What is a translation?

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Definition

When creating a page group, the creator chooses the language in which to create it. However, if the page group is used by a multi-lingual audience, it may need to be available in different languages.

You can make a page group available in a different language by creating a translation of the page group. Once you have created a translation in a particular language, content contributors can add content in that language.

Note: Before you can create a translation for a particular language, the application messages for that language must have been installed. For information about this, see the Oracle Application Server Portal Configuration Guide.

When you create a translation, the content of the page group is not translated for you. A translator must log on to the page group, setting the language accordingly, and edit and translate the information in the page group. The following list shows which information translators may want to translate:

• Category display names and images

• Perspective display names and images

• Page display names, descriptions, and images

• Page parameter display names and descriptions

• Item display names, descriptions, keywords, URLs, files, text, and images

• Attribute display names

• Custom item and page type display names, descriptions, and images

• Style names

To view a page group in a particular language, users simply have to set the portal language to the appropriate language, either when logging on, or in the Set Language portlet. Numeric and date information is displayed in the appropriate format, and lists are sorted in the appropriate order for the chosen language. If a user chooses a language for which a translation has not yet been created, the page group is displayed in the default language (that is, the language in which the page group was originally created).

Notes

• When editing the information in a page group, any changes that are language-specific (that is, changes to any of the translatable information listed above) are applied only to the translation associated with the user's browser language. Any changes that are not language-specific, for example object names that are only used internally, are applied to all translations, including the default.

• When adding new information to a page group, the information is added to the translation associated with the user's current language setting. If the language is not the page group's default language, the information is also added for the default language. When users view the page group in the default language, they will see the new information in the language in which it was added, until it is translated into the default language.

• Deleting an object from a page group deletes all translations of the object and deletes all documents related to the object. For example, say you have a page group with a default language of English and a French translation. If you delete the French translation of a category, the English category is also deleted, as are all items assigned to the category, regardless of language. Deleting the translation itself deletes the content in only the translation language.

Related Help Topics

Concepts:

• What is a page group?

Next Steps:

• Edit Page Group: Translations

Additional Information

On Portal Center:

For more information go to the documentation section of Portal Center.

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