Admin General Settings - Program Language
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Last Post: April 14, 2011 (RSS)
Hi
Apologies in advance if this is an obvious question. In the General Settings panel within the Admin section there is an option for Program Language. Does this convert the user interface within the administration section into your chosen language? I have a site that I have built in English which will be translated into French and placed with a new CMS on a separate domain. The person administering the site will be French, so it would be good to offer them the option of updating their site in their own language if this is what this option does. I searched through your documentation and couldn't find an answer to this question and I didn't want to play around with the English version site as its now live!
Many thanks in advance for your assistance.
(PS - it would be good to have some documentation to read through on this kind of thing unless I have just missed it somewhere?)
Apologies in advance if this is an obvious question. In the General Settings panel within the Admin section there is an option for Program Language. Does this convert the user interface within the administration section into your chosen language? I have a site that I have built in English which will be translated into French and placed with a new CMS on a separate domain. The person administering the site will be French, so it would be good to offer them the option of updating their site in their own language if this is what this option does. I searched through your documentation and couldn't find an answer to this question and I didn't want to play around with the English version site as its now live!
Many thanks in advance for your assistance.
(PS - it would be good to have some documentation to read through on this kind of thing unless I have just missed it somewhere?)
Re: [newmediachoice] Admin General Settings - Program Language
By gkornbluth - April 14, 2011
Hi newmediachoice,
My experience has been that:
Changing the default language in admin > general settings changes most of the labels on the user interface, and should make your client's experience more user friendly.
It doesn't change any user entered data (Table names, field names, data, etc.),
You can switch back and forth from English to any other supported language at any time, but it will affect anyone accessing the interface while that language is set.
Hope that helps,
Jerry Kornbluth
My experience has been that:
Changing the default language in admin > general settings changes most of the labels on the user interface, and should make your client's experience more user friendly.
It doesn't change any user entered data (Table names, field names, data, etc.),
You can switch back and forth from English to any other supported language at any time, but it will affect anyone accessing the interface while that language is set.
Hope that helps,
Jerry Kornbluth
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Re: [gkornbluth] Admin General Settings - Program Language
Thanks Jerry - this perfectly answers my question :).