Axero offers powerful multilingual tools to help communities share knowledge and resources across diverse languages and cultures. These tools make it easy for users to read, create, and manage content in their preferred language—whether through automatic translation or curated language versions.
There are two main translation options in Axero: Dynamic Content Translation and the Multi-Language Content Manager.
Each serves a distinct purpose and uses a different translation method.
Axero provides integration with the Google Cloud Translation API to dynamically translate content on the fly. Using fast and dynamic machine translation, you can quickly view content in your own language with just the click of a button. Content in the original language is replaced immediately on the page.
To change user-created content to your language, click the language icon in the content header.
If enabled on the site, dynamic language translation is available in Articles, Blogs, Broadcasts, Cases, Discussions, Ideas, Photos, Videos, and Wikis.
Enterprise Feature
The Multi-Language Content Manager simplifies managing multiple language versions of your content. It gives content creators and moderators control over the translations for different languages while sharing a single set of comments, read confirmations, likes, etc., across multiple language versions.
When new language versions of content are created, people will see the content in their preferred language in search, the Activity Stream, and content lists. If the person’s preferred language is not available, the content will be available to them in its original language. They can click the language button in the header of the content detail pages to switch between available languages.
Language versions are available in Articles, Blogs, Files, Ideas, Photos, Videos, and Wikis. If a site has Google Translate integration enabled, then the dynamic content translation described above will be available for Cases and Discussions.
People with permission to edit the content can create a new language version or edit any existing version. To translate the content into another language, simply click the language icon in the content header. Click "Add language version" and choose the language for the new version from the available options. It will display all languages enabled on your site.
If the Google Translation API is configured, you will receive a prompt to use Google Translate.
The system will queue the translation and notify you once it's complete. Clicking on the notification takes you to the edit mode for that translation. The translated content remains in draft mode until you decide to publish it, allowing you to review Google's translation.
In the absence of API configuration, no prompt will appear, and the translation will be skipped. Instead, you'll be taken to the editor to translate the content manually.
When reviewing the version history, you'll notice separate records for each language, providing a detailed overview of the changes explicitly made in that language.
The Multi-Language Content Manager checks for pending translation requests on a scheduled interval, with a default of 10 minutes. You can adjust this interval in Control Panel > System > System Properties by updating the MultipleLanguageContentIntervalInMinutes system property and entering the number of minutes the system should use when checking for translation requests.
The Multi-Language Content Manager also simplifies the management of translations for both videos and photos in albums, allowing each language version to have its own unique media. By maintaining independent media for each language, localized content can feel authentic and relevant to viewers in different regions, thereby improving the overall effectiveness of the translated content. Specific language versions of videos and photos can be copied, moved, or downloaded, making multilingual content management more efficient.
Language versions for both videos and albums can be accessed and managed through the language dropdown menu in the header, enabling seamless switching between translations. Each language version is managed separately, and changes to one version do not affect the others.
Example: Dropdown menu for selecting language versions in videos
Example: Dropdown menu for selecting language versions in albums
From the video page, choose to Add a Language Version and select the language for the new version. Upload the video and featured image for the selected language as you normally would.
Note: Featured images can only be customized for uploaded videos.
Once saved, you can download the specific language version of the video you need.
From the album, choose Add Language Version and select the language you wish to add. Once the language version is added, navigate to the image, go to the gear icon menu > Edit, and replace the image for that language version.
Once saved, the updated image will be shown when the corresponding language version is selected.
If the content is translated, all images within the content are included in the translated version. If a new image is added to one language version, it is easy to add to other existing language versions from the Image Library on the edit page. Simply click the image from the library to add it at the cursor point in the body editor.
Translated versions of Files can be added and managed using the Multi-Language Content Manager. Editors with the Update All Files permission can upload versions of the same file in multiple languages while maintaining shared elements like comments, read confirmations, and likes across all versions.
When Language Version Control is enabled in Localization Settings, the language icon appears in the header of file content.
Clicking Add language version opens a language selector.
After selecting the language, a modal opens where you can upload the translated file, enter the title, description, featured image, and tags for that language. The uploaded file must match the format of the original — for example, if the original is a .pdf, the translated version must also be a .pdf. If the format differs, an error message will appear.
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Once saved, the translated version becomes accessible in the selected language and appears consistently with other supported content types in widgets, search results, and content listings.
To view editing history, open File History from the file options menu. You can switch between languages to see who updated each version, when updates occurred, or roll back versions if needed.
If content has different featured images for different languages, content widgets, the Activity Stream, and content pages display the featured image for the selected site language. If no featured image is defined for a language, the primary language image is used.
Supported content types include Articles, Blogs, Wikis, Files, Videos, Photos, and Ideas.
To streamline language management, follow these steps:
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