[Using Sakai] Multi-language site title

Wed Sep 26 05:56:37 PDT 2012

Thanks a lot for your extensive answer Diego.

I was however hoping that according to Steve's answer on the topic that
this task would be easier:

"Everything else can be translated, tool and page names and of course the
content of tools. Soak is able to load the correct language pack based on
the user preferences. I don't see it being too difficult to have multiple
site titles for different languages, there is no UI for it though. "

I have seen that changing the user's preferences will indeed translate
tools but have not found how to introduce the multi-language content.
I guess this is quite a common requirement for any non-single-language
deployment, I wonder how others are achieving this.

Regards,

Julian

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Diego del Blanco Orobitg <
diego.delblanco at samoo.es> wrote:

> Hi Julian:****
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> I have to tell you bad news. ****
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> At this moment Sakai don’t have support for Multilanguage (talking about
>  contents, title of the site, description, etc… ). Yes, you can change the
> site language and then the name of the tools (if you have not changed
> manually before) and the standard messages will change, but nothing more.
>  Everything created by users is not multilanguage L****
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> This feature has been a desired requirement for a long time for the
> spanish universities because in some regions here we have 2 official
> languages but develop something like this can be a Titans task.****
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> You can bypass this (in some way…) using your “imagination”, maybe using
> groups you can create and publish  folders in resources or many other sakai
> elements (assessments, assignments, announcements… )  for each language
> group and assign people in the “language” groups. In that case you surely
> will have problems with gradebook to calculate the final score because each
> group will have a different assignment or assessment, but if that is not a
> problem for you, then you can work on this way. And this solution don’t use
> the language preference of the user because it uses groups.****
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> About the title of the site, you can’t do nothing except to use a code… if
> you call the course “CD9948” you don’t have problems with language ;)… it’s
> a total stupid solution, I know… but… the only one if you don’t want to
> touch the code (and the solution is not simple).We have thought about this
> some time before, thinking into store in database, instead a simple string,
> a xml with all the language versions… and then the site.getTitle returns
> the user language preference version… but this finally was not developed.*
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> Resume: This is not an easy question to solve…****
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> Saludos****
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> Diego del Blanco Orobitg****
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> *De:* sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:
> sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] *En nombre de *Julian Brown
> *Enviado el:* miércoles, 26 de septiembre de 2012 11:55
> *Para:* sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
> *Asunto:* [Using Sakai] Multi-language site title****
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> Hi all,
> I just started with sakai. I am developing a portal where multilanguage is a requirement.
> Could someone please elaborate a bit more or point me in the right directions?
> I saw these site properties can be specified in the site administration gui but how do I use them afterwards as site content? Are there already some site properties for the title (couldn't find in the documentation)?
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> Thanks in advance,
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> Julian
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> Hi Joao,
> Everything else can be translated, tool and page names and of course the content of tools. Soak is able to load the correct language pack based on the user preferences. I don't see it being too difficult to have multiple site titles for different languages, there is no UI for it though.****
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> Cheers,****
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> Steve****
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> Sent from my iPad****
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> On 16/08/2012, at 23:45, "Joao Carneiro" <jcarneiro at netcabo.pt <http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/sakai-user>> wrote:****
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> >* Thanks Steve,*
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> >* I somehow expected this to be something everyone was using.*
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> >* Does the same apply to page and tool titles or is there some multilanguage support at that level?*
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> >* What are current approaches to fully multilingual portals using sakai?*
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> >* Chrs,*
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> >*  *
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> >* Joao*
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> >*  *
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> >* From: Steve Swinsburg*
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> >* Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 12:47 AM*
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> >* To: Joao Carneiro*
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> >* Cc: sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org <http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/sakai-user>*
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> >* Subject: Re: [Using Sakai] Multi-language site title*
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> >* Hi Joao,*
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> >* Sites have a fixed title that are not translated at runtime. What would be interesting is if when creating a site it could be set with multiple titles, one for each language you want to support, then the portal uses the correct one. These could just be site properties.*
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> >* cheers,*
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> >* Steve*
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> >* On 31/07/2012, at 11:08 PM, Joao Carneiro wrote:*
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> >>* Hi all,*
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> >>* This is a rather basic question but I cannot seem to find.*
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> >>* Can someone tell me how to configure site titles such that shown title matches user language preference?*
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> >>* Thanks in advance,*
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> >>* Joao*
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