How to store translated text in a content item or site area

Translated text can be stored in a content item or site area. The translated text can then be referenced in web content tags, or as localized text in web content authoring portlet forms.

How to create the content item or site area to store the translated text

Create a content item or site area.
Add ibm.wcm.TextProvider as a keyword in the content item or site area's profile settings.
Create a set of text elements for each language that is used by your site. Each text element must be named entering a language code for the language in the name field. See Supported languages for a list of codes. At render time, if the requested language does not exist in the list of elements, the first element is used as the default language.
Type the translated text in each field by using this format: keyname=translated-text. You can add as many key names as you need into each text element. For example:
```
keyname1=translated text
keyname2=translated text
keyname3=translated text
```
The key names must be consistent for each language.
The list of key names and translated text uses the Java Properties File Format.

How to select the translated text in a web content authoring portlet form

Fields that support localized text have a Localizations link next to the field title. Click Localizations to select the content item or site area where your translated text is stored, and then select a key name.

How to select the translated text in a web content tag

You can render translated text by using a plug-in tag:

[Plugin:Localize key="" provider=""]

You specify the name path to the content item or site area in the provider parameter, and the name of the key to display in the key parameter. For example:

[Plugin:Localize key="keyname2" provider="library/sitearea/contentitem"]

Note: If you move or rename a content item or site area that is used to store localized text, or its parent, you will break the localized reference that is specified in a tag. To avoid this issue, you can instead specify the item ID instead of the name path.

For example:

[Plugin:Localize provider="[Element key='Text Provider Name' format='id']" key="keyname2"]

See Content plug-ins for further information about the localized plug-in within the text provider plug-in tag section.

Setting a default localized item in a web content tag

If you intend to use the Localize plug-in tag more than once in a component design or presentation template design using the same the localized item, you can specify the default localized item name path in one tag:

[Plugin:Localize defaultProvider="library/sitearea/contentitem"]

You can then leave out the provider parameter in the tags that follow the default provider tag:

[Plugin:Localize defaultProvider="library/sitearea/contentitem"]
[Plugin:Localize key="key1"]
[Plugin:Localize key="key2"]
[Plugin:Localize key="key3"]

The default provider is applied in all presentation template designs and component designs, including component designs that are included by using the tags, such as a component tag.

To remove the default provider, use:

[Plugin:Localize defaultProvider=""]

How to use replacement characters

You can use replacement characters with the localized plug-in tag.

For example, to use keyname_with_replacement=Welcome {0} to the website of {1} in the content item that is located at library/sitearea/contentitem, use:

[Plugin:Localize key="keyname_with_replacement" provider="library/sitearea/contentitem" param.0="Fred" param.1="Mary"]

This is rendered as:

Welcome Fred to the web site of Mary

Hiding a localized item from the web content authoring interface

If you don't want a localized item to appear in the list of localized items in the web content authoring interface, add a text element with the name of isShownInAuthoringUI. Then, type the word false in the text element field. You can still reference this localized item in a plugin-in tag even though it is now hidden from the list of localized items in the web content authoring interface.