Programmatically Added Entries Not Showing Up

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Hi,

so I’ve got some code that goes through some external assets, adds the entries to the database, and then assigns the newly added entry to a new asset’s localized string.

This is all working fine, except one really annoying issue: after the export step, the table is full of keys, but shows no values.

If I close the editor and relaunch, the values are in the string table.

Is there some way to make the tables refresh properly without restarting the editor?

2

Can you show the script? Does the table update if you close the table window and reopen it or does it have to be an editor restart?

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public static LocalizedString UpdateOrAddStringToGenerated(string value, string id)
    {
        var tableCollection = LocalizationEditorSettings.GetStringTableCollection(Singleton.GeneratedTableName);
        StringTable table = GetGeneratedTable();

        foreach (var kvp in table)
        {
            if (kvp.Value.Key == id)
            {
                kvp.Value.Value = value;
                return new LocalizedString(Singleton.GeneratedTableName, id);
            }   
        }

        table.AddEntry(id, value);
        Debug.Log("added: " + value + " to loc database");
        return new LocalizedString(Singleton.GeneratedTableName, id);

    private static StringTable GetGeneratedTable()
    {
        var tableCollection = LocalizationEditorSettings.GetStringTableCollection(Singleton.GeneratedTableName);
        return tableCollection.GetTable("en") as StringTable;
    }
    }

These are the two relevant methods. As for when it shows up, it will only update after I do a full editor restart. Merely reopening the table doesn’t display the inserted text

4

When you add a new entry to the table call EditorUtility.SetDirty on the table and it’s shared table data asset.

5

Ah, ty, that seems to have done it. I was setting the shared table data as dirty in a different method, but not the table. Once I did that, it started updating correctly in editor

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