Support

Current behavior:
While webpage content and data records can be in any language, administration interface and system labels are only available in English.

Desired behavior:
Ability to use other languages, first of all for member and public view, ideally for the admin view as well.

Notes:
1) Languages under consideration:
Spanish, French, German
2) Once we localize the system, each new release will become longer and more expensive since we will need to review and translate new labels into each additional language.

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

We would like to have Chinese version since China is such a big market.

Comment received via email (slightly edited):

 

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I am looking to do something like:

http://www.conceptionkit.com/

 
Most our clients will want to provide a bilingual content site. :).  The system localization...is not

important for us..., but the ability to provide an easy to navigate multilingual site is....

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

Hello from Europe!

I would definitely like to have a "multi-language" option that would allow the user to choose from several available languages.

The languages I would need currently are English, French and German. 

The "development" issue I see for the moment are the custom fields. These would have to be completed "by language", therefore your clients would have to select the languages he wants to use, which would trigger the number of "language fields" to complete for each custom field.

The initial translation cost would indeed be quite high. The following developments shouldn't be too expensive as you build on your "already translated" system, and all that needs to be translated are the new words.

I hope this helped!

Take care - Danielle 

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Danielle

www.ppadin.net

Thanks Danielle, appreciate your input.

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

This multiple language support in one site is very important for us.  We are an international organization that operates mostly in English but we have a lot of members in Spanish, French, and German-speaking countries.  We are implementing our WA site now, and will have to invest in workarounds to the extent that this is not available.  What is the realistic time frame for your implementation, and what features of multi-lingual support will be first?

 Thanks.
 

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Ken Sloan
Association for Holotropic Breathwork (AHBI)

Ken,

The way it looks now, we will not start adding multi-lingual support for at least 6-9 months - need to take care of some basic architecture changes first. Actual features will be largely determined by input we receive.

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

 

Dmitry, we have just completed a multi-language project for the Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry; see WA site here -  http://cagp.roundtablelive.org/

I hope that this site development will demonstrate the flexibility that the WA system affords its users.  Also, hope it helps answer some questions for those WA users who are seeking out multi-language solutions.

 

 

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Thanks,
Felix Figuereo
Managing Director
Nicasio Design & Development
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Office - 912-292-1716
Direct - 912.441.7011
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I saw it, very cool - very nice use of Javascript to provide a switch between English and French.

Good job!!

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

Thanks Dmitry. We appreciate the opportunity to work with WA team and customers - and we look forward to continued improvements of the application. Thanks for the newsletters and updates - they are very helpful as well as insightful.

 Let us know when you are ready to visit us in Savannah Georgia!

 

 

 

 

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Thanks,
Felix Figuereo
Managing Director
Nicasio Design & Development
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Office - 912-292-1716
Direct - 912.441.7011
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We have decided to postpone this further - there is simply too much for us to do in the main, English version, before we can allocate any resources to localization.

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot