Multilingual sites in Drupal 7: New features, new possibilities by Grigory Naumovets (A presentation ar DrupalCamp Kyiv, June 3-4, 2011)

1. Multilingual sites in Drupal 7: New features, new possibilities Grigory Naumovets Kiev, Ukraine

19. Contexts are intended for per-meaning translatability Context: “May” as Long month name ( not “may be”) Context is a new feature; guidelines still need to be developed. So far, used inconsistently. Not supported by Javascript menu items and strings.

22. Now about content translation Enable multilingual support in content type properties: Looking for this in “Publishing options” is not really obvious

26. And now something really new… We need to use some contributed modules However, D7 has NO built-in interface for translatable fields  D7 core has built-in support for field languages!!! (via its new Field API) 

30. ‘ Title’ module: replace node title with a regular field

34. Enabling multilingual variables in i18n/D6: add their names ( site_name , site_footer , theme_settings , etc.) to the settings.php file $conf['i18n_variables'] = array( // Site name, slogan, mission, etc.. 'site_name', 'site_slogan', 'site_mission', 'site_footer', 'anonymous', // Different front page for each language 'site_frontpage', // Primary and secondary links 'menu_primary_links_source', 'menu_secondary_links_source', // Contact form information 'contact_form_information', // For theme variables, read more below 'theme_settings', 'theme_garland_settings', );

35. i18n/D7 does not work this way anymore Now multilingual variables are controlled via “Multilingial settings – Variables” menu (Depends on the new variable.module )

36. Multilingual variables A very convenient link to switch languages (especially if there is no language switcher in the admin theme)

38. Taxonomy terms Connect different terms as translations of each other: This option was available in D6, too – but it did not really work. Now (I hope) it should!