I'm trying to change the language of the backoffice of umbraco 7. I want to be able to change the language of the document type properties. In previous versions, I used to be able to name the property e.g #title and then add a dictionary item for the language that matched the logged in user. However, this doesn't seem to work anymore in the new version of umbraco. Furthermore, I would actually prefer a solution that took the language from the culture setting that I could set myself, rather then taking the language of the logged in user. Has anyone got any experience or insight into this?
Yes this used to be working in versions prior to version 7.
I have not been testing this myself in 7.2 though so I don't know if it's something that has been added back in. - What exact version of Umbraco 7 are you using currently? If it's lower than 7.2.x then it might be an idea to try and see if it works in a clean installation of 7.2?
I don't see how matching the language with the system culture settings rather than the logged in culture settings would be a good idea - I personally don't like that approach since I'm then forced to look at a UI translated into danish...I very very much prefer english in the UI since there are so many words that don't make sense in danish / bad translations.
Just my point of view about it - But I suppose it might be possible to have a look at the culture settings in the web.config file maybe? Don't know what it would take to override Umbraco's logic though.
Actually I got it working using the dictionary items as it was working in previous versions
some the languages are not supported in this feature - and the language I wanted was one of them (Chinese) - I ended up having to "hack" it slightly by changing my Chinese config lang file to the danish culture setting
then adding danish as a language and adding the Chinese translations against the danish language .. it works so the language is changed to the logged in user which is fine - I would have liked to find someway to change the global language in the web.config but that's not a real problem.
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Hi,
I'm trying to change the language of the backoffice of umbraco 7. I want to be able to change the language of the document type properties. In previous versions, I used to be able to name the property e.g #title and then add a dictionary item for the language that matched the logged in user. However, this doesn't seem to work anymore in the new version of umbraco. Furthermore, I would actually prefer a solution that took the language from the culture setting that I could set myself, rather then taking the language of the logged in user. Has anyone got any experience or insight into this?
Thanks
Hi James
Yes this used to be working in versions prior to version 7.
I have not been testing this myself in 7.2 though so I don't know if it's something that has been added back in. - What exact version of Umbraco 7 are you using currently? If it's lower than 7.2.x then it might be an idea to try and see if it works in a clean installation of 7.2?
I don't see how matching the language with the system culture settings rather than the logged in culture settings would be a good idea - I personally don't like that approach since I'm then forced to look at a UI translated into danish...I very very much prefer english in the UI since there are so many words that don't make sense in danish / bad translations.
Just my point of view about it - But I suppose it might be possible to have a look at the culture settings in the web.config file maybe? Don't know what it would take to override Umbraco's logic though.
/Jan
Hi Jan,
Actually I got it working using the dictionary items as it was working in previous versions
then adding danish as a language and adding the Chinese translations against the danish language .. it works so the language is changed to the logged in user which is fine - I would have liked to find someway to change the global language in the web.config but that's not a real problem.
Thanks anyway for your reply
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