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<span class="pageTitle">Translate template tokens</span>
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{{DISPLAYTITLE:Pages}}
  
[[Main Page]] > [[User manual]] > [[UM-5|UM-5 Translate content / interface]] > [[UM-5.3|UM-5.3 Translate interface]] > UM-5.3.1 Translate template tokens
 
  
[[Image:UM-5.3.1.png|500px|right|thumb|Some interface element names include template tokens]]
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[[Main Page]] > [[User manual]] > [[Translate]] > Translate static pages
  
  
The names of some [[user interface]] elements include template tokens.
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[[Image:translateStatic.png|500px|right|thumb|Translate content of static page: English to French shown.]]
  
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[[Glossary#Editor|Editors]] and [[Glossary#Administrator|administrators]] can edit these [[Glossary#Static page|static pages]], which are just text with HTML tags stored as [[Glossary#Database content|database content]].
  
'''Tokens''':
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For more on customizing [[Glossary#Page|pages]], see [[manage pages]].
  
*Are variables whose value is determined dynamically by the context.
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To translate a [[Glossary#Static page|static page]]:
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# In the [[Glossary#Language menu|language menu]], click the language into which you want to translate
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# Navigate to the [[Glossary#Static page|static page]] you wish to translate
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# Click the Edit button in the [[Glossary#Button block|button block]]
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# Enter or edit the translation in the box below the [[Glossary#Page|page]] text
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# Always include the HTML coding in the translation
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# Click the Save button in the [[Glossary#Button block|button block]] to save the translation
  
*Are represented by a number enclosed in percent signs (e.g. "%1%").
 
  
*Must be included in the translation, but because different languages have different grammar rules, translators need to be aware of the type of information being handled in any given variable in any given context.
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[[Category:User manual]]
 
 
 
 
The table below enumerates in English the elements whose names include tokens and for each gives a brief explanation of the nature of the variable and the context in which it occurs.
 
 
 
<br clear="right">
 
{| style="width:95%; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 201, 201);"
 
 
 
|-valign="top" align="left" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 243, 243); "
 
 
 
! style="width:15%;" |
 
Element name
 
 
 
! style="width:25%;" |
 
Variable
 
 
 
! style="width:55%;" |
 
Context
 
 
 
|-valign="top" align="left" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(240, 240, 255);"
 
 
 
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%1% profile
 
 
 
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User's account name
 
 
 
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Returns the user's account name in the [[system menu]]; clicked by the user to edit his or her [[user profile]]; appears on all screens.
 
 
 
|-valign="top" align="left" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 243, 243);"
 
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list all %1%
 
 
 
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Entity type
 
 
 
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Returns the type of [[entity]] being viewed on the current screen (e.g. [[archival description]]); appears as part of text on the [[list all button]] on [[Edit screen|edit screens]].
 
 
 
|-valign="top" align="left" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(240, 240, 255);"
 
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edit %1%
 
 
 
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Entity type
 
 
 
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Returns the type of [[entity]] being viewed on the current screen (e.g. [[authority record]]); appears as part of the [[screen title]] on [[edit screen|edit screens]].
 
 
 
|-valign="top" align="left" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 243, 243);"
 
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list %1%
 
 
 
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Entity type
 
 
 
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Returns the type of [[entity]] being viewed on the current screen (e.g. [[archival institution]]); appears as part of the [[screen title]] on [[List screen|list screens]].
 
 
 
|-valign="top" align="left" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(240, 240, 255);"
 
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view %1%
 
 
 
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Entity type
 
 
 
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Returns the type of [[entity]] being viewed on the current screen (e.g. [[archival description]]); appears as part of the [[screen title]] on [[View screen|view screens]].
 
 
 
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Translate content of static page: English to French shown.

Editors and administrators can edit these static pages, which are just text with HTML tags stored as database content.

For more on customizing pages, see manage pages.

To translate a static page:

  1. In the language menu, click the language into which you want to translate
  2. Navigate to the static page you wish to translate
  3. Click the Edit button in the button block
  4. Enter or edit the translation in the box below the page text
  5. Always include the HTML coding in the translation
  6. Click the Save button in the button block to save the translation