This article covers a Bloomreach Experience Manager version 13. There's anupdated version available that covers our most recent release.

Taxonomy Plugin Localization

Introduction

Goal

Localize your taxonomies.

Summary

The Taxonomy Plugin supports localization out-of-the-box. Category names and descriptions can be translated within the taxonomy editor. Supported locales can be configured per taxonomy.

The labels for taxonomy fields in document types can be translated using resource bundles.

Taxonomy Category Localization

Categories in a taxonomy can be localized. The desired set of languages can be specified when the taxonomy iscreated in the setup application.

If the set of available languages doesn't contain a language you want to add, you can add it manually through theBloomreach Experience Manager Console at

/content/taxonomies/[taxonomy-handle-node]/[taxonomy-node]/@hippotaxonomy:locales

For example:

/content/taxonomies:  /exampletaxonomy:    jcr:primaryType: hippo:handle    /exampletaxonomy:      jcr:primaryType: hippotaxonomy:taxonomy      hippotaxonomy:locales: [en, nl]

Since version 4.1.0, any valid locale name (for example,en,en_US,en_GB,nl,nl_NL,nl_BE) is supported. Up to 4.0.x, only languages were supported (for example,en,nl).

A category can be localized by specifying a (translated) name and description for each language in the taxonomy editor:

The localized information for a category is stored in hippotaxonomy:categoryinfo nodes as follows:

/content/taxonomies/exampletaxonomy/exampletaxonomy:  /Transport_and_infrastructure:    jcr:primaryType: hippotaxonomy:category    hippotaxonomy:key: Transport_and_infrastructure    /hippotaxonmy:categoryinfos:      jcr:primaryType: hippotaxonomy:categoryinfos      /en:        jcr:primaryType: hippotaxonomy:categoryinfo        hippotaxonomy:name: Transport and Infrastructure        hippotaxonomy:description: Transportation and Infrastructure description      /nl:        jcr:primaryType: hippotaxonomy:categoryinfo        hippotaxonomy:name: Transport en infrastructuur        hippotaxonomy:description: Beschrijving transport en infrastructuur    /Air_transport:      jcr:primaryType: hippotaxonomy:category    /Public_transport:      jcr:primaryType: hippotaxonomy:category

Taxonomy Field Translations for Document Types

The taxonomy field of a document type can be translated using theresource bundles that were introduced in Bloomreach Experience Manager 11. To change the name of the field, go to the CMS Console, navigate to the node

/hippo:configuration/hippo:translations/hippo:types/[project-namespace]:[document-type]/[language]

and add a property named hippotaxonomy:keysin which you can set the name of the field.

You can also use a generic name for all languages by navigating to the node

/hippo:namespaces/[project-namespace]/[document-type]/editor:templates/_default_/classifiable/cluster.options

and adding a propertycaption that will contain the field name. It is also possible to set this property through the document editor interface of the CMS (the same applies to the "hint" field)

This only applies to the default taxonomy field (using thehippotaxonomy:classifiable mixin), when using a secondary taxonomy on a document, please seethis page.