Help for MENU translation with i18n module

By PePiToO on 13 Nov 2006 at 07:56 UTC

Hi,

I have my website in English using drupal.
I decided to provide French and chineese translation for my new visitors.
I found and installed the i18n module, could translate all the articles i needed.
So now we just have to click on different flags to see the website in the language we want.

But the thing is that I don't know how to translate the MENU !!! All the articles can be translate by using the Translation button... but for the MENU, no translation button.
I tried to create a French menu, point it to each article in French ( quite a long work actually) but when i click on the French Flag the French menu doesn't appear...

Couldn't find any How to in this website or even google.
Does somoene have any idea ?

Comments

You must go to

Libra commented 13 November 2006 at 09:51

You must go to admin/locale/string/search and search string that match to your menu item. Then you can translate it

Hoooo, so easyyy, but there

PePiToO commented 13 November 2006 at 11:31

Hoooo, so easyyy, thanks a lot !!!
but there is no how-to for this module so i could i know that ?

Check out this module for menu translation

fmjrey commented 21 October 2007 at 15:16

http://drupal.org/project/menutranslation
This module provides a user friendly interface to translate menu items (requires i18n module).
From an end-user point of view, translating menu items is not really intuitive, and comes with some problems:
- Users have to remember the menu item string, use the 'Manage strings' tab in Localization, fill in the exact string (case sensitive), etc...
- If a new menu item is added, it might not even show up in the 'Manage strings' tab because it hasn't been called yet.
So users will need to visit a page containing the string first, in order to find it in the Locale system.

A lot of people have already complained about this problem, and sooner or later there will be a good solution built into Drupal.
Until then this module provides you with a more easy-to-use interface to translate your menus easily.

You can specify which menu(s) should be translatable, and users with proper privileges can easily add or edit translations for each menu item in the selected menus.