Multilingual Website Content

[terry_tao]

Hi, All,

I am fresher of Alfresco WCM.

I meet a question about multilingual website content described as following:
As i planed, i will use one web forms to create website content with several languages, such as English, French, Dutch…
But i only want to input website content one time and then translate to other languages.
for example, i input content with english, then translate english content to French/Dutch content.

Would you tell me whether Alfresco WCM has translation functionality?

I found some functionality in web forms, such as make multilingual, Add Translation, Add Translation Without Content, Manage Multilingual Content etc.

I couldn't understand them. would you please explain it for me? or other materials to introduce it.

Thanks in advance.

Terry

[kvc]

Terry:


The features you are referring to are for Multi-lingual spaces.  These spaces are used to store collection of translated documents, for example, different translations of a Microsoft Word document, where each document has to live as it own separate binary asset.

For XML you are creating in a Web Project, translation do not live in separate XML documents (though they can), but rather as separate sections within a single XML.  Key to enabling translation is creating a custom workflow that routes the XML serially to a list of translators (you can also create a custom workflow to send out to a 3rd party translation management firm).  Once an XML has been routed to all those people who need to edit and translate the copy, multiple templates can be applied against the XML to generate each foreign-language rendition in an appropriate folder location (using output paths). 

Alfresco does not provide any specific translation assistance or translation memory capabilities - what we do support is the business process surrounding the content authoring and translation process.

Hope that helps.


Kevin

[thinkthing]

Thanks Kevin to confirmed that Alfresco does supports multilingual contents. Do you have any user guide to show what you had explained ? It's somehow very confuse.

Thanks !

[dlsap]

i am interested in this too.  right now, there is nothing to store multilingual content in a web project website.  only spaces.  on version 3.1 enterprise.