Associate Base Language articles with other languages
Estimated Reading Time: 2 MinutesThis article explains how one can associate Base Language articles with other languages. This feature is only available in the latest update of version 9.0.
How to use this feature:
- First of all, you will need to set one of the languages as "Base Language" so that all of its articles will act as ’master’ articles.
- There will be one master article (in the base language, for example, English) and rest of the articles will be its translations in other languages.
- On the front-end ’view article page’, the user will see a section which will contain the list of languages (except the current article) in which other translations of that article are available so that end-user can switch to any language version of that article. For example (in English): This article is also available in the following languages.
- On Add / Edit Article pages in the admin area, there will be a new option called "Base Article" to select the master article for building relationships with the article being added/edited. This option will only be available for the create/edit article section of non BASE languages. So, if you have set ENGLISH as the base language then this option will not be available when you try to create/edit an article in ENGLISH language.
- With this option of selecting “Base Article”, you will be able to search the master article either by its title or ID. For example, if you are creating/editing a Chinese article named “如何安装 Cisco VPN?” in the Chinese language, you will be able to select its English article named “how to install a Cisco VPN?” either by typing its Article ID or keywords from its Article Title. You will then see a list of all articles that match the search criteria provided that they are not already associated/related with any Chinese article.
- On Preview Article (that opens when one clicks on Article Title) section, you will see two tabs:
- Articles Details - It will display article-specific details like article title, keywords, content, attachments, etc (like they are being displayed now)
- Article Translations - It will list the translated versions (copies) of that article in other languages.
That’s all!
- Applicable To: Standard (Multi-Language) Edition, Enterprise Multi-Language Edition (MySQL), Enterprise Multi-Language Edition (SQL Server)