Wow. Sounds like you're getting to the core of things. Well, I can only suggests workarounds as follows:
Idea (1): (Ab)use the labels for a different Locale where-ever the other merchant wants another wording behind the scenes. That is, say you use the "de" labels for the other merchant while unchanged "en" labels are good for one of both. The issue there is: There is no way (at least I did not find it) to start the ecommerce application with a locale other than the default one. This will be true for both shops, i.e. one of your merchants will always need to change the Locale, or at least login, before they can see their custom locales. Idea (2): Just hardcode any specific lable for your second merchant in the copy of the ecommerce application. If it is a customisation for a single merchant and not re-used ... well that sounds the most feasible thing to me. Do a "uiLabelMap" text search in the webapp and widget directories of your copied ecommerce application and you should be seing fairly quickly what the amount of elements is that need to be changed. This is then of course disable any locale change with your copied application. So Locale change must not be a requirement for that app. The ideal scenario is that you go by Locale flavours in analogy to e.g. en_US, en_UK etc. That would mean you only need to maintain your deviations on the UiLabelmap files (but in turn need to make sure all your language flavours are defined in the Locale Change functionality configuration), but *is that worth it*? Its a trade off between making this a re-usable change (and hence the community will expect you to share this at some point) or is this really a freaky-spleeny idea of your customer / the merchant which would be withdrawn once the (cost) impact is made clear to them? So I recommend to ask them whether this is a nice to have or a hard requirement that they want to pay for. Not sure whether this sounds clear and can give you some guidance. Let me know. Regards Carsten 2009/9/10 Florin Popa <[email protected]> > Hello Carsten, > > First of all thanks for your detailed answer. > I am a bit affraid it did not reach the core of my question - because my > idea is: > - one single Ofbiz instance > - inside this instance there are 2 shops running for 2 separate merchants > - I have a single set of I18N files for English > - one merchant wants to have all "search" buttons with the label/text > "Search" > - the second merchant wants to have the same above labels but with a > different text like "Find" > > Best regards, > Flopa > > Check >> >> http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/Guide+to+OFBiz-i18n%2C++Internationalisation+of+OFBiz >> >> which is still WIP, but could probably point you to some ideas of what >> needs >> customisation. >> >> As for content pages: Use the CMS. >> >> Regarding the default language for two ecom applications, my impression is >> that the ecommerce default language settings and the one for the ofbiz >> instance are identical. >> >> I have asked the list about experience with distributed setups ... no >> answer >> so far. >> >> An idea (but no guarantee it works) would be e.g.: >> * run different instances of OFBiz with different default language >> settings >> which would be using the same database. >> * next you would probably not want to start all the backoffice >> applications >> with the ecommerce app and vice versa ... >> >> So it can get complex soon. >> >> Well, as for i18n -- check the FAQ or start with the doc mentioned above. >> Feel free to send comments on that doc directly to me or use the >> Confluence >> commenting options. >> >> Regards >> >> >> Carsten >> >> 2009/9/9 Florin Popa <[email protected]> >> >> >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Considering an Ofbiz instance running and offering 2 different /ecommerce >>> sites, how is it possible to have customized I18N texts for each >>> /eccomerce? >>> >>> I am currently using an Ofbiz 4.0.x version. >>> >>> Any help would be really appreciated. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Flopa >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > > -- Best Carsten Schinzer Waisenhausstr. 53a 80637 München Germany
