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[Mary Ann Wellington Friend Mary Ann WellingtonJoin date: September 2014Posts: 95Downloads:22Uploads:4 Thanks: 9 Thanked: 5 times in 1 posts]

#179484

Hello, few questions and comments about joomla 2.5 + JobBoard 1.0 Stable + multilanguage + latin chars

JB + Multilanguage:

I’m building a job board website on a test server, I need multilanguage support. I installed Job Board 1.0 beta for Joomla 2.5, and then upgraded to Stable version this week through ja extensions manager. I’m using template Beez2 Park Site, nice and simple. Multilanguage is working for Menus, Modules and contents, also for the module of the job board that I translated by copying the languages/en-GB/en-GB.mod_jajobboard_menu.ini to languages/es-ES/es-ES.mod_jajobboard_menu.ini and translating the KEYS.

All fine UP to here, but when I open the Candidate/Employer registration page, I get no translation of the KEYS found at languages/es-ES/es-ES.com_jajobboard.ini, which is the original en-GB.com_jajobboard.ini copied, renamed and translated.

Any idea or help to succeed with the multilanguage support? I have read wiki and documentation for it.

I have some special needs but I think job board is not yet ready for them, e.j.: Select language when an employer post a job offer; make the custom forms (registration, profile, etc) language selectable, so that I can have different forms for different languages (is this possible?), otherwise I cannot translate the Labels; Categories & Locations multilanguage…

Does JobBoard continue development for Joomla 1.5?, in this case: is it easier to manage multilanguage using Joomfish? Which version of JobBoard is more advanced, for joomla 1.5 or 2.5?

Latin Chars:

I’m using English / Spanish main languages to build my JB website. When I changed the Locations and Categories to Spanish ones using Latin characters (accents, etc), I got all of them displayed badly on the front end forms.

I solved this issue by adding utf8_decode() function calls at the following code lines:

-com_jajobboard/controllers/jajobalerts.php lines 130, 132: replace “$value->name” by “utf8_decode($value->name)”

-com_jajobboard/views/jajobalerts/view.html.php line 336: replace “echo $r” by “echo utf8_decode($r)” at function loadClAjax()

Thanks for your support. Maryann.

[Thanh Nguyen Viet Friend Thanh Nguyen VietJoin date: September 2014Posts: 1461Downloads:0Uploads:44 Thanked: 258 times in 217 posts]

#462556

Hello Maryann,

regarding multilingual issue, I have some note:

– Joomla 2.5 itself supports multilingual. But with native way, you have to duplicate everything (every menu, duplicate menu item for each language, duplicate articles, etc). And Job Board component does not support create multiple lanugage content by this way yet

– JoomFish isn’t yet available for Joomla! 2.5

– But there is another optinal alternative to Joom!Fish for Joomla 2.5, it is a Falang component. You can read more information about this component in JED

About error of Latin characters, I’ll create an issue in our bug tracker system and assign it to dev team. They will check and fix this issue later.

[Mary Ann Wellington Friend Mary Ann WellingtonJoin date: September 2014Posts: 95Downloads:22Uploads:4 Thanks: 9 Thanked: 5 times in 1 posts]

#462593

What about development of job board for j1.5?, still in progress?, perhaps j1.5 + jb + joomfish is an alternative to j2.5 + jb…,

I succesfully translated j2.5 job board modules, copying the english files and translating them, but it does not work for the component itself, do you know where can i find the code lines where the language file for the component is loaded? To try custom code depending on the language used on the website…

My default language for the web is spanish, both in front and back end, but JB component still displays in english only, although i have both admin and front files translated to spanish, perhaps JB developers hard coded language en-GB into the component code?

Thanks.

As for the latin chars, my fix is working fine.

[Mary Ann Wellington Friend Mary Ann WellingtonJoin date: September 2014Posts: 95Downloads:22Uploads:4 Thanks: 9 Thanked: 5 times in 1 posts]

#462621

Installed FALANG as suggested, but it just allows me to translate the modules, categories, menus and content, same as default language manager native from joomla, or is there any content elements I can install to Falang to have access to JB component translations?, the content elements are used also in Joomfish, seems that FAlang is a fork of Joomfish for J1.7, J2.5.

Is there any content elements that can be installed into Joomfish or FALang?

[Thanh Nguyen Viet Friend Thanh Nguyen VietJoin date: September 2014Posts: 1461Downloads:0Uploads:44 Thanked: 258 times in 217 posts]

#462635

Hello Maryann,

Job board for J1.5 is no longer developed, we only provide limited support to current member who are using this version.
About language file of component, it works normally as other extension does. Could you please give me your admin detail and FTP account for further checking. I think that your spanish file has some issue so that it is not loaded properly.

Regarding multilingual issue for job board content, I need raise this issue to JB team for disscussion. So, we need chose a solution for this issue and apply for next version (support as native way of Joomla or write a plugin to work with other translation component as version for J15 did)

[Thanh Nguyen Viet Friend Thanh Nguyen VietJoin date: September 2014Posts: 1461Downloads:0Uploads:44 Thanked: 258 times in 217 posts]

#462655

Hello Maryann,

I have discussed with JB team about multilingual issue. And we decided to develop this feature as the way Joomla 2.5 provide. That means, administrator/employer will select a language that Job board item (job, category, …) is assigned to.
The cause of this decision is Job board is contribution network, and Job is posted by user, so user will select a language that job will be displayed (does not need translate it to all languages)

I have created issue on our bug tracker system for this feature, you can check its status at http://pm.joomlart.com/browse/JAJBJ25-165

We’ll start to develop this feature after version 1.0.1 is released.

I’m sorry about my suggestion of Falang component, we will not develop a plugin to work with this component.

[Mary Ann Wellington Friend Mary Ann WellingtonJoin date: September 2014Posts: 95Downloads:22Uploads:4 Thanks: 9 Thanked: 5 times in 1 posts]

#462707

Ok thanks, I’ll post my advances here about multilanguage support. How long will it take to have it supported by j2.5 native way?

[Mary Ann Wellington Friend Mary Ann WellingtonJoin date: September 2014Posts: 95Downloads:22Uploads:4 Thanks: 9 Thanked: 5 times in 1 posts]

#462723

I reviewed my Spanish translated files, and the error was that translated strings did not have double quotes (“) at the begining and end. I solved the issue by adding the quotes to each string. (KEY=”spanish text”). Now the component strings gets translated. I’ll keep working to add support for forms and other features. Perhaps it will be good to have access to your development, I think I openend an account to your PM platform.

Thanks.

<em>@Dead Code 332330 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hello Maryann,

Job board for J1.5 is no longer developed, we only provide limited support to current member who are using this version.
About language file of component, it works normally as other extension does. Could you please give me your admin detail and FTP account for further checking. I think that your spanish file has some issue so that it is not loaded properly.

Regarding multilingual issue for job board content, I need raise this issue to JB team for disscussion. So, we need chose a solution for this issue and apply for next version (support as native way of Joomla or write a plugin to work with other translation component as version for J15 did)</blockquote>

[Thanh Nguyen Viet Friend Thanh Nguyen VietJoin date: September 2014Posts: 1461Downloads:0Uploads:44 Thanked: 258 times in 217 posts]

#462753

<em>@maryann 332417 wrote:</em><blockquote>Ok thanks, I’ll post my advances here about multilanguage support. How long will it take to have it supported by j2.5 native way?</blockquote>

It might take a month to develop and test this feature. Because we need update almost forms and queries of component.

[Mary Ann Wellington Friend Mary Ann WellingtonJoin date: September 2014Posts: 95Downloads:22Uploads:4 Thanks: 9 Thanked: 5 times in 1 posts]

#464570

Hello,

Just working on my test site again with Job Board + Spanish + English.
I need my Job Seeker and Company registration forms in both languages, is it possible to do that?, if so: how?
At the moment I translated my forms Labels and options to Spanish, but it shows only in Spanish when I’m on english version…
Any work on this direction? Any way to select language when creating or editing a form?

Regards.

[Thanh Nguyen Viet Friend Thanh Nguyen VietJoin date: September 2014Posts: 1461Downloads:0Uploads:44 Thanked: 258 times in 217 posts]

#464688

<em>@maryann 334875 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hello,

Just working on my test site again with Job Board + Spanish + English.
I need my Job Seeker and Company registration forms in both languages, is it possible to do that?, if so: how?
At the moment I translated my forms Labels and options to Spanish, but it shows only in Spanish when I’m on english version…
Any work on this direction? Any way to select language when creating or editing a form?

Regards.</blockquote>

Hello Maryann,

issue has been created in our bug tracker system (http://pm.joomlart.com/browse/JAJBJ25-179).
We will release this feature for the next version

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1. Mary Ann Wellington

[Mary Ann Wellington Friend Mary Ann WellingtonJoin date: September 2014Posts: 95Downloads:22Uploads:4 Thanks: 9 Thanked: 5 times in 1 posts]

#467058

<em>@Dead Code 335061 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hello Maryann,

issue has been created in our bug tracker system (http://pm.joomlart.com/browse/JAJBJ25-179).
We will release this feature for the next version</blockquote>

Hi Dead Code,

I installed v1.0.2 jobboard upgrade, tested multilanguage shortly by editing some form field, also categories and Locations. All seems to be working fine as spected. Thank you. I’ll continue testing the platform.

Mary.. 😎

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