Full site translations with Entity Translation

Michael Schmid - @Schnitzel

First trials with Entity Translation

why Entity Translation?

• Allows things not possible via Content Translation

• Default in Drupal 8

$body['und'][0]['value'] = "Body";Can we use

that?

YES!

Entity Translation!

• uses Field Translations

• 1 Node for all languages

• changes concepts

Entity Translation

Content Translation

Node 1 Node 2

$language = "en";

$title = "Welcome";

$body['und'][0]['value'] = "Body";

$field_image['und'][0]['fid'] = 45;

$tnid = 1;

$language = "de";

$title = "Willkommen";

$body['und'][0]['value'] = "Körper";

$field_image['und'][0]['fid'] = 45;

$tnid = 1;

Node 1

$language = "en";

$title = "Welcome";

$body['en'][0]['value'] = "Body";$body['de'][0]['value'] = "Körper";

$field_image['und'][0]['fid'] = 45;

[#557292] Convert node title to fields

[#571654] Revert node titles as fields

[#557292] Convert node title to fields

title module

• https://drupal.org/project/title

• allows to replace title with title_field

• handles loading of right language

using Entity Translation

Content Translation

Content Translation

Entity Translation

Entity Translation

what to make translatable?

it depends!

what to make translatable

• Everything with Text

• others...

what languages are used for

• actual translation

• also different department informations

• US vs Europe Products

image fields?

• if image contains text

• or you need different images

list fields?

• to translate choices

• i18n field translations

• most probably not translatable

file fields?

• file probably contains text, so yes

entity reference fields?

• No, your referenced entity is translated again

• Use entityreference field!

Node 1

$body['en'][0]['value'] = "Body";$body['de'][0]['value'] = "Körper";

$field_image['und'][0]['target_id'] = 98;

entity reference fields

Node 98

$body['en'][0]['value'] = "Hello";$body['de'][0]['value'] = "Guten Tag";

Node 1

$body['en'][0]['value'] = "Body";$body['de'][0]['value'] = "Körper";

$field_image['en'][0]['target_id'] = 99;$field_image['de'][0]['target_id'] = 100;

entity reference fields

Node 99

$body['en'][0]['value'] = "Hello";$body['de'][0]['value'] = "Guten Tag";

Node 100

$body['en'][0]['value'] = "My Name is";$body['de'][0]['value'] = "Mein Name ist";

taxonomy fields?

•most probably not

•translated again

other entities?

file entity translation

• use file_entity module

• title and alt texts are fields

• make translatable

• file itself not translatable

taxonomy entity translation

• can also be translated with i18n_taxonomy

• don't do that anymore!

• now with entity translation

entity translation settings

original

translation

what to translate?

entity translation settings

upgrade!

Entity Translation Upgrade

Entity Translation Upgrade

• entity_translation_upgrade Module

1. make fields translatable!

2. replace title with title field

3. run upgrade

4. one Node will get field translations

5. other Nodes unpublished

Issues

Issues• Field Collections

• [#7735819]

• Views language filter

• Revisions

• Search API

• search_api_et module

Drupal 8

• no Content Translation like D7 anymore

• Entity Translation is called Content Translation

• every Entity is translated via Entity Translation

conclusion

conclusion

• start to use it

• think about what needs to be translatable

• upgrades: test, test, test

• you will still need i18n

Entity Translation <3

Demo