The Installed Languages section of the Language Switcher & Google Translate dashboard page allows administrators to configure the following language options:
- Configure additional settings for installed languages
- Identify additional Google translated languages (not installed) to be displayed in your language picker
- Enable or disable machine translations for search results
Installed Language Settings
By default, all installed languages will automatically show in the language picker; however, sometimes incomplete or missed manual translations my confuse your end users.
To ensure there are no gaps in translations:
- From the Dashboard, click System Configuration
- By default the page should open to the Installed Languages section, if not, click that from the left side of the screen
- Click Language Switcher & Google Translate
- For each installed language, click Incomplete Translation
- Click Save Configuration at the bottom of the page
Google Translate Languages
Depending on your needs, organizations can take advantage of Google translations without installing the language. In these scenarios however, you cannot manually translate site labels or content, and Stacks is not responsible for the availability or accuracy of Google translations.
- From the Dashboard, click System Configuration
- Click Language Switcher and Google Translate
- Click the Google Translate Languages section from the left side of the screen
- Under the Show in Language Switcher column, check the box for each language to include
- Click Save configuration, at the bottom of the page
Translation Overrides
Machine translation is defined as the automated method of translating text from one language to another without human involvement. This process has improved significantly over time and continues to evolve, however, there are rare circumstances where machine translation takes something out of context which can affect the meaning of the content. To reduce the impact of incorrect translation on content that is not managed within Stacks, administrators can override the machine translation on search results to maintain the original language and context.
- From the Dashboard, click System Configuration
- Click Language Switcher & Google Translate
- Click the Translation Overrides section from the left side of the screen
- Check the boxes as needed:
- Search Results
- Disable machine translation on search results list and detail records, this will affect all search results that appear in the list view
- Bento Search Results
- Disable machine translation on search results displayed on multi-search or Bento pages
- Facets
- Disable machine translation for Facets
- Search Results
- Click Save configuration, at the bottom of the page