Ektron CMS400.NET Administrator Manual

WARNING!
Multi-Language Support
1. For each supported language, create a folder within your Web
site’s images folder. Name each folder according to the
language’s decimal id value (for example, German is 1031).
See Also: ”Appendix A: List of Supported Languages” on
page 511
If your site supports English, don’t forget to create a folder
named 1033.
2. Copy all images to each language-specific folder.
3. Within each folder, translate the text on each image but do not
change its name.
If you change an image’s name, this procedure will not work.
4. Wherever the image is referenced in your template or Web
page, replace the current reference with this:
img src=”images//image name”
For example:
img src=”images//companylogo.jpg”
When a visitor to your Web site selects a language then navigates
to the page with the image, the Contentlanguage variable comes into
play. It uses the visitor’s language selection value to identify the
folder that contains images in that language. That image then
appears on the page.
To continue the above example, if a user views the site in German,
the code that invokes the image translates to this:
img src=”images/1031/companylogo.jpg”
Resolving Conversion Issues
IMPORTANT! This section is only relevant to Web sites that upgrade to Ektron CMS400.NET
Release 4.7 or higher and which, prior to the upgrade, had content in more than
one language. If your site does not meet both criteria, you can ignore this section.
When you upgrade to 4.7 or higher, the Database Upgrade utility
prompts you to select a language. All content in your site is then
assigned that language. (Prior to Release 4.7, content did not have
a language attribute.) If all content is not in the selected language,
you must resolve that discrepancy.
For example, assume for the sake of simplicity that your pre-4.7
Web site had four content items: three English and one French.
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