Translated content (and menu) visible, English version is not?

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charlesj's picture

We are working with a commercial web development firm to enhance the translation capabilities of our Drupal 7 site.

The issue we are facing is that many of our products are available in Europe before they are available in the US. Thus, we need to have an unpublished US-English source, with published German, Italian, Spanish, and French translations. (Of course, the page title, and appropriate menu entries, should also be translated.)

It should also be pretty simple for a translator to locate the appropriate page(s) to edit from an /admin/content page, and make any necessary changes.

Our prototype used node translation (and did a reasonable job) -- but the commercial web development firm insisted that this be changed to Entity translation -- and now we've lost some of our required functionality. (Unpublishing the English source while publishing the translations is the biggest one.)

What's the preferred way to handle this on a Drupal 7 site?

Thanks!

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Product availability is not related to translation

miro_dietiker's picture

The entity status is a general published / unpublished flag. Translation status is supposed to state translation readyness.

This all should be decoupled from country / region / product availability and thus you should have a separate field to manage that. You can then also filter for content that is relevant for region and check the translation status. Depending the country / region, you will then filter the products appropriately.

BTW: Translation management offers source overviews that allow you to gain overview on the status of translations. Also you could decouple the translation workflow from editing the entities themself. But don't know how good it fits in D7 as the translation experience is a bit limited and it's a better fit to delegate jobs to translation services providers.

Hope these ideas help a bit?

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