Rainbow Portal Community

Hi all,

I am setting up a bi-lingual website with Rainbow. I am able to set the language for each module and this works fine. In my current test-site

http://www.lightinasia.org/de

the user can see the German or English start page with the corresponding text in the chosen language.

I would also like to see the Tab-Name be displayed in the proper language when the user changes the language. For example the top menu

would change from

(Startseite | Aktuelles | Rette-ein-Kind) to (Home | News | Save-a-Child)

Is this already implemented? (I am using version 1713 from CVS)
If, yes where can I access this function?
If not, how could it be done? Which code would have to be chanded to provide localized tab names.

I looked at the Database and the code and did not find what I am looking for, yet. The rb_Tabs table shows only one TabName for each tab with no alternates.

Rainbow.UI.WebControls.DesktopNavigation.DesktopNavigation as used in
(http://localhost/rainbow/Design/DesktopLayouts/BabyBlue/DesktopPortalBanner.ascx) does not appear to provide localization for TabName. On the other hand Rainbow.UI.WebControls.HeaderMenu does provide localization for the fixed wordings on the top (eg "Portal Home").

How could localized TabNames be accomplished in a simple way?


This is my first post. You people have done a tremenduos job in producing such a great open-source portal system! I just want to thank you for that.

Chris

Hi Chris and welcome.

Manu is currently working on something called Esparatus which will allow translations to easily be added and amended. Once that has been released then we will start to look at tab names.

It's something I want done as well, but unfortunately I dont have enough time to implement it yet.

So the unhelpful answer is: not implemented yet but it's on the todo list ;-)

Regards,

John

Hi,

I would like to test an english/french site.

I am also wondering if there is a method to set the language to the Tab-Name.

I have seen the reply from John Mandia stating that this option is being worked on but I also
noticed that the site http://www.lightinasia.org/de has it working.

Thanks in advance,


Andy

Hi andreez,

It is working on my site, as I modified the code in a number of places and added some keys to the languages database. I applied the changes to version 1717. The current version on CVS is 1818j which uses Esperantus. I have not incorporated my changes in the new version yet as I am looking for a better way of doing it using Esperantus.

Chris

Ok thanks for the reply

Andy

Actually my fix has been superseded by the latest version of Rainbow on CVS, which includes this feature very nicely. Quote from the release notes:
1.2.8.1720 - 20/06/2003
by Manu
- ENH: Multilingual module Title. Set you multilingual module title using setting page.
- ENH: Multilingual Tabs. Set you multilingual title for all tabs using Tabsetting page.

Really! Now(Octomber of 2006) I can't do the same!
It seemed, that it's could be implemented by now...
I use Rainbow 1.6.0.1879 with Zen  zen-3col-hmenu  layout.
I havn't found any way to specify tab names specific for different languages!
Furthermore, the links to tabs are also generated using tab name in specific language without proper preprocessing. This is certain bug, because of  the possibility to use  '/' in tab name for example.

This is not a problem now :)
Thanks to support team...

But! There is another real problem. I think, there is no way to hide a tab in one language and show in another. Isn't it?