Admin User Language

Synopsis

The Admin User Language module makes sure that any user has a pre-selected administration pages language.

This is useful when you want to give a consistent user experience to your users, in the specific, when you want to force the back end navigation to be always in a specific language (e.g. English).

If your users have any administration privilege in fact, since their registration, they will have the administration pages language set to - no preference - unless manually changed.

This module makes sure that on every user registration/update, its administration language will always be set to a specific one of your choice. Further, it can also be forced to avoid arbitrary user customisation.

Requirements

• The site must have at least two active languages

By default Drupal shows the language selector in the user profile if some conditions are met:

• The user has the permission 'access administration pages'
• The language negotiator 'Account administration pages' is enabled under admin/config/regional/language/detection

If you don't meet these requirements, the user won't be able to pick any language, so this module would never act to change the admin user language.

If you don't want to give an user full admin rights just to be able to switch their admin interface language, please check out this module admin_language_negotiation.

Roadmap

Admin User Language is currently under active development.

Installation

• Download the module via composer
• Enable the module via drupal console (recommended)

Configuration

• Navigate to /admin/config/admin_user_language/settings
• Select the Default language to assign
• Tick the checkbox Force language only if you don't wont to allow
  an arbitrary administration pages language by your users

Check that everything works as expected

Once the configuration is done we can run an easy test:

Register a new user and verify that its administration pages language is set to the one you defined in the configuration.

If you selected Force language, try to change the administration pages language to a language that is different from the one you configured, then save the user.
Open the user profile and check if the administration pages language has been
re-set to the one you specified in the configuration.

Contributing

Any help is welcome to support and improve the project, but considered feature-complete by its maintainers.

Troubleshooting and info

Please refer to the README.md in the project root.