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Even if you do not want to correct the translators' work, you might want to change the wording they chose to use (less formal, less wordy, etc.), and customize the various available text, thus tailoring your website to your audience (for instance, a hip-hop clothing shop might be better off by replacing "Hi!" with "Yo!"using expressions different from that of a luxury watches shop).
"Translation exchange" section
The "Translation" sub-tab provides a few tools for your translation needs.
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Many languages are available for your to download and install, directly from the PrestaShop servers. Your PrestaShop install will take care of downloading the language pack, unpacking it and create the correct sub-folder in your install's /translation folder.
You can also update the currently installed languages, likewise directly from the PrestaShop servers. But be reminded that any change that you might have made to a language pack will be lost if you update it.
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In the case where you do not want to use an official PrestaShop translation pack, but rather a custom one (either provided by someone you know, or one that you exported from another PrestaShop install), then this form is for you. Select the zip Zip file, click the "Import" button, and it will install the pack in the /translation+ folder. Warning: if there already exist a language folder with the same ISO 639-1 code, it will be replaced by the files from the archive you are importing.
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Either as of a way of backuping your customizations, or of sharing them with other PrestaShop installs, you can create your own language pack using this form, which .
Note that the pacl will contain the theme that your pack translation is supposed to support.
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Click on a section title to open or close it, edit at will, and click on the "Update Translation" button at the top of the page when you are done.
At the right of each text field is a an icon. :
- Hover the mouse cursor over it to display the Google Translate suggestion.
- Click it to apply the suggestion.
Quick Access
PrestaShop has handy shortcuts to your most important pages, which can be accessed through the "Quick Access" menu, at the top of every page of the PrestaShop back-office.
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The "Quick AccessesAccess" sub-tab enables you to create customized shortcuts in order to make your navigation within the admin area even easier.
You will see The page displays all the shortcuts that have already been created. You can create as many shortcuts as needed – just don't overdo it, obviously.
Click "Add New" to access this the creation form:.
Let's create a shortcut the "Tracking" sub-tab of the "Catalog" tab.:
- Give the shortcut a unique name.
- Indicate the page's address.
- Go to the "Tracking" sub-tab.
- Copy it's address; for instance, http://www.myprestashop.com/admin42/index.php?tab=AdminTracking&token=6ebfba8b18a50168a20a97fb9614d750
- Paste the important bits (i.e., not the domain and admin folder, and not the token): index.php?tab=AdminTracking
- Indicate whether you want to have this tab open in a new window or not.
- Save.
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PrestaShop enables you to quickly import seven types of information filesdata:
- categories,
- products,
- versions,
- customers,
- addresses,
- manufacturers,
- suppliers.
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Imported data file must be in text-file, using the a CSV-based format (Coma Separated Value), and the accompanying .cvs file extension. We recommend using a semicolon ";" as a separator.
You can create such a file using any text editor (we recommend Notepad++), but we do advise you to use a spreadsheet program, such as the commercial Microsoft Excel or the free software OpenOffice.org Calc, then save your work in the CSV format. Using a spreadsheet program enables you to have an easier and more visual grasp of your data, in comparison to the plain text file.
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- The price column will use your store’s default currency.
- Categories are to be specified using their existing IDs (so you should have imported them first), and separated with a comma.
- The URL of the image must be specified in full. In other words, the link that may
be used in a web browser to display the image. Example: http://www.myprestashop/images/productXXX.gif - File encoding should be UTF-8, or ISO-8859-1 at worst.
Uploading the file
Once you have all your data in CSV format, you can upload it them to your store's database using the form in the "Import" sub-tab of the "Tools" tab. Load your file from your computer by clicking "Browse", confirm by clicking "Upload".
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Note that all import files are uploaded directly in the admin folder's "/import" sub-folder. If the CSV File drop-down menu gets too crowded, you can delete old imports directly using your FTP client.
The second next steps will be worked out on this screen:the screen that then loads.
Presented in this table are the rows from your CSV file, placed under arbitrary columns matched to PrestaShop's database needs. It is up to you to make sure that all the columns from your CSV file are matched with the correct column header, using each header's drop-down menu, so as to import your content correctly.
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Once you are done match your columns, click the "Import CSV data" button, and you're done!
Matching
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configurations
The matching process can be a tedious task if you cannot customize your CSV file's columns order according to that used by the PrestaShop importer, and even more so if you have to do that repeatedly or frequently. That is why PrestaShop includes a small tool to save the current matching order that you have set up using all the headers drop-down menus:
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