views can compare selected translations side by side. Raw file views show one target locale at a time.

Use **Search** to filter the current view by:

- File name
- Component name
- Key
- Source text
- Translated text

Select between two views (in the top left):

- **Files** for Markdown, JSON, gettext, Apple String Catalogs, Lottie, SVG, and other file-based content.
- **Components** for React and JSX projects where strings live in UI components.

From any project page, you can also press `⌘K` on macOS or `Ctrl+K` on Windows to search across files and components. Search results link directly to the matching entry.

## Edit translations inline [#edit-translations-inline]

Click a translation cell to edit it. Edits are drafts until you click **Save**.

Use inline editing when you want to make precise manual changes to the existing translation.

- JSON, YAML, and Apple `.strings` files show one row per key.
- PO and POT sources show each gettext entry and the target locale's plural forms.
- Android `strings.xml` files show strings, string-array items, and the target locale's plural quantities. Resources marked `translatable="false"` are omitted.

Use **Raw** to inspect the underlying content. The Raw view is editable for JSON, YAML, `.strings`, and `.xcstrings` translations, and read-only for PO, POT, and Android files. Saving an `.xcstrings` edit updates only the selected target locale in the catalog. SVG files open in the raw editor directly and must remain well-formed XML. Use **Search in file** to find text within the open file.

*Note: inline edits update the current translation and do not create a new entry in version history. A new version history entry is created only when source edits are sent for translation.*

## Use file tools to review [#use-file-tools]

File tools help you inspect, compare, and export translated content. They are located underneath an open filename.

Click **History** to inspect translations from previous source versions. Use it to:

- Compare translation state across source versions
- Open a prior source version and its translations
- Confirm when a translated file changed

History loads in pages for files with many versions. Search by tag, message, or version ID, then press `Enter` or leave the search field to apply it across the full history. Click **Load more** to fetch older results.

You can also:

- **Download** translated output
- Show or hide source content
- Filter by [annotation labels](/docs/platform/dashboard/guides/adding-annotations)

Lottie downloads are complete binary `.lottie` files with the translated animation reassembled into the original bundle.

SVG downloads are UTF-8 XML documents.

## Track review with annotations [#track-review-annotations]

Annotation indicators appear inside each cell: click to open the annotation panel for that entry and locale. Read more about [Annotations](/docs/platform/dashboard/guides/adding-annotations).

## Next steps

- /docs/platform/dashboard/guides/defining-context-for-translations
- /docs/platform/dashboard/guides/adding-annotations
- /docs/platform/dashboard/guides/using-ask-ai
- /docs/platform/dashboard/guides/managing-billing

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