[siim.rooba]

Hello,

My e-shop is www.nose.ee
It is in estonia language but now I'm translating it also to english. My problem: I want to use the same storage information (how much products are in the store and all the gallery) with both languages but I only want to change product description from estonia to english (also the storefront). So I need the same database and two different language descriptions. My english isn't so good to make it more easier.
How is it possible? With 17$ per month premium account?

Thank you,
Siim

[Makfruit]

Originally Posted by siim.rooba

Hello,

My e-shop is www.nose.ee
It is in estonia language but now I'm translating it also to english. My problem: I want to use the same storage information (how much products are in the store and all the gallery) with both languages but I only want to change product description from estonia to english (also the storefront). So I need the same database and two different language descriptions. My english isn't so good to make it more easier.
How is it possible? With 17$ per month premium account?

Thank you,
Siim

Ecwid storefront and back-end interfaces are available in many languages. Moreover the number of translations are growing very fast, because all of them are contributed by Ecwid users. Please refer to the 'Tranlations' article in our database for the details. The store changes the interface language basing on the language preferences in a visitor's browser (a corresponding language should be enabled in the store settings). You can enable/disable languages by going to System Settings > General > Languages.

Regarding the product descriptions in your store, unfortunately, there isn't built-in feature in Ecwid to have multilingual descriptions yet. But we understand that it is very important for many Ecwid users. So it will certainly be added in the future. By the way, it is one of the top suggestions in our ideas base. Please vote for it to get it implemented sooner:
http://ideas.ecwid.com/forums/22031-...

In the meantime, there is a possible workaround, which, however, requires some manual work and may take a significant time if you have many products in your store. Here is it:

1. Add the descriptions in two languages to each product. You will need to edit a product description in HTML mode. Use the following format:

<div class="ecwid-custom-product-descr en">
… description in English ...
</div>
<div class="ecwid-custom-product-descr et">
… description in Estonian ...
</div>

2. Then add the following CSS code to your custom CSS theme:

div.ecwid-custom-product-descr {
  display: none; 
}
body.ecwid-lang-en div.ecwid-custom-product-descr.en {
  display: block !important; 
}
body.ecwid-lang-et div.ecwid-custom-product-descr.et {
  display: block !important; 
}

This code will switch language of a product description on the product details page automatically depending on a visitor browser's language settings.

Please notice that this way you can change the descriptions only on the product details page. Neither product names nor product short descriptions in the list view can be altered with the help of described trick.

[IBIZA RUTAS]

Hello
I tried this trick in my test store, you can see in Shop Test in the product category experiences and landscapes.
You can cer that if you select to change menu language from the top of the web for example German or Spanish, the text changes with this trick you have posted. in the form of view GRID
Question:
you can apply the trick to view product in the form LIST
Shop for IBIZA RUTAS would be better to present products in the form of LIST view



Thanks for your help

Enrique
IBIZA RUTAS

[Makfruit]

Originally Posted by IBIZA RUTAS

Hello
I tried this trick in my test store, you can see in Shop Test in the product category experiences and landscapes.
You can cer that if you select to change menu language from the top of the web for example German or Spanish, the text changes with this trick you have posted. in the form of view GRID
Question:
you can apply the trick to view product in the form LIST
Shop for IBIZA RUTAS would be better to present products in the form of LIST view



Thanks for your help

Enrique
IBIZA RUTAS

Hello Enrique,

Yes, the technique described in this thread may be helpful if you want to show different product descriptions depending on the customer's language. However, as I mentioned in the previous post, neither product names nor product short descriptions in the list view can be altered in this way, unfortunately.

There is another workaround though. Since you've actually placed your store widgets on different pages (/de/pruebas-de.html, /es/pruebas.html, etc.), you can display different catalogs for different languages. It can be done by means of the 'hidden categories' technique that allows to have several root categories and display only one depending on some conditions. So, if you create five root categories and put the same subcategories and products (with different titles and descriptions) in each of them, the customers will see a multi-language store. Please refer to this article for the information of this technique:
http://kb.ecwid.com/w/page/27229589/...

However, this way has some drawbacks:
- you'll have to create a duplicate with different title/description for each of your products and subcategories,
- the inventory tracking will not work because there will be several copies of each product in the store with different SKUs.

Hope it helps.

[mediterrania]

What do yo think about my idea, it's possible ?
My site now is only in catalan language and I'm making another one site with the same products, in spanish language
Now all the descriptions of categories and products are only in catalan.

My idea:

Duplicate and translate all, descriptions, options, categories, etc., to the second language
Create two parent categories: CAT and ESP and publish them in both sites
Put all inside, categories and articles CAT in parent category CAT, categories and articles ESP in parent category ESP.

Do you see any problem ?

[Makfruit]

Originally Posted by mediterrania

What do yo think about my idea, it's possible ?
My site now is only in catalan language and I'm making another one site with the same products, in spanish language
Now all the descriptions of categories and products are only in catalan.

My idea:

Duplicate and translate all, descriptions, options, categories, etc., to the second language
Create two parent categories: CAT and ESP and publish them in both sites
Put all inside, categories and articles CAT in parent category CAT, categories and articles ESP in parent category ESP.

Do you see any problem ?

Yes, it is possible. I think it's a good idea. Please also refer to this article (the solution is mentioned there):
http://kb.ecwid.com/w/page/27229589/...

Please let us know if you have any questions.

[mediterrania]

I've created a special css to hide store main link as you told here:
http://kb.ecwid.com/w/page/27047779/...

I've published it, but then I've seen that the other personalized css that I had were disabled...
Now I test with the two css together so:

span.ecwid-categories-category {
font: normal 15px "trebuchet MS", helvetica, verdana, sans-serif;
color: #FFF5A5;
div.ecwid-productBrowser-categoryPath-storeLink, span.ecwid-productBrowser-categoryPath-separator-first {

display:none !important;

}

but the second css doesn't works.

[Makfruit]

As far as I can see, the CSS code you listed contains a syntax error - a closing bracket is missed before the second rule. The correct code looks like this:

span.ecwid-categories-category {
  font: normal 15px "trebuchet MS", helvetica, verdana, sans-serif;
  color: #FFF5A5;
}
div.ecwid-productBrowser-categoryPath-storeLink, span.ecwid-productBrowser-categoryPath-separator-first {
  display: none !important;
}

[mediterrania]

Originally Posted by Makfruit

As far as I can see, the CSS code you listed contains a syntax error - a closing bracket is missed before the second rule. The correct code looks like this:

span.ecwid-categories-category {
  font: normal 15px "trebuchet MS", helvetica, verdana, sans-serif;
  color: #FFF5A5;
}
div.ecwid-productBrowser-categoryPath-storeLink, span.ecwid-productBrowser-categoryPath-separator-first {
  display: none !important;
}

Thanks !

Two more things:

How can I decide which categories to show in my roKecwid categories module ?
I want the module shows only some categories in each language site.

What can I do to restrict roksearchecwid module to search only is that categories ?

[Makfruit]

Originally Posted by mediterrania

Thanks !

Two more things:

How can I decide which categories to show in my roKecwid categories module ?
I want the module shows only some categories in each language site.

I am sorry, it is not clear for me. Could you explain better and give an example?

What can I do to restrict roksearchecwid module to search only is that categories ?

Ecwid supports several features that can make search more specific or more wide. Please refer to this article for the details:
http://kb.ecwid.com/w/page/50662453/...

However, I am afraid it is not possible yet to limit search results by category.

Frankly speaking, if you want ESP and CAT versions of your catalog to be different not only in language of labels and product/categories descriptions, but also in many other things (different search results, shipping/payment options, email notifications and other settings), I would recommend you to create two separate stores. In other words, it would be more convenient for you in such case to register another Ecwid account and configure the second store. What do you think?