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  • Graham 21 posts 51 karma points
    Nov 09, 2010 @ 23:23
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    Multilingual Document Type Tabs and Properties

    I'm creating a multi region, multilingual site.

    Each region will have a number of languages, but the same document types will be used throughout the site.

    The client has asked if it would be possible to have the admin UI available in the target language. I understand there is support for some languages for the UI, but this post is about how I could set up mutilingual Tabs and Properties on my Document Types.

    So for example if I have a Document Type called Product. It has the following tabs and properties:

    Properties Tab: ManuName, PageTitle, MetaDescription, MetaKeywords etc.

    Text tab: PageHeading, PageText, PageSummaryText etc.

    Multimedia tab: ProductImage1, ProductImage2, ProductVideo etc.

    When a CMS user is logged in to fill out for example the German, these tabs and properties are going to be fairly meaningless (unless they can speak English). So what would be nice is that when I create the Document Type, I give translations of these tabs so that the German CMS user can understand what it is they are entering.

    Does anyone know a way of achieving that, without creating copies of all my Document Types in all languages?

  • Stefan Kip 1614 posts 4131 karma points c-trib
    Nov 09, 2010 @ 23:50
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    Yes, this is possible as far as I know (we talked about this @ the last Benelux meetup), by using the dictionary, but I'm not sure how...

    If I remember correctly, Ron Brouwer (http://our.umbraco.org/member/4441) talked about this.

  • Graham 21 posts 51 karma points
    Nov 09, 2010 @ 23:59
    Graham
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    That would be awesome if you're right - is there a way of contacting him directly?

  • Stefan Kip 1614 posts 4131 karma points c-trib
    Nov 10, 2010 @ 00:22
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    Twitter? I posted the url to his member page... I'm not going to give you his e-mailaddress and I guess you'll understand.

    Else you can contact Axendo (he works there)/Martijn Beumers

  • Graham 21 posts 51 karma points
    Nov 10, 2010 @ 11:28
    Graham
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    Thanks for this. I'm new to Twitter (just signed up this morning so I can contact him) and I can't work out how to send him a message yet but I'm sure I'll work it out eventually!

  • Michael Latouche 504 posts 819 karma points MVP 4x c-trib
    Nov 10, 2010 @ 11:46
    Michael Latouche
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    Hi Graham,

    It is indeed possible by using the dictionary. More information can be found on this wiki page: http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/how-tos/how-to-localize-umbraco-backend-document-types

    Cheers,

    Michael.

  • Stefan Kip 1614 posts 4131 karma points c-trib
    Nov 10, 2010 @ 11:49
    Stefan Kip
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    Nice!

  • Graham 21 posts 51 karma points
    Nov 10, 2010 @ 11:49
    Graham
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    Thanks Mike! You're a star!

  • Michael Latouche 504 posts 819 karma points MVP 4x c-trib
    Nov 10, 2010 @ 11:57
    Michael Latouche
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    You're welcome :-)

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