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Translation of OFBiz assets with built-in i18n options

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This section assumes you have understood the relationship of Content, ContentAssociations and DataResources. Also, you should understand how a DataResource can be provided to the system.

Some OFBiz entities have built-in i18n options, the most prominent (and evident) are Catalog-Categories and Product. Check out how to translate Products or Categories Name and Descriptions, have a look at How to localize Product and Categories descriptions.
You can find out which entities provide this option when searching for "*Content" in the entitymodel.xml configuration files (which will then list out all occurencies of a <entityname>Content entity). Search in the current trunk (rev 811440) resulted in the following Content-Entities:

  • applications / order --> OrderContent
  • applications / party --> PartyContent
  • applications / party --> CommunicationsEventContent
  • applications / product --> ProductCategoryContent
  • applications / product --> ProductConfigurationItemContent
  • applications / product --> ProductContent
  • applications / workeffort --> WorkEffortContent

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Translation of Text Elements using the CMS

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This section assumes you have understood the relationship of Content, ContentAssociations and DataResources. Also, you should understand how a DataResource can be provided to the system.

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Beyond Translation

As mentioned earlier, certain elements of i18n go beyond text translation. These elements typically comprise regionalized rules (e.g. for tax calculation) or entity instances (e.g. for general ledger). This section will discuss some general items in this

Tools and Documents in this WIKI

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