Features

Key Features:

• Based on the concept of a "Translations Set".
  • The main entity in KM FasTrans is a Translation Set. This is the set of items of the same type (articles, banners, categories,..) that are translations of the same content.
  • The Translation-Set contains details of the constituent elements, such as the item state, the time it was created, and so on., and also contains details of the set itself as the set status (Complete, Incomplete, Modified).
• One place integrated Language Management.
  • Everything related to languages (installed site, installed admin, content, overrides, translations) can be done and must be done from KM FasTrans. The Joomla Language Manager is disabled by the KMFasTrans installation process.
• Automatic preparation of site for multilanguage.
  • One click preparation of the site with the automatic creation of the default Menu, Menu Item, Module and Root Content Category for language 'All'.
• At a glance view of sets of translations and its items. 
  • One screen view of all sets and translations items of a type (articles, banners,...). You can even change the state of every item from this screen, change the status of the set and access to New/Edit screen and Set Details screen. Please click Screenshots tab to view some of these screens.
• Support of all translatable content.
  • All Joomla content that can be tagged by language is supported. This includes Articles, Banners, Categories, Contacts, Menus and Menu Items, Modules (all types), Newsfeeds and Weblinks.
• Front end article editing.
  • When you make a change to an article in Joomla frontend it will be propagated to KMFasTrans. This means that if the article was in a translations set the set will be marked as 'modified' and you will see the details of the modification in the set details screen. The same applies if the changes are made in Joomla back end native editor.
• Article level language switching.
  • As it is known, in Joomla 2.5 you can only switch languages at the menu item level. For example if you have a Spanish menu item that shows a list of articles, when you switch to another language, such as English, if both menu items are associated, you will see the same list of articles in English. However, if you are viewing an article from that list, say in Spanish, when language changes, for example to English, you will not see the same article in English but you will see the list of articles in English.
  • To fix this behavior, the KMFT Language Switcher module uses both, association of Menus and association of Items. For the switching function to work properly it must be ensured that both the menu leading to article as the article itself are associated. In KMFasTrans PRO both associations are made automatically when you create a translation.
  • Joomla 3.x provides article level switching, but if the language of your article (or the category to wich the article belongs) is 'All' then you still need the KMFT Language Switcher module because the native Joomla Language Switcher module does not switch elements whose language is 'All'.
• Management of Translations Sets.
  • A Translations Set is created when you pair at least two items, for instance, two articles with the same content, one in English and the other in Spanish. This can be done manually (clicking the assign icon) or automatically (when creating an item in the translations edit screen). The status of a Translations Set just created will be 'Not completed (unless there are two languages only). When you have added as many items to the Translations Set as published content languages, the translations set status will change to 'Completed'.If you modify any item of the set the set status will become 'Modified'. You can manually change the status of the set from 'Modified' to 'Completed'.
• Translations from any language to any language.
  • You don´t need to select one specific language as the 'from' language to make a translation. You can choose any language as the 'from' language and you can do it at any time when you are editing or creating an item of a translation set.

• Create/Edit translation items forcing Joomla rules.
  • You can create new items (or edit existing ones) that are translations of some item of same type and different language. In doing so, you can copy all the options of the source item, except those that are language-dependent, because KM FasTrans will force to meet the rules established by Joomla for a multilingual site. For example, the content assigned to each category must be in the same language as the category, or all menu items created on a specific menu must be in the same language or language 'All', etc.
  • When translating an element, such as a menu item, KMFasTrans will show by default the known translations of all the elements needed, like the menu to which the menu item belongs, the article to which it leads etc. So you can translate an item with a minimum of clicks.
  • When you create a new item, the set of translations will be updated automatically to reflect the existence a new item in the set. If this new item is the last one needed to complete the set, the set status will change to 'Completed'. Joomla item associations will be automatically created.
• Automatic Item Associations.
  • When you are creating a translation item (Category, Article, Menu Item,...) you don't have to waste yor time searching for the item in each language that has to be associated with the one being created. KM FasTrans will do it automatically for you. No mistakes or omissions.
• Language level permissions.
  • KM FasTrans uses native Joomla access rights management to set authorization levels in the creation or editing of translations, and also introduces a new level of access permissions language specific. So you can define groups of users with access to a specific language or only a limited set of them.
• Translations Suggestions.
  • When you create or edit an item translation, you have the possibility of obtaining an automated translation of selected content with the click of a button, using the configured Translation Service. This way you will have a base or suggestion to work on to finalize the content.
• Inconsistencies Detection.
  • The detection of inconsistencies allows detecting potential mistakes that can occur when creating a multi-language site, that you will discover as inconsistencies of its elements.
  • An element has self inconsistencies when one of its parameters is not consistent in the context of the element. For example, an article in English language whose category is in Spanish.
  • An element has translation inconsistencies when one of its parameters is not consistent with respect to the parameters of the source of the translation in the 'Reference Language'. For example, an article in Spanish language whose category is not the Spanish translation of the category in English language of the article source of the translation in the 'Reference Language'(in this case English).
  • With the detection of inconsistencies enabled the Translations Dashboard screen will show the current 'Reference Language' and will signal all items that contain inconsistencies.
  • A website that does not contain inconsistencies provides assurance that all that has been translated is consistent and will have the same behavior in any language.
• Associations Synchronization.
  • The synchronization of associations between KMFasTrans and native Joomla consists in associating elements in a set of translations of KMFasTrans when they are associated in Joomla and vice versa, associating the elements in Joomla when they are associated in KMFasTrans. With this feature associations of elements are always synchronized regardless of where the association originates, either Joomla or KMFasTrans. It is also possible to 'import' Joomla associations into sets of translations and vice versa in a single cycle using an specific process for that purpose.
  • In Joomla 2.5 KMFasTrans associations synchronization is only possible for menu items.

To learn more about KM FasTrans, please review the documentation.

Plugins

Plugins:

KM FasTrans supplies a System Plugin that fulfills several functions:

• Forces the language to be a required option for menus.
  • By doing so, you assign a language to each menu, which facilitates control of the language should have the menu items belonging to that menu. If the menu language is assigned to 'All', all menu items will be assigned to the language 'All'. If the menu is assigned to a specific language other than 'All', all menu items will be assigned to the same language as the menu, or to the language 'All'. This is one of the rules that KM FasTrans forces to comply with when creating or editing an item translation.
• Disable Joomla Language Manager.(KMFasTrans versions 1.2.0 and higher).
  • Once KMFasTrans component is installed, all Language Management functions can be and should be performed by the component.

• Provides an option to disable language specific permissions management.(KMFasTrans versions 1.2.0 and higher).
  • This option allows you to disable the language permissions functionality. Normally you will have this option enabled. It is used only in certain circumstances under the direction of the KMFasTrans support group.

• Interface between the front end and KMFasTrans.(KMFasTrans versions 1.3.2 and higher).
  • This plugin is responsible for propagating changes to Articles made on the front end to KMFasTrans. From version 1.4.0 it is also responsible for inconsistencies detection on Joomla native backend and frontend.

This plugin is necessary for the KM FasTrans component to function properly. Please make sure that this plugin is enabled.

Modules

Modules:

KM FasTrans supplies the following modules:

• KMFT Language Switcher module.
  • The KMFT Language Switcher module is a very important tool for the operation of a multilingual website.
  
  
  • KMFT module Language Switcher is an alternative to native Joomla Language Switcher module when the component KMFasTrans is installed. What this module adds respect to the native module is language switching at the article level (this also applies to contacts and news feeds).
    
    
  • As it is known, in Joomla versions lower than 3.x you can only switch languages at the menu level. For example if you have a Spanish menu that shows a list of items, when you switch to another language, such as English, if both menus are associated you will see the same list of articles in English. However, if you are viewing an item from that list, say in Spanish, when language changes, for example to English, you will not see the same article in English but you will see the list of articles in English.
  
  
  • To fix this behavior, the KMFT Language Switcher module uses both, association of Menus and association of Items. For the switching function to work properly it must be ensured that articles are associated. In KMFasTrans PRO the associations are made automatically when you create a translation, so all that you have to deal with is having translated everything needed (category, article, menu, menu item, module ... ). Doing so language switching will work properly for all content.
  
  
  • Joomla 3.x provides article level switching, but if the language of your article (or the category to wich the article belongs) is 'All' then you still need the KMFT Language Switcher module because the native Joomla Language Switcher module does not switch elements whose language is 'All'.
• The administration module 'KMFasTrans Dashboard Link'.
  • This module inserts a link to the Translations Management Dashboard screen to the right of the administration menu. So you can go to the KMFasTrans Dashboard at any time with a single click.
  • The module is created, published and located in the position 'menu' during the component install process (only on the first installation in which the module is supported). You can unpublish it after that if you want.
• The administration module 'KMFasTrans Translate'.
  • This module inserts a drop-down list of languages to the right of the administration menu to translate elements from the Joomla item listing or from the Joomla edit form.
  • The module is created, activated and located in the position 'menu' during the component install process (only on the first installation in which the module is supported). You can unpublish it after that if you want.

Screenshots

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• Control Panel Control Panel
• Content Languages Content Languages
• Translations Management Dashboard Translations Management Dashboard
• Set Details Set Details
• Set Details Set Details
• Set Status:Not Completed Set Status:Not Completed
• Set Status:Modified Set Status:Modified
• Set Status:Complete Set Status:Complete
• Denial of editing and deleting in a language. Denial of editing and deleting in a language.
• Translation Item Title Translation Item Title
• Change Item Icon (right arrow) Change Item Icon (right arrow)
• Change Item Screen Change Item Screen
• Unassign Item Icon (down arrow) Unassign Item Icon (down arrow)
• Unassign Item Confirmation Screen Unassign Item Confirmation Screen
• Trash Item Icon (minus sign) Trash Item Icon (minus sign)
• Assign Item Icon (up arrow) Assign Item Icon (up arrow)
• Assign Item Screen Assign Item Screen
• Create Item Icon (plus sign) Create Item Icon (plus sign)
• Automatic Menu Item Associations Automatic Menu Item Associations
• Create/Edit Item Screen. Category filtering by French Language Create/Edit Item Screen. Category filtering by French Language
• Create/Edit Item Screen. Category filtering by Spanish Language Create/Edit Item Screen. Category filtering by Spanish Language
• Automatic Translation Automatic Translation
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Requirements

KM FasTrans requires the following software environment:

• Joomla!™ 2.5 or higher including 3.x up to 3.4
• PHP 5.3+
• MySQL 5.0 or later. Needs storage engine InnoDB.

FREE versus PRO

Feature	KMFasTrans FREE	KMFasTrans PRO
Based on the concept of a "Translations Set"
One place integrated Language Management
Automatic preparation of site for multilanguage
At a glance view of sets of translations and its items
Support of all translatable content
Front end article editing
Article level language switching
Management of Translations Sets
Translations from any language to any language
Create/Edit translation items
Create/Edit translation items forcing Joomla rules
Automatic Item Associations
Language level permissions
Translations Suggestions
Inconsistencies Detection
Associations Synchronization