Views is arguably the most powerful module of drupal, because it allows us to display any pieces of website content in any format. The drupal internationalization module i18n provides an easy to use interface to translate drupal websites. Translate active tab status message no strings found with this filter. One would think that this would translate the either the url or the node content. Drupal 8 has automated translation downloads builtin so you can forget about this page. Views pdf initially seemed the better option as it would allow us to leverage the power of. Using views contextual filters to create a related content. Whether you like it or not pdf is a mainstream adopted format to exchange documents. Using drupal 8 preprocess views view field was a bit tricky so i set up these snippets that should help in your theme yourtheme. But i also want to translate the views header and footer, the text that appears before and after the list.
Views fieldsets creates fieldsets in views in order to sort the fields there. The i18n views integration module does an excellent job of allowing you to return only nodes matching a particular language, but it doesnt help when it comes to translating the view itself and more importantly allowing a view to site nicely into. In case the theme you are using is not using a separate header file, this means that it is using the default drupal header file named. When translating content in drupal 7, there is a choice between the i18n internationalization package, which has been the preferred way of translating for several years, and the newer entity translation module. The api to get this system working went into core, but there was no time and not enough agreement to get a ui into core. Content translation only for nodes, makes copies of nodes. Localized and multilingual content in drupal 7 lullabot. Multilingual views in drupal when using i18n module.
Im currently working on a multilingual drupal 8 multisite and i need to translate some views. Add following code to the different views files and you are able to translate per language. Drupal 8 is currently the latest version of drupal. How to set up a system to place a header image on a drupal. One of the big web design trends in the last year has been fixed headers. How to properly use php on drupal views fields appnovation. She saw how clients and nontechnical colleagues can easily be left out of the conversation by. New approach to generating pdf documents in drupal using views posted by hunziker on march 8, 2011 at 7. Because were exposing the header image as a page template variable, other drupal modules can intercept and modify it. I guess the only question is, how adopted is this specification with browsers. An ostraining member asked us about attaching pdfs to a drupal site.
She immediately approached drupal as a new language, and used this perspective to learn and then to teach. For developers, very simple wrapper functions are available to mark your translatable strings and let drupal translate them to whatever language needed. When lily first started working near drupal account and project management in a drupal agency, she came from working near french marketing and fundraising for a french cultural center. Everbody thinks they want field translation, and that is the new great thing, but make sure you set your expectations right. They look great sometimes and you can do some really creative things with them. This very small modules allows translation of the page title and labels of fields and exposed filters in views. Note while this is geared to drupal 7 it has some information relevant to theming views slideshow for drupal 8 as well. Preprocess the primary theme implementation for a view.
The series starts by highlighting each change in the userfacing interface. Youll probably want to learn how to setup calendars, contact forms, comments, multilingual sites and of course, slideshows in this tutorial, ill show you how to build your first drupal 8 slideshow. Pdf views can be saved as files on the server by rules. This functionality is not any more part of this project. His site doesnt seem to translate to the url to spanish, but just changes menu items. It is possible to use the default file field and allow people to download the pdf.
The drupal 7 views accordion module allows you to build a drupal view with results displayed in jquery accordion tabs. Translate config is pretty straightforward, but i dont know how to translate my views paths. Related images block using views contextual filters if you are not familiar with views contextual filters for drupal 7, it was known as views arguments in drupal 6 and then got renamed for drupal 7. How to import a language and translate the interface in. We detect new text, get machine translations when needed, and mark existing text as still being active on your website. There is also a tickbox for node, which would be your content. Views pdf mime mail projected for drupal 6 as well as for drupal 7. Views is a wonderful module, but i had a problem where i wanted different header content per language. Ill demonstrate how to create this viewas a drupal node with an associated url and menu item, so when youre done youll be able to access it at a url like. Right now i cant figure out anyway to do this besides creating a separate view. The clients site which runs on drupal 7 allows users to create envelopes based on the custom designs submitted by the user through that drupal website. This article will explain how to make a fixed header that appears after the website scrolls up. Customizable header images for your drupal theme lullabot. In this example ill be creating a simple view of the drupal comments database table.
Every once in a while, as a drupal website developer you will come across this problem. There are already some pdf solutions such as print. Acquias websites may request cookies to be set on your device. Drupal is one of the top 3 content management systems cmss in the world, along with wordpress and joomla.
Text area in the header is correctly translated in tried plain text, filter html and full html i can save the. A pdf file, like an image, must first be uploaded to the drupal server. This tutorial shows how to edit the footer info in drupal 7. Each field of the view can be placed on the pdf page directly in the administration interface. See my cheat sheet pdf and the documentation for more on this.
Drupal 8 has the tools to make pdf creation easy and useful to your users, and with the use of composer alongside drupal even more tools become available. So, it becomes feasible to have a single defined view for multiple languages. How to install and configure the drupal views accordion module how to build a simple drupal view using the drupal views accordion module how to change the drupal views settings to alter how the views accordion module works. One of our clients requested us to come up with a drupal based web application to generate a pdf file from an html template. In order to change it, you should go to structure blocks, locate the footer region and edit the. Click documents in the navigation list at the far left. Entity translation operates on the field level and will be the default way of translating in drupal 8. A string containing the header value, or false if the header has been set, or null if the header has not been set. You create a content type and using nodeblock module, you enable that content type for blocks. In the illustration above, note that the title is only translatable if you use the title module. Thanks to ryan szarama for creating a tutorial on setting up a slideshow from beginning to end. The view is working perfectly, you are almost there, but wait, the specification calls for this special piece of markup that well, is different depending on what results you are.
Im having this same problem with some of the other modules as well, for instance the. Drupal core l10n up avoid tedious manual translation downloads. Some good things offered by node translation include support for separate node commenting eg. So the entity translation module was created to provide a way for site administrators and translators to use the new field translation system. The online envelope editor uses an html template during the edit phase of the envelope and generates a pdf file of the. Which modules do what, and which user role is affected by the different caches. Building multilingual sites is now faster and easier than ever. Cookies help us know when you visit our websites, how you interact with us, and what content you view, so we can customize your experience with acquia, including offering you more relevant content and advertising. I will make a lot of views, and they have to be translated not the result of the views but the text before after the result of the request, how can i do. Whats the status for the views header footer translation. We use cookies to enrich and personalize your user experience. In order to translate views header,footer and empty text sections you can use. Essentially, contextual filters intelligently filters content to reduce the result set in various ways and is pretty powerful.
Drupals builtin language handling abilities deliver value to those who need localised digital experiences, saving them time and money in the process. Doing a quick search these are the modules that offer some sort of pdf integration in drupal. This tutorial is aimed at endusers wanting to use this module, rather than web developers. Four core modules in drupal 8 allow full translation of every part of a site. How to make your drupal website multilingual acquia. Drupal 7 explained your stepbystep guide stephen burge with cindy mccourt upper saddle river,nj boston indianapolis san francisco new york toronto montreal london munich paris madrid cape town sydney tokyo singapore mexico city. Building multilingual sites in drupal using the i18n module always throws up a few fun problems to be solved. If youre getting started with drupal 8, there are some key features youll need to master.
This is a tutorial on how to create a view using the drupal views module. How to translate the standard user interface how to translate the configuration custom fields and content types, etc. But these solutions use the html output and converts this to pdf. Im using views to make a list of nodes, filtering by the language chosen with i18n. These buttons will only be displayed when creating a new web page from scratch. Your customers will ask, sooner or later, to have some sort of content generated in pdf be it an invoice, a report, etc. The actual translation is done via drupals standard localization interface. This session is designed to demonstrate and explore real world solutions to the challenges of pdfs at all levels. Identifying these changes will help you translate your workflows to drupal 8, and will also give you clues about how the underlying architecture of drupal has changed. However, this member wanted visitors to read the pdf directly on the site.
1534 279 1292 1099 273 231 664 917 114 1129 930 1370 1003 1420 187 1598 641 1171 1602 1586 594 1156 478 685 1335 365 418 780 1274