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  • Alastair Gordon 5 posts 95 karma points
    Mar 27, 2019 @ 15:38
    Alastair Gordon
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    Umbraco 8 - Custom Dashboard - Language Settings

    Hi,

    This I suspect is going to be a total Newbie question, which is fair because although I have been developing FOR a couple of Umbraco 7 sites, this is the first time I have deployed/developed a brand new Umbraco site.

    One of the tools I need for Admins of this site will be to set percentage surcharge figures onto prices being returned from an external webservice. As a result, I wanted to add a new top Section called 'Surcharges' (e.g 'Content Media Settings ... Surcharges).

    When I add this to the package.manifest for the Surcharges folder in App_Plugins, nothing appears:

    "sections": [ { "alias": "surchargeSection", "name": "Surcharges"}],

    I can however get a link to appear within the Content section using the following:

    "dashboards": [{
  "alias": "Surcharges",
  "view": "/App_Plugins/Surcharges/surcharges.html",
  "sections": [ "content" ],
  "weight": 100
} ]

    However, this renders out the word 'Surcharges' with additional [] brackets:

    Content links

    Anyone got a clue how to get a new Section or at the very least how to get rid of the square brackets?!!

    Thanks in advance!

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  • Marc Goodson 1451 posts 9716 karma points MVP 5x c-trib
    Mar 27, 2019 @ 20:59
    Marc Goodson
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    Hi Alastair

    There is some documentation here: https://our.umbraco.com/Documentation/Extending/Language-Files/Language-Files-For-Packages/

    about adding 'language files' for packages,

    With a custom section etc in the backoffice, the name is used as a 'key' to look up the relevant translation of a name to display in the appropriate language for the current user.

    So if you create a folder called 'Lang' in your /app_plugins/mycustomsection folder

    and in there add a file called en-us.xml

    (the name of the file matches the language code of the user, en-us is usually the default)

    and in this file and the following xml:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<language alias="en" intName="English (US)" localName="English (US)" lcid="" culture="en-US">
  <area alias="sections">
    <key alias="Surcharges">Surcharges</key>
  </area>
</language>

    then you should 'lose the square brackets'

    regards

    marc

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  • Alastair Gordon 5 posts 95 karma points
    Apr 01, 2019 @ 10:54
    Alastair Gordon
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    Hi Marc,

    Thanks for the response. It's still stuck with [] though!

    So, I've now got a folder structure like:

    enter image description here

    The package.manifest looks like:

    { "dashboards": [ { "alias": "Surcharges", "sections": ["settings"] } ] }

    and the en-US.xml file is:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<language alias="en" intName="English (US)" localName="English (US)" lcid="" culture="en-US">
  <area alias="sections">
    <key alias="Surcharges">Surcharges</key>
  </area>
</language>

    and I still get:

    enter image description here

    Ideally I'd like a whole section up here:

    enter image description here

    But that can wait... ;)

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  • Warren Buckley 2089 posts 4578 karma points MVP ∞ admin hq c-trib
    Apr 01, 2019 @ 12:09
    Warren Buckley
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    Hi Alastair
    Marc is close but the key's are slightly wrong

    https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/blob/v8/dev/src/Umbraco.Web.UI/Umbraco/config/lang/en_us.xml#L2119-L2130

    So the area with the alias sections needs to change as following

    <area alias="dashboardTabs">

    Then that should work.

    Cheers,
    Warren :)

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  • Alastair Gordon 5 posts 95 karma points
    Apr 01, 2019 @ 12:20
    Alastair Gordon
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    Thanks Warren! Much appreciated! :D

    Thanks also to Marc for getting me closer than I was before his original reply!

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