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Alastair Gordon 7 posts 107 karma points

Mar 27, 2019 @ 15:38
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Umbraco 8 - Custom Dashboard - Language Settings
Hi,

This I suspect is going to be a total Newbie question, which is fair because although I have been developing FOR a couple of Umbraco 7 sites, this is the first time I have deployed/developed a brand new Umbraco site.

One of the tools I need for Admins of this site will be to set percentage surcharge figures onto prices being returned from an external webservice. As a result, I wanted to add a new top Section called 'Surcharges' (e.g 'Content Media Settings ... Surcharges).

When I add this to the package.manifest for the Surcharges folder in App_Plugins, nothing appears:
```
"sections": [ { "alias": "surchargeSection", "name": "Surcharges"}],
```
I can however get a link to appear within the Content section using the following:
```
"dashboards": [{
  "alias": "Surcharges",
  "view": "/App_Plugins/Surcharges/surcharges.html",
  "sections": [ "content" ],
  "weight": 100
} ]
```
However, this renders out the word 'Surcharges' with additional [] brackets:

Anyone got a clue how to get a new Section or at the very least how to get rid of the square brackets?!!

Thanks in advance!
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Marc Goodson 2155 posts 14408 karma points MVP 9x c-trib

Mar 27, 2019 @ 20:59
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Hi Alastair

There is some documentation here: https://our.umbraco.com/Documentation/Extending/Language-Files/Language-Files-For-Packages/

about adding 'language files' for packages,

With a custom section etc in the backoffice, the name is used as a 'key' to look up the relevant translation of a name to display in the appropriate language for the current user.

So if you create a folder called 'Lang' in your /app_plugins/mycustomsection folder

and in there add a file called en-us.xml

(the name of the file matches the language code of the user, en-us is usually the default)

and in this file and the following xml:
```
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<language alias="en" intName="English (US)" localName="English (US)" lcid="" culture="en-US">
  <area alias="sections">
    <key alias="Surcharges">Surcharges</key>
  </area>
</language>
```
then you should 'lose the square brackets'

regards

marc
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Alastair Gordon 7 posts 107 karma points

Apr 01, 2019 @ 10:54
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Hi Marc,

Thanks for the response. It's still stuck with [] though!

So, I've now got a folder structure like:

The package.manifest looks like:
```
{ "dashboards": [ { "alias": "Surcharges", "sections": ["settings"] } ] }
```
and the en-US.xml file is:
```
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<language alias="en" intName="English (US)" localName="English (US)" lcid="" culture="en-US">
  <area alias="sections">
    <key alias="Surcharges">Surcharges</key>
  </area>
</language>
```
and I still get:

Ideally I'd like a whole section up here:

But that can wait... ;)
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Warren Buckley 2106 posts 4836 karma points MVP 7x admin c-trib

Apr 01, 2019 @ 12:09
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Hi Alastair
Marc is close but the key's are slightly wrong

https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/blob/v8/dev/src/Umbraco.Web.UI/Umbraco/config/lang/en_us.xml#L2119-L2130

So the area with the alias sections needs to change as following
```
<area alias="dashboardTabs">
```
Then that should work.

Cheers,
Warren :)
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Alastair Gordon 7 posts 107 karma points

Apr 01, 2019 @ 12:20

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Thanks Warren! Much appreciated! :D

Thanks also to Marc for getting me closer than I was before his original reply!

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Umbraco 8 - Custom Dashboard - Language Settings