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

[Jane Sandberg]

Hi Linda,

I'm so glad to hear it!  Thanks for reporting back about those permissions
as well -- I never would have thought of those.

  -Jane

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 10:20 PM Linda Jansová <linda.jansova at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Jane, Jennifer and everyone else interested in translations,
>
> We have tried repeating the steps but to no avail.
>
> However, after digging a bit deeper into the issue, we have found out
> that there is a specific CREATE_TRANSLATION permission and also related
> UPDATE_TRANSLATION and DELETE_TRANSLATION permissions. Our admin account
> did not have these permissions granted by default and therefore only
> English showed up in the translation dropdowns within the web client.
> Adding the permissions to relevant permission groups (not only to the
> admin ones) has sorted the issue.
>
> So now everything seems to work as expected :-).
>
> Linda
>
> On 1/12/21 7:40 AM, Linda Jansová wrote:
> > 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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Jane Sandberg
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