_Translating Confluence

Showing User Interface Key Names for Translation

For those customers working on creating translations of the Confluence user interface, from 4.1 onwards there is a feature that will help. After opening the Confluence dashboard, you can simply add this text to the end of your Confluence URL, like so:

?i18ntranslate=on

Then press Enter.

This will then cause each element of the user interface to display its special key name while Confluence is still in an interactive mode. This makes it easier to find the essential context for each key, which can then be searched on http://translations.atlassian.com where you can enter an appropriate translation for your custom language pack.

The key names are displayed with a "lightning bolt" graphic between elements of the names. For example, the buttons will show up with elements shown like so:

CONF41_translations_feature.png

For example, for the Browse button, the associated key system.space.menu can be found on http://translations.atlassian.com, allowing you to write a better translation for the term Browse, being able to see the full context of where the UI element belongs and what it means to the user.

To turn off the translation view, add this code to the end of the Confluence URL:

?i18ntranslate=off