I am totally new with Sitecore and one of my client told me she will create her website with Sitecore. She told me that she won't be able to translate url:
From: site.com/shoes/sneakers/
To: site.com/fr/chaussures/baskets/
She said she'll only be able to do: site.com/fr/shoes/sneakers/
Anyone is aware of a solution to that problem with Sitecore so we make sure we have translated URLs in French for a maximum SEO optimization?
All the best,
Alex
Item names can only be a single language, but you can use the Display Name instead as the URL.
To do so update the useDisplayName property of the linkprovider to true:
<linkManager defaultProvider="sitecore">
<providers>
<add name="sitecore"
...
useDisplayName="true" />
</providers>
</linkManager>
The display name can be translated to multiple languages allowing you to have different URLs per language.
Also be careful with language embedding. You may want to set this to always so en is also included otherwise it will throw Sitecore when visiting a french page and the visiting an en URL which does not have the language embedded. Sitecore will try to resolve the item in fr due to the existing lang=fr cookie.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/26929447/661447
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Currently I work an an app where the user can create products for a catalog. The status is, he can do this in one language, data gets send to the backend and saved. The next step would be to make this creation process ready for multiple languages e.g. english or french. The behaviour should be the following, he choses the language inside a drop down field and gets a form in the selected language.
The problems I encountered and my solution process till now:
1) How should the view handling be? Should I create a new fragment for every language and exchange the content? If Im correct that would mean I would need to destroy and create fragements for the languages, right? And then create them with a binded model again.
2) How should I handle the model/models? Should I create one model with the data they share e.g. creation date and create a model with language related attributes? That would be my solution right now.
Maybe you already did something similiar or have some thoughts about this, thanks for any help!
You should do neither of those things. There are mechanisms in place, generally referred to as i18n that help you with this process. UI5 help available here:
https://ui5.sap.com/sdk#/topic/df86bfbeab0645e5b764ffa488ed57dc
and
https://ui5.sap.com/sdk#/topic/5424938fc60244c5b708d71b50a0eee4
In summary, translations should be done using the i18n mechanisms and the oData logon language.
Logging into the application, assuming it's hosted on an SAP gateway or SCP / Launchpad, the user's current logon language will drive at least all standard SAP translatable texts like the labels returned from data elements in your oData services. The appropriate url parameter is sap-language=EN, but it's set automatically from the current browser settings. Generally, you don't have to worry about this.
The same browser settings drive which particular i18n file is loaded. This could be specific like en_US for American English, or fr for French.
If you code your app without any hard coded translations but always follow the rules in the links above, adding a language should be trivial.
These translations could probably be triggered programmatically via a dropdown as well but I have never tried that since it's extra steps for my users.
I'm not a big typo3 expert nor have I access to typoscript options at the typo3 instance I'm working with (It's a very big site and I don't have the authorization to do so). So I hope this question fits on stackoverflow (Please don't hate me if it does not, I'll happily post this on another site)
What I'm trying to achieve is:
My website has two possible translations (German and English). I see
that it's possible to switch languages during surfing through
clicking the "German"/"English"-Button
On the website are also informations about our staff (who may not be speaking german)
If one staff member doesn't speak german, I copy redundantly their english profile on the german translation mode (that it appears, because otherwise it doesn't - might be no good style, but it's better than not having them appear at all)
I'm not happy with these kind of redundancy since it means that I have to do the same action twice on the exactly same content. Does there exist a possibility in the backend of typo3 where I can set that the german translation shall be the exact same as the english content?
I hope my question is clear, thanks a lot for your help.
As you say you don't have access to typoscript templates etc, I guess you are not an integrator/developer in this project, but an editor.
Your only way to achieve an automatic "fallback" behaviour is asking the person who takes care of the site's configuration to set that up for you.
But if that's not possible, you can still use the "insert records" content element (german: "Datensatz einfügen") to avoid duplicate entries.
This content type is not in the wizard when you create a new content element. But you can create a text element and then change the type to "insert records". Now you can select another record which is then mirrored here:
You'll have a similar amount of work when setting it up, but you won't have redundant text, which is way better.
If this content type isn't available either, I would insist on the administrator enabling it for editors - it's very useful to maintain a site's content healthy.
Would be helpful to see your TypoScript configuration. Maybe theres something wrong with the sys_language_mode. Given that the sys_language_uid of english is 0 (which means its default language) and german is 1, the default behaviour should be, that german translations are shown, if available. If a translation is not available the default version of a content element is shown. However, you can change this behaviour with Typoscript:
config.sys_language_mode = content_fallback ; 5,3,1
This will set the content fallback of an content element (which is triggered if no translation exists) to sys_language_uid 5, if its not available in that language sys_language_uid 3 will be displayed etc.
Maybe your installation is set to
config.sys_language_overlay = hideNonTranslated
This will hide non-translated content-elements. Remove this entry to enable content fallback again.
You can always check the current Typoscript in the Template module via the TypoScript Object Browser. However, to really get help you need to share your TypoScript language configuration. The behaviour you describe is not the default behaviour, so its configured somewhere.
I am new to joomla and wanted to use JoomFish for multi-lingual support. Can anyone please let me know details of how can we use JoomFish to translate the site content. Also how can we translate the content of customly developed components / modules. Also how can we translate the static content in the components/modules i.e. the label which are used statically?
Can any one provide any reference which has a good understanding of doing the above mentioned things.
Regards,
Atul
Joomfish does not do any translation, all of it has to be entered by the admin. It takes a bit of configuration - language packs have to be installed, extension content elements need to be translated, etc. Your best bet is to install it on your site and go through the tutorials.
http://www.joomfish.net/en/documentation/tutorials
There is no shortcut that could easily be entered as an answer here.
i am creating a revised website for a firm that has an existing website. Many of the pages are the same topic and text with a new design. Should i use the same file paths as the prior site to avoid any drop in google or other search engine rankings
Here are some guidelines for a good start: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/best-practices-when-moving-your-site.html
Changing Urls is the last thing you want to do. Only consider it if there are no alternatives.
When ranking pages, search engines also consider incoming links, what sites they come from and what text they have in them. By changing your urls you effectively make all those outside links broken.
If you think that the website would benefit from changing file path (e.g., /about-us is always better than ?page_id=2), you should do the change and have an http 301 moved permanently redirect from old url to new url. Google will quickly update its index if you do it this way.
I'm just starting to evaluate joomla CMS as a tool to build out my personal site. I'd like to manage multiple sites/domains with one copy of joomla on one host. so I'll own mysite.com and myothersite.com, which will both point to the same host/joomla code. If I do this I need to be able to set which domain/site the content I add shows up on. For some sites the content will be on both for others it will be on only one. What would be ideal it to have some kind of filtering mechanism so I don't have to manually set where the content goes.
What would be ideal is for me to set tags on the content and each site can specify which taged content to show.
My last requirement is that I be able to have different pages on each site.
Is this possible or am I asking too much from a "free" CMS?
Thanks all
I don't know if there's a component that achieves what you're describing here. I use a multi-language component in some of my sites that shows translations, but it doesn't "suppress" articles that doesn't have references to a translation: it just says "No translations to this article". I know you're not asking for translations methods, but I think the Joomfish way of selecting content based in a chosen language would be what you wanted, but not based in languages, just domains.
The only component I know it would be able to suppress articles based in pre defined parameters (in its case the language), is the Joomfish's "Table Localization Plugin", but you need to be a Joomfish silver member paying $60 to Joomfish's developers.
You could write a component(see here for plugin documentation), that analyzing the domain, would suppress articles that shouldn't appear in that specific domain. But I think it's going yo be a lot of work. You would learn a lot of Joomla's architecture, though.
How Joomla displays its content (output) is controlled entirely by parameters. So if you can control what parameters are loading, you can create multiple displays per host
However, that may be overkill in this case. You can just easily hack your template. Just make it load a different menu for siteA and siteB. (The host is set in $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])
The menu on siteA could have a tagging component item, set to display articles tagged siteA.com. The siteB will have the same for its domain.
While there are extensions that will do what you describe (http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/core-enhancements/multiple-sites), Joomla is really designed for one site at a time. I've done setups where I use the same codebase for Joomla and manage it with version control, but I always end up launching multiple sites with individual databases.
However, I don't know of any CMS that inherently allows you to share articles across instances while keeping the data centralized. You may be looking at an extension (or your own customization) regardless of which platform you pick.
We had a similar problem with needing to share content across multiple Joomla! sites so we developed this extension: http://extensions.joomla.org/extension/simple-sharing
It is not very robust in terms of what it can share but it does let you share Articles across multiple sites and choose which sites and categories those articles get published into. I hope it works for you.
Thanks!