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Editable Templates and Experience Fragments with MSM

  • October 23, 2018
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Per this thread, Translating Editable Template , there is a suggestion to use content or experience fragments in an editable template for translation. 

I have gone down this road using 6.4 to little success.  I have tried using Fragment translation two ways, within and outside the variants.  The issue is within the editable template the Experience Fragment path is not translated from en to the other languages.  What is the best practice for header and footer content using fragments and MSM?

Here is what I have tried:

  1. I created a sites with multiple locals in the 6.4 standard with language masters and languages which roll out to regions and locales. 
  2. I created an experience fragment with the language structure siteName/language/fragmentName
  3. I create a live copy of the fragment languages
  4. AEM properly created the fragment in the new language with inheritance setup
  5. I broke inheritance to change the root path for the main menu and image link path
  6. I added the header fragment to the editable template as a component
  7. I rolled out changes to all locales
  8. Header fragment remained en
  9. I added a header container to the template
  10. Authored a fragment component in the header container with the content fragment en path
  11. Changes automatically rolled out to other locales
  12. Fragment path was still en on all locales

Example Content paths

Fragment paths:

  • English: /content/experience-fragments/smith/en/global/master.html
  • French: /content/experience-fragments/smith/fr/global/master.html
  • French within Experience: /content/experience-fragments/smith/en/global/header-french.html

Page paths:

  • English: /content/smith/language-masters/en.html
  • French: /content/smith/language-masters/fr.html
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Best answer by Ankur_Sial

Hi again,

As of now, translation workflows do not look for templates. Therefore, please use Experience Fragments directly inside pages or use i18n. Refer to Translating Editable Template for more details.

15 replies

kautuk_sahni
Community Manager
Community Manager
November 16, 2018

Checking this with internal team.

Kautuk Sahni
Level 2
November 19, 2018

Hi

It seems that the Experience Fragments are used inside editable template. For translating content, please use Experience Fragments directly inside pages and not through templates. Let us know if you face issues with the same.

Level 2
November 19, 2018

Yes, the issue remains the same and it does not solve how to translate the header and footer within a page.

smacdonald2008
Level 10
November 19, 2018

Are you saying that Experiecne Fragments are not translated when you use them on their own?

Level 2
November 19, 2018

I can translate the fragments individually.  The include of the fragment on the page does not update to match the language of the page.

smacdonald2008
Level 10
November 19, 2018

@Ankur Sial - issue is still here - any suggestion - should a support ticket be logged?

Ankur_SialAccepted solution
Level 2
November 20, 2018

Hi again,

As of now, translation workflows do not look for templates. Therefore, please use Experience Fragments directly inside pages or use i18n. Refer to Translating Editable Template for more details.

Level 2
November 20, 2018

Hello Ankur,  If templates are not looked at for translation workflows then what is the Adobe recommended approach for creating a header a footer for multi-lingual sites?  If they cannot be in the template then we need to go back to the iparsys approach so everything is translated correctly without impacting the authoring. 

November 27, 2018

Hi, were you able to find a solution to this problem? We have the same scenario and can't figure out a way of having translated header and footer into several languages if it is not with the static templates iparsys approach. Thanks!

Level 2
November 28, 2018

I have not yet. This is for a sale pursuit we are actively working.  If it progresses I will spend more time finding the correct solution using editable templates.