Translate content metadata

In addition to captions and subtitles, JWP enables you to translate your content metadata into any language when using content types. Content metadata is visualized in your app to provide the viewer with more information about a media item.

Translating metadata offers you a host of benefits:

• Expanding to a global market of viewer groups
• Improving user experience in the native languages of viewers
• Increasing revenue opportunities through language support

Prerequisites

{
  "metadata": {
    ...,
    "languages": [
      {
        "code": "en",
        "name": "English"
      },
      {
        "code": "de",
        "name": "Deutsch"
      }
    ]
  }
}

{
  "param": "composer",
  "label": "Composer",
  "required": true,
  "details": {
    "field_type": "input",
    "placeholder": "Enter composer",
    "translatable": true
  }
}

Add a translation

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The app provider is responsible for displaying specific translations to the viewer and setting the default language. You may set any language as the default for your app.

Follow these steps to translate your content metadata:

1. From your Media Library, select a media item. The media details page appears.

2. Click the Translations tab. Your loaded Languages appear.
   

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   If you have not added any languages to your content types schema, a callout appears noting that No languages are available.

   

3. Select a language. The Translation panel opens and displays your translatable fields.
   

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   By default, the Title and Description fields will appear in the panel.

   To add any additional fields, you must set the translatable property of the content type schema field to true.

   All translatable fields that are not part of the default language will appear with a language code postfix (defined when adding the language).

4. Enter a translation into each text field.

5. Click Apply. The Translation panel closes.
   

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   The Status column of the Languages section will alert you whether a translation is Completed or still has Empty fields.

6. Click Save.

Edit a translation

You can edit an existing translation at any time. Follow these steps to update a translation:

1. From your Media Library, select a media item. The media details page appears.
2. Under the Translations tab, your translated Languages appear.
3. Select a language. The Translation panel opens and displays your translatable fields.
4. Enter a new translation into your desired text field.
5. Click Apply. The Translation panel closes.
   

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   The Status column of the Languages section will alert you whether a translation is Completed or still has Empty fields.

6. Click Save.

Delete a translation

Your translation definitions are associated with your content type schema. The deletion of a content type from a property or media item does not affect translation metadata. The translation definitions will be stored as custom parameters. Deleting a content type only affects the visualization of metadata in apps and the validation of metadata in the JWP dashboard.

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Changing the content type schema may alter the appearance of the Translations tab for a media item. Deleting a language from the content type schema will remove the language from the Translations tab.

Follow these steps to delete a translation:

1. From your Media Library, select a media item. The media details page appears.
2. Under the Translations tab, your translated Languages appear.
3. Select a language. The Translation panel opens and displays your translatable fields.
4. Delete the text from your desired translatable field.
5. Click Apply. The Translation panel closes.
   

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   The Status column of the Languages section will alert you whether a translation is Completed or still has Empty fields.

6. Click Save.