Are you building a multilingual Drupal website and wondering how you're going to get everything translated? One of the major challenges of setting up a multilingual site is getting translations into Drupal, and keeping them up-to-date. Whether you're working with a team of translators or translating the site yourself, there are lots of tools and techniques that you can use to improve your translation workflow.

1. MANAGING
TRANSLATION
WORKFLOWS FOR
DRUPAL 7

2. About Me
Suzanne Kennedy, Co-founder
Training, Development, Consulting
evolvingweb.ca | 514-844-4930
@suzanne_kennedy

3. Multilingual Projects

4. Translation
Workflows

5. Goal of Translation
Workflows
• Translation is:
• Time-consuming
• Expensive
• How can you speed up the process and
reduce the amount of text to be
translated?

6. What are Translation
Workflows?
Translator

7. Benefits of an External
Translation Tool
• Easier for translations to learn
• Tracks cost of translation
• Provides integration with machine/
community-sourced translations
• Advanced features (translation memory)
• Integration with multiple translation teams

8. Benefits of Doing
Translation in Drupal
• Less overhead
• Less expensive
• Add translations as you go
• Takes advantage of Drupal’s content
management tools
• Easier to provide context

9. Two Types of Text
User-Interface Strings Content

10. Two Types of Text
User-Interface Strings Content
In code
+
In the
database

11. Translation
Workflows for UI
Strings

12. Translation Workflow for
UI Strings
1. Pull in contributed translations 2. Override translations +
from localize.drupal.org add translations of user-defined strings

13. Using Translations
from
Localize.Drupal.org

14. UI Strings in Code

15. Use Localize.Drupal.org
• Each language has a project
• Translators contribute translations in their
language
• Some projects have better coverage than
others.

16. Localize.Drupal.org
Project Page

17. What is a .po file?
• Text file storing the
original text and the
translations.
• A .pot file is a
template file,
containing only the
original text to be
translated.

18. Upload .po files to Drupal

19. Localization Update
drupal.org/project/l10n_update

20. Localization Update

21. Translation Overview

22. Overriding
Translations in
Drupal

23. Overriding a Translation

24. Editing a Translation

25. Editing a Translation

26. Override Translations

27. Use Localization Client
drupal.org/project/l10n_client

28. Sharing Your Translations
Add your API key from localize.drupal.org to contribute
your translations back to the community.

29. Overriding/Adding
Translations Outside
of Drupal

30. Use POEdit to Translate

31. Translations Spreadsheet

32. Translating Outside Drupal
CSV with Translations
Translator
CSV Template
.po file for each language

33. Re-using Your Translations

34. Translating User-
Defined Strings

35. User-Defined Strings
• Strings added in the admin UI (not in
code)
• For example: Views text

36. Other User-Defined
Strings
• Block text
• Menu items
• Field settings

37. Translate Interface

38. Translate Tab

39. Translate Tab

40. User-Defined Strings

41. Challenges
• Giving translators access to block/field/
menu configuration
• Allowing translators to use all input formats
• Changing the original values
• Changing the default language

42. Translation
Workflows for
Content

43. Content Translation
Workflow
1. Author creates a new node 2. Translators adds a translation
Translator
Author

44. Translation
Workflows for
Content:
Translating in Drupal

45. Translation Interface in
Drupal

46. Node-Level vs. Field-Level
Translation
Field-Level Translation Node-Level Translation

47. Creating a Translation
Workflow from Scratch
• Permissions for translators
• Rules and Flag to trigger translation
requests
• Views for Translators

48. Permissions for
Translation
• Content Translation: Translators need to
be able to create content
• Entity Translation: Permission to edit the
Entity Type
• No granular translation permissions per
content type (use i18n_access)

49. Typical UI for Translators

50. Challenges
• Different UI for Entity Translation/Content
Translation (Confusing)
• Professional translators need to learn
Drupal
• Need to build system for reviewing
translations

51. Modules for Translation
Workflow
• Translation Management Tool (TMGMT)
• Lingotek Collaborative Translation

52. Translation
Workflows for
Content:
TMGMT Module

53. Translation Management
Tool (TMGMT)
drupal.org/project/tmgmt

54. Translation Management
Tool (TMGMT)
Drupal

55. Translators
• Microsoft (Bing) Translator (machine)
• Google Translate (machine)
• Nativy (human)
• MyGengo (human)
• Supertext (human)
• One Hour Translation (human)

56. Microsoft Translator

57. Microsoft Translator

58. Requesting Translations

59. Choosing a Translator

60. Review Translation

61. Review Translation

62. Accepted Translation
Appears

63. Translate in Bulk

64. Translation ‘Jobs’

65. Benefits of TMGMT
• Works with Entity and Node Translation
• Easy to configure
• Allows you to hook into your own
translation service, if you’re a developer
• Translation of UI Strings on its way
(blocks, menus, etc.)
• Translation UI in Drupal on its way

66. Translation
Workflows for
Content:
Lingotek Module

67. Lingotek Module
drupal.org/project/lingotek

68. Lingotek
Drupal
Individual
Translator

69. Create a Lingotek Account

70. Connect to Machine
Translation Tool

72. Create a Project
Create a new project for each Drupal website

73. Lingotek Translation Per
Content Type
Disables manual translation of content

74. Lingotek Translation Tool
• Enables translation at the field-level
• Need to flag fields as being translatable

75. Send a Node for
Translation

76. Translating a Node
Switch the site to French, and you’ll see a message:
Click on the link to go to the Lingotek Translation UI

77. Updating the Translation
In order to accept the translation and publish
it to the site, you have to click ‘Update’.

78. Translation Appears

79. Project Status

80. Benefits of Lingotek
• Translation memory
• Sophisticated translation workflow
• Advanced feature set (i.e. settings for
tokens to ignore, etc.)
• Community-sourced translations
• Provides a UI for professional translators

81. Conclusion

82. What to Take Away
• Map out your translation workflow before
you start
• Talk to your translators and figure out
their needs/role
• Use the Localization Update module
• Plan for adding more languages
• Take advantage of translation
management modules

83. Training Program
We offer public and private Drupal training sessions
evolvingweb.ca/training
http://munich2012.drupal.org/program/training/building-
multilingual-websites-drupal-7