Translating Content in eZ Publish
Friday 31 August 2007 6:00:00 am
The best way to get an overview of translations for a content object is to use the Translations window in the Administration Interface. This window and associated switch are only available on multilingual eZ Publish sites (which is configured during installation). There is no equivalent window in the Website Interface.
Translations window
The Translations window shows the languages that exist for the published version of an object. The currently selected translation is displayed in bold characters. The top of the window shows the number of translations. From the Translations window, you can edit a translation by clicking on the language's corresponding edit icon on the right. Clicking on a translation name, such as "German" in the above screenshot, will reload the page to display the selected translation in the Preview window. When either one or several languages are selected using the checkboxes on the left, clicking the Remove selected button deletes the selected translations.
You can also set the main language for an object. Main languages cannot be deleted (unless you change the site's main language). When the checkbox at the bottom of the window is marked, and an object does not exist in any of the site languages and is always available, the system will use the object's main language to display its contents.
Note that you cannot add new translations through the Translations window, as it only displays information about existing translations and enables you to access them.