[Evergreen-general] Adding a language to the translation feature in the web client

[Linda Jansová]

Hi Jennifer,

Thank you very much for sharing that Jane's steps have worked for you! 
We will repeat them and see what happens :-).

Linda

On 1/11/21 10:25 PM, Jennifer Pringle wrote:
> Hi Linda,
>
> The steps Jane lists are what we did to get French added as an option 
> to the drop downs in the admin interfaces to add translations.  It 
> also adds the language to the locale switcher in the upper right corner.
>
> For me, I have the staff client set to English (US) and I have English 
> (US), English (Canada), and French (Canada) available in both the 
> local switcher in the upper right and in the drop downs for the "Apply 
> Translations" pop up in the admin pages.  (I can't speak to what 
> displays in the drop down if I set my locale in the upper right to 
> something other than English (US) as we don't currently have things 
> set up to use different languages for the web client, just the OPAC.)
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Jennifer
>
>
> Quoting Linda Jansová <linda.jansova at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi Jane,
>>
>> Thank you! But it seems you mean the locale switcher in the upper 
>> right corner of the web client. I have actually had another 
>> translation dropdown on my mind - the one which enables you to add a 
>> new translation from within the web client. I have attached a 
>> screenshot with an example from Item Status Administration in Server 
>> Administration.
>>
>> I have double checked that Czech does not appear in the dropdown even 
>> when the web client as such is switched to English (in a way, it 
>> would make sense that you might want to translate to another 
>> language, not the one you are currently viewing the web client in; on 
>> the other hand, it is rather likely that you may wish to add a 
>> missing translation for the current language - it would also be clear 
>> which strings are missing and how the context is translated to make 
>> sure the translation is a good fit for a particular place in the web 
>> client). So the only translation option seems to be English, 
>> regardless of the interface language...
>>
>> Linda
>>
>> On 1/9/21 7:40 PM, Jane Sandberg wrote:
>>> Hi Linda,
>>>
>>> To get another entry in the dropdown, you will want to:
>>>
>>> 1)  Edit the locales array in 
>>> Open-ILS/src/eg2/src/environments/environment.prod.ts to include 
>>> 'cs-CZ'
>>>
>>> 2) Re-compile the Angular client by running the commands:
>>> cd Open-ILS/src/eg2
>>> ng build --prod
>>>
>>> 3) As the root user, run the command: make install
>>>
>>>   -Jane
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 7:09 AM Linda Jansová 
>>> <linda.jansova at gmail.com <mailto:linda.jansova at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    Hi,
>>>
>>>    We are on 3.5.1 and are trying to set up the translation feature
>>>    which
>>>    is now available directly in web client.
>>>
>>>    So far we can only see English as a language to which one can
>>>    translate.
>>>
>>>    How could we add Czech as another option in the dropdown?
>>>
>>>    Thank you in advance for any ideas!
>>>
>>>    Linda
>>>
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