Support for Drupal 7 is ending on 5 January 2025—it’s time to migrate to Drupal 10! Learn about the many benefits of Drupal 10 and find migration tools in our resource center.On https://www.drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/language-content-config.html, step 5, the 2nd sentence reads “Enabling translation for fields that are numbers or dates has use for accountability or implementing workflows.” I don’t quite understand what that means. Can someone give an example or elaborate? Is "accounting" meant, instead of "accountability"? As in, to translate/convert currency numbers? And what about "implementing workflows"? Can someone give an example of what is meant here? As someone new to building multilingual sites, I'm confused.
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
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| #6 | clarification_question-2918539-6.patch | 746 bytes | Amber Himes Matz |
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Comment #2
jhodgdonGood question!
Let's see... As far as workflows go, I think that would mostly apply to date fields. For example, you might want to "translate" the 'authored on' or 'changed' dates for a piece of content in order to say that the English page was authored on Jan 1, but the French page was authored on Feb 4 (or whatever the translation date was).
I have no idea what "accountability" would mean in this context though, and I don't think we'd specifically need to mention accounting for numeric fields. Hm.
So maybe we should just remove this sentence entirely, so that the paragraph only says:
???
Comment #3
jhodgdonI also looked up the issues where we originally wrote/edited this topic. I found:
#2541668: Write language-content-config.txt -- this text was in the original writing of the topic
#2711103: Content edit: language-content-config.txt -- left that text and added a table of fields/values to that item
#2788943: Copy edit language-content-config.txt -- nothing about this text there
So, I guess we didn't ever question it since it was originally written.
Comment #4
Amber Himes MatzThanks for explanation and re-wording suggestion! I agree with your suggestion to remove that sentence entirely. +1
Comment #5
Amber Himes MatzCreating a patch...assigning to myself.
Comment #6
Amber Himes MatzHere's a patch removing the confusing sentence. Also removed an extra line break which is why the diff is a little odd.
Comment #7
Amber Himes MatzComment #8
jhodgdonLooks great to me, thanks!
We'll need to notify the translation groups about the change, so adding tag and I'll get it committed probably tomorrow.
Comment #9
jhodgdonAlthough maybe we should get a second opinion from Joe, just in case he knows what it means and we should reword rather than remove?
Comment #10
eojthebraveNope. I'm not clear on what that sentence means either. I assume it's intended to try and help clarify when/why you would translate something like an integer field or a date, but as written I don't find it helpful. I'm fine with removing it. I think the intricacies of what to translate and when are probably better suited for the community documentation's multilingual guide here https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/multilingual
Comment #11
jhodgdonThanks Joe.
At the moment, I don't see anything at all useful in the Multilingual Guide, but who knows, more content could appear.
Anyway, I'll get this committed later today or at least soon.
Comment #12
jhodgdonCommitted, and I'll send out the translation notification now.
Thanks again Joe and Amber!