The ACTIVE CM allows you two connect one or more sites together in a multi-language grouping known as a translation set. Once the sites are linked together, the publication of information on one site triggers events and translation requirements on the other sites. In this way you can manage your multi-language content across multiple sites, ensuring that all sites stay current and are translated when content changes.
There are a number of components of the user interface that differ when multi-language functionality is being used.
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When multi-language is implemented on a site, the Page Editor displays an additional tab - the Translation tab. The settings on this tab control how the page gets translated from another page, or to another page, depending on whether the page is on your primary language or secondary language site.
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Workflows now contain additional steps and workflow emails. For example: when a page is set to require translation on the secondary site before it can be published, publishing the page will display a Pending Translation message, indicating that it cannot be published until the translation has been completed and published.
There is also a Translation Required email that gets sent to the content providers for the secondary site, indicating which pages require translation.
When child pages are created on the primary site, and the parent pages have already been linked between the primary and secondary sites, a child page is created automatically on the secondary site and is placed into Draft mode.
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Multi-language buttons and labels are displayed in View mode only and for the following page types only:
Application Form
Calendar
Login
Photo Gallery
Search
Survey
Other page types were reviewed and did not require changes as they only display content added by users.
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In addition to page template changes in the Design Package, updates to the section menu files must also be made. These updates place a toggle button in the bottom area of the section menu. This buttons allows you to flip back and forth from the current page to the translated version of that page on the secondary site.
The process of creating and publishing your site content contains additional steps when working in a multi-language environment. The table below provides an example of the process of creating content on a primary language site and translating it on a secondary language site.
Assumptions:
The primary site is set to require translation before its content can be published
There is one primary language site and one secondary language site
The sites have been configured in a translation set and the Home pages have been linked
|
Step |
Action taken on Primary site |
Action on Secondary site |
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1 |
Add textual content on English home page and Save.
Status: Draft |
No action occurs on the secondary site.
Status: Draft |
|
2 |
Edit the text of the Home page and publish.
Status: Pending Translation |
No action occurs on the secondary site but it now requires translation.
Status: Draft |
|
3 |
None |
Complete translation of the Home page from the Primary site and Publish.
Status: Published |
|
4 |
Home Page is automatically published. It was pending translation and once the translation was completed and published on the secondary site, this site's page automatically got published.
Status: Published |
None
Status: Published |
|
5 |
Create a General Content child page on the Home page of the primary site and add some draft textual content.
Status: Draft |
A general content child page with the same name is automatically created on the secondary site and is set to Draft mode.
Status: Draft |
|
6 |
Publish general content child page on primary site.
Status: Pending Translation |
None
Status: Draft |
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7 |
None |
Complete translation of general content child page and publish.
Status: Published |
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8 |
General content child page is automatically published the minute the page that is associated with it is translated and published.
Status: Published |
None
Status: Published |