Translations Management Dashboard

Overview

This screen displays all the information you need for managing your translations. For each type of element selected (categories, articles,...), it will display a list of items of that type (according to the filters that have been selected). For each item (row of the list) it will display the items that are their translations into the selected target languages along with their publication status and an indication if the item has inconsistencies.

How to Access

Select Components → KM FasTrans → Translations Dashboard from the drop-down menu on the back-end of your Joomla! installation or click the link Translations Management Dashboard in the Control Panel window.

Description

In the Translations Management Dashboard window you can edit the source item, create or edit translation items in one or more languages, publish, unpublish and trash items, assign, unassign or change items of translations sets and create or delete translations sets.

Screenshot

Toolbar

At the top left you can see these buttons:

  • New Article. Pressing this button will present the Joomla edition screen to create a new article in the selected source language.
  • Mark Set as Completed. When the status of a Set of Translations is 'Modified' you can manually change the status to 'Complete'. You will probably want to do that when all changes you had made to one or more items on the set had been finished. You can do this one at a time by clicking the Set Status of the desired set, or you can change the status of several items at once by checking their ID's (in the second column) and clicking this button. (Except if the element type is 'Categories'. In this case you are only allowed to make changes one at a time).
  • Refresh Status of All Sets. Some changes in the state of the sets of translations are not updated immediately. To ensure that the state is updated you should press this button in the following cases:
    • - When you add or delete a content language.
    • - When changing the status of a category that has descendants.
    • - At any time when there is some doubt whether the state is updated.

At the top right you can see these buttons:

  • Help. Opens this Help Screen.
  • Language manager Options. Opens the Joomla Language Manager options window.
  • Options. Opens the KMFasTrans Options window. Allows setting of configuration options. To learn more visit

Filters

If you have a large number of items on the list, you can use these filters to find the desired item(s) quickly.

Filter Title, Id or Set

If you type some string diferent from 'id:xxxx' or 'set:xxxx' and pres the magnifying glass, only elements whose title contains the typed string will be listed.

If you type 'id:xxx' where xxx is a number, the element whose id is 'xxx' if any, will be listed.

If you type 'set:xxx' where xxx is a number, all the elements that are assigned to the set of translations whose number is xxx will be listed.

The rest of the filters are drop-down lists that depend on the type of element selected.

Selecting the Source Language

You have to select the source language of the translations in this drop-down list. The language of all items in the list whose id appears in the ID column and whose title appears in the Title column will be the source language.

Selecting Target Languages

In this drop-down list you can select the languages you want to see in the window. The list includes all the existing content languages in the published and unpublished state, except for the source language that you have selected in the source languages drop down.
Each time you add a language, the added language column is displayed without reloading the page (using Ajax processes). When you remove a language, the corresponding column is hidden.
Because adding and removing languages is very fast, you can adapt the languages you are using with total freedom.

Selecting the Element Type

You have to select, in this drop-down list, the type of the elements you want to list.

Selecting source language items

In this drop-down list you can select the elements of the source language that you want to have in the list based on its translation status. The tip obtained when hovering the mouse over the drop-down list provides enough information to make the selection.

Selecting Inconsistent items

If you choose Inconsistencies only, only elements that have an inconsistency will be displayed, both in the source language and in any of the selected target languages.

If you choose Select Trans Incons, all elements will be displayed whether or not they have inconsistencies.

Selecting Status

If you choose Select Element Status, all elements will be displayed regardless of their status. This selection only affects the elements whose ID and title appear in the columns ID and Title. It does not affect the elements that appears in any language columns.

Explaining each row

 Now we will review the content that is displayed in each row

Column Headers

The Translations Dashboard tab has the following column titles.

  • Checkbox. Check this box to select one or more Sets. To select all Sets, check the box in the column heading. After one or more boxes are checked, click a toolbar button to take an action on the selected Set or Sets. Some toolbar actions, such as Mark Set as Completed, can work with multiple Sets. Others, such as Refresh Status of All Sets work with all Sets. If the set status is not Modified you can not check it.
  • Status. The status of source item. Clicking on the icons will change the status of the item.

  • ID. This is a unique identification number for this item assigned automatically by Joomla!. It is used to identify the item internally, and you cannot change this number

  • Menu/Category/Extension/Module Type. This column title is variable depending on the selected element type. It is 'Category' in most cases, but it can be 'Extension' for Categories, 'Menu' for Menu-Items, 'Module Type' for Modules, or nothing for 'Menus'. Its content for each row is what the heading says. For Categories and Menu-Items, clicking on the heading will order the elements by its hierarchy of descendants.
  • Title . The source item title. When clicking on the Title, the Joomla editiing screen will be displayed in order to edit the source item. Clicking Save and then Close in the Joomla editing window will return to this window.

  • Translation Set. The set of translations to which this element belongs (if any). It consists of the 'Set Number' and the 'Set Status' (Complete, Incomplete or Modified). If you click the Set Number you will see the Set Details Screen (it is explained below).

The Set Details window

When clicking on the set number the following pop-up window will be shown:

For more detailed information on Set Details visit Sets of Translations.

If you hover the mouse over the Set Status Icon you will see the status (Complete, Incomplete or Modified), and if it is 'Completed' you will also see the completion date and time.

The other status icon indicates if any item in the set has inconsistencies, even if its language is not showing because it has not been selected as a target language.

Actions in all selected target languages

It contains several buttons to take some actions on the elements in all the selected target languages. The following images show the buttons and their meaning. It is obtained by hovering the mouse over each button.

       

Hovering the mouse over the little black down arrow, more buttons less frequently used are shown. And a tip is also shown when hovering the mouse over each button.

     

      

Language columns

The remaining columns contain the items of the set of translations that are translations of the source item. There is one column by language and as many languages as they are selected in the dropdown-list  - Select Target Languages -.

Each column can have two different buttons visible depending on whether the element already exists and belongs to the set of translations, or if it does not exist or does not belong to the set of translations.

The status of the item and the language are also shown:

The visible buttons in each column are as follow:

If the element exists, as in the case of the Dutch language in the following image, you will see an button and a button. If the element does not exist, or does not belong to the set of translations, as is the case of the Spanish language, you will see a button and a button.

By hovering the mouse over the button or the button you will see the following tips:

 

 By passing the mouse over the  button or the  button you will see the following tips:

 

If you are not allowed to edit or create elements in some languages you can get tips such as the following:

Hovering the mouse over the little black down arrow, more buttons less frequently used are shown. And a tip is also shown when hovering the mouse over each button.

For the column the buttons are as follow

   

The Change Association window

When clicking the link the following pop-up window will be shown:

The elements in the list have the same element type that you are working with (articles in this example).

They are always filtered by language, extension (if they are categories), module type (if they are modules) or menu (if they are menu items). You can also filter the list by "Not Associated" or "Select Association" using the drop-down list in the top.  By default, the value of this filter is "Not Associated", meaning that the list only contains elements not belonging to any other translation set. If you choose "Select Association" the list will show all elements, associatred and not associated, and if you select an element that is already associated to another translations set, it will be disassociated from that translations set and associated to the current one.

The Disassociate window

When clicking the link the following pop-up window will be shown:

 

 

When clicking the link the item will be trashed (a warning message will be shown requesting confirmation before trashing the item).

 When clicking the link the item will be unpublished.

When clicking the link the item will be published.

 

For the column the buttons are as follow:

   

The Associate window

When clicking the link the following pop-up window will be shown:

 

 The elements in the list have the same element type that you are working with (articles in this example).

They are always filtered by language, extension (if they are categories), module type (if they are modules) or menu (if they are menu items). You can also filter the list by "Not Associated" or "Select Association" using the drop-down list in the top.  By default, the value of this filter is "Not Associated", meaning that the list only contains elements not belonging to any other translation set. If you choose "Select Association" the list will show all elements, associatred and not associated, and if you select an element that is already associated to another translations set, it will be disassociated from that translations set and associated to the current one.

 The Inconsistencies window

 In both in the and the columns, a red vertical ellipse may appear, showing that the element has inconsistencies:

 

When clicking the red ellipse, the following pop-up window will be shown:

 For more detailed information about inconsistencies visit Dealing with inconsistencies

Quick Tips

  • If no rows are shown check the - Select Element Type -, - Select Source Language - and - Select Target Languages - drop-down lists.
  • If you do not find what you are looking for, clear all filters, unselect all drop-down lists (except - Select Element Type -), select 'Select Element Status' as Select Element Status, select 'Select Items' as Select Items and select all languages in  - Select Target Languages - . Also verify that there exist at least one item of the selected element type.

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