Newbie. The language files

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Hello everyone.

just starting with EpiServer. In the Alloy sample site I see in Resouces/LanaugeFiles/propertyNames.xml

that file we create manually (not through the admin site)?

There are a lot of properties for different contenttypes. Do we create and populate this file manually as well?

and with the attribute '[CultureSpecific]' for a property in content type file definition we let know EpiServer that we have a version for a specific language for that property?

How EpiServer knows in what file to look the language versions for a property (in this case in propertynames.xml)?

thank you for the expanations.

#180744

Jul 24, 2017 18:42

valdis

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Hi,

Couple of answers:

files in Resources/LanguageFiles directory are created automatically as part of project creation via VS extensions
that directory contains Xml files for various localizable resources
part of the resources are content type property translations
EPiServer will ask to it's configured collection of localization providers (configurable via web.config file in <episerver.framework> element) specific resources in required language (Admin UI language current user is in)
and yes - if you add new content type and want to get those page or block properties translated in admin interface - you need to take care of that yourself and add specific resources under correct nodes in Xml file(s)
[CultureSpecific] attribute just tells EPiServer that concrete property of the content type is editable for all available languages - opposite of "shared property"- that's editable only for master language and read-only for all the other languages

I would recommend to go through globaliazation section in dev guide.

Aaaand of course answer about localization cannot be complete without IMHO a bit nicer alternative - Xml files are pretty clumsy to work with (especially for devs) that's why I created database driven strongly typed localization provider for EPiServer.

#180750

Jul 24, 2017 23:13