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Sinisakrisan: Created page with "JomSocial fully support multilingual sites and this article will explain how to properly translate the Toolbar navigation ==Wrong Approach== First thing many users will try ..."

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Created page with "JomSocial fully support multilingual sites and this article will explain how to properly translate the Toolbar navigation ==Wrong Approach== First thing many users will try ..."

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JomSocial fully support multilingual sites and this article will explain how to properly translate the Toolbar navigation

==Wrong Approach==
First thing many users will try to do is to create another menu in Joomla Menu Manager replicating the JomSocial Toolbar on their respective language. This practice however, is wrong, and it wont work

==Proper Approach==
Translating Toolbar will involve some modifying of JomSocial language files. If you already have multilingual site, we will assume you know how to manipulate with language files of Joomla and extensions that are installed. 
With your favorite code editor, open default JomSocial language file which is '''ROOT/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_community.ini''' and open language file for your respective language. It should be this file '''ROOT/language/xx-YY/xx-YY.com_community.ini''' where xx-YY is your language code 
Scroll to the bottom of both files

Next, go to Joomla Menu Manager and open the JomSocial Toolbar Menu. Select the menu item you want to translate and click on '''Edit''' 
For this example, we will edit the '''Profile''' menu item

[[File:Editmenu1.png]]

In '''Menu Title''' option, replace the word '''Profile''' with the language key you want to use. You can use basically any key you want but for the sake of uniformed design we will use this schema 
'''COM_COMMUNITY_TOOLBAR_ITEMNAME''' 
Following this schema, we will enter the '''COM_COMMUNITY_TOOLBAR_PROFILE'' in Menu title as indicated on the picture bellow

[[File:Editmenu2.png]]
* '''Note:''' - we entered the COM_COMMUNITY_TOOLBAR_PROFILE in that field, only it is not fully visible.
Save the menu item and open bot of your language files. 
At the very end of both files, now you can add the translation for this menu item
<syntaxhighlight lang="php">
COM_COMMUNITY_TOOLBAR_PROFILE="Our Translation"
</syntaxhighlight>
 
Navigate to the site Front End and you will see your new translation in effect

[[File:Toolbartranslated.png]]

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 Navigate to the site Front End and you will see your new translation in effect
-[[File:Toolbartranslated.png]]
+[[File:Jomsocial-toolbar.jpeg]]
-−
-[[File:js-toolbar.jpeg]]
 ==See Also==
 * [[Toolbar Explained]]

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 [[File:Toolbartranslated.png]]
 ==See Also==
 * [[Toolbar Explained]]

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 ==Wrong Approach==
-First thing many users will try to do is to create another menu in Joomla Menu Manager replicating the JomSocial Toolbar on their respective language. This practice however, is wrong, and it wont work
+The first thing many users will try to do is to create another menu in Joomla Menu Manager replicating the JomSocial Toolbar on their respective language. This practice, however, is wrong, and it won't work
 ==Proper Approach==

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 [[File:Editmenu2.png]]
 * '''Note:''' - we entered the COM_COMMUNITY_TOOLBAR_PROFILE in that field, only it is not fully visible.
-Save the menu item and open bot of your language files.<br/>
+Save the menu item and at the bottom of language files add the proper translation.<br/>
-At the very end of both files, now you can add the translation for this menu item
 <syntaxhighlight lang="php">
 COM_COMMUNITY_TOOLBAR_PROFILE="Our Translation"