Multilingual Improvements for Drupal 8

MULTILINGUAL IMPROVEMENTS FOR

DRUPAL 8

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490Resolved Drupal 8

multilingual issues

310TODO Drupal 8

multilingual issues

Drupal CORE

Drupal 7 MULTILINGUAL

Drupal CORE

LOCALELanguages, foreign language website UI.


Drupal CORE

L10n UPAvoid tedious manual translation downloads.


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Drupal CORE


CONTENT TRANSLATION

Only for nodes, makes copies of nodes.


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Drupal CORE


CONTENT TRANSLATION



I18NMenus, taxonomy, field labels, views. Oh you also need i18n_views module; and webform_localization, and...

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Drupal CORE


CONTENT TRANSLATION




VARIABLEAPI for handling some of the configuration.Settings translations!

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Drupal CORE


CONTENT TRANSLATION




VARIABLEAPI for handling some of the configuration.Settings translations!

Entity translationFor Drupal Commerce for example. Oh you also need Title module!

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LANGUAGEBase services for all

modules dealing with data. Not just

multilingual.

FOUR PILLARS in DRUPAL 8



multilingual.

INTERFACEInterface

translation has built-in update

feature, improved usability.

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multilingual.

INTERFACEInterface



CONTENTField translation in built-in API for all entities. Content

translation module provides user

interface.

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multilingual.

INTERFACEInterface





interface.

CONFIGCommon

configuration system handles

blocks, views, field settings. Unified

translation.

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LANGUAGEBase services for all modules dealing with data. Not just multilingual.

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Language IS STEP ONE

NODES

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USERS

ALIASES

Language ASSIGNMENT

NODES

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TERMS

USERS

ALIASES

Language ASSIGNMENT

NODES

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TERMS

USERS

ALIASES

VIEWS

Language ASSIGNMENT

NODES

é

TERMS

USERS

ALIASES

VIEWS

Language ASSIGNMENT

SITE INFO

NODES

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TERMS

USERS

ALIASES

VIEWS

Language ASSIGNMENT

SITE INFO

LANGUAGE SELECTOR NOT ALWAYS EXPOSED

NODES

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TERMS

USERS

ALIASES

VIEWS

Language ASSIGNMENT

SITE INFO

LANGUAGE SELECTOR NOT ALWAYS EXPOSED

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FLEXIBLE Language SETUP

Language VISIBILITY

BLOCKS CAN SHOW/HIDE BASED ON LANGUAGE

VIEWS ALREADY HAS LANGUAGE FILTERING FEATURES FOR CONTENT LISTS

DRUPAL BUILT-IN PAGES ARE CONVERTED TO VIEWS

Language SELECTION

NAME TRANSLITERATION

ENGLISHCAN BE DELETED

LANGUAGE

DELETE ENGLISHFLEXIBLE SELECTION

BLOCK VISIBILITYVIEWS

FLEXIBLE CONFIGWIDER ASSIGNMENT

FIRST IN INSTALLER@

INTERFACE TRANSLATIONInterface translation has built-in update feature, improved usability.

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AUTOMATED DOWNLOADS

MODULE ENABLED AUTOMATICALLY IN FOREIGN INSTALL

NOT REQUIRED IF YOU WANT LANGUAGE ASSIGNMENT ONLY

AUTOMATED TRANSLATION DOWNLOADS

CENTRALIZEDTRANSLATION FILE

LOCATION

CUSTOMization TRACKING

CUSTOMization TRACKING

Customized translations are tracked

May be protected from community translation overwrites

import will not time out, reads in pieces

WHOLE NEW INTERFACE

TRANSLATE TO ENGLISH

INTERFACE TRANSLATION

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TRANSLATE TO ENGLISHWHOLE New INTERFACE

CUSTOM translation trackedCentralized file dir

auto-downloadseparate module

CONTENT TRANSLATIONField translation in built-in API for all entities. Content translation module provides user interface.

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ALL CONTENT ENTITIESARE SUPPORTED

INTEGRATED CONFIGURATION

TRANSLATIOn INTERFACE

TRANSLATION TABS ON CONtent

add translations for each language

possible to take different source language

Can edit “all language” values with permission

PROPERTYTRANSLATION IN THE

WORKS

UPGRADE PATHWILL BE CONTRIB

CORE SEARCH AND APIHAS LANGUAGE SUPPORT

NODE ACCESS APIHAS LANGUAGE SUPPORT

CONTENT TRANSLATION

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NODE ACCESS API SUPPORTEDSearch index as separate

Search APIs updated FOR ALL content entities

PER BUNDLE + FIELD + SUB-FIELD properties TODO

UPGRADE PATH

CONFIG TRANSLATIONCommon configuration system handles blocks, views, field settings. Unified translation.

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Entities

CONFIG VS. CONTENT

Entities

CONFIG VS. CONTENT

Content

NODES users

comments TERMS

contactmessages

menuitems

Entities

CONFIG VS. CONTENT

Content

NODES users

comments TERMS

contactmessages

menuitems

CONFIGURATION

views

vocabularies

CONTACTCATEGORIES

FIELDS

SITE INFO

USER MAILS

Entities

CONFIG VS. CONTENT

Content

NODES users

comments TERMS

contactmessages

menuitems

CONFIGURATION

views

vocabularies

CONTACTCATEGORIES

FIELDS

SITE INFO

USER MAILS

OTHERS

PATH ALIASES

MENUS

LANGUAGE TRACKEDON EACH CONFIG FILE

LANGUAGE OVERRIDESSTORED WITH CONFIG

FOR SHIPPED CONFIGURATION

LOCALIZE.d.oINTEGRATION TODO

FOR ANY CONFIGURATION

CONFIG TRANSLATION

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FULL TRANSLATION MODULEstandard translation tabs

config overridesworks for any config

core UI for shipped ONLY



multilingual.




multilingual.

INTERFACEInterface



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multilingual.

INTERFACEInterface





interface.

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multilingual.

INTERFACEInterface





interface.

CONFIGCommon

configuration system handles

blocks, views, field settings. Unified

translation.

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