Custom Fields and their translation

Hello,
Is there a tutorial document somewhere on CUSTOM FIELDS and how to translate them?
In specific I am trying to introduce new fields. I can easily translate its title but I cannot succeed in translating its description. Note that currently I am editing the default translation file of that language and I understand that this will be overwritten on a potential update.
Q1: Do I *have* to have a custom language plugin in order for my custom fields to be translated or the temp solution above should be working already?
Q2: Can I have more than one custom language plugins of the *same* language? I.e.one that I have downloaded from JP and one custom made by me, or this will break things?
Thank you.

netizenuk wrote: Hello,
Is there a tutorial document somewhere on CUSTOM FIELDS and how to translate them?
In specific I am trying to introduce new fields. I can easily translate its title but I cannot succeed in translating its description. Note that currently I am editing the default translation file of that language and I understand that this will be overwritten on a potential update.
Q1: Do I *have* to have a custom language plugin in order for my custom fields to be translated or the temp solution above should be working already?
Q2: Can I have more than one custom language plugins of the *same* language? I.e.one that I have downloaded from JP and one custom made by me, or this will break things?
Thank you.

If you are using some html editor you need to edit directly the HTML code and make sure there is no tag (example <p>) in the description - if the description only has the language key (example: MY_FIELD_DESCRIPTION) it should be picked up ok.

OK I got it now. I was doing the right thing with the wrong editor which was adding a <p> in the description and it caused the translation to not work.

Can you please answer Q2 as I now need to start making sure that things wont get lost after an update. Am I supposed to create new (custom) language plugins for eng and the other language and have them working concurrently with the ones downloaded from JP ?

Thank you Niko

You can try a language override plugin otherwise you need to maintain your own language plugin. You can't have 2 language plugins of the same language installed at the same time. See the below for language override usage information.

www.joomlapolis.com/forum/6-news-and-publicity/227556-cb-language-override-video-tutorial-resources

Thank you for the reply.

I have not yet installed and used the override plugin but I watched the youtube tutorials about languages and the override plugin. It does make sense when using language keys but what about having a custom html field in the registration form which we want it to appear in multiple languages? Am I correct to assume that we cannot include html tags in language keys?
If yes, what is the proper way of doing this?

Thank you in advance,
N

but what about having a custom html field in the registration form which we want it to appear in multiple languages?

You'd just add a language key to the Custom HTML field then translate it in your language files.

Am I correct to assume that we cannot include html tags in language keys?

A language key is just to reference a language string. The key can have HTML, but I don't recommend it. Examples as follows.

Recommended:
'MY_FIELD_DESCRIPTION' => '<strong>Test</strong>'

Not Recommended (but should work):
'<strong>Test</strong>' => '<strong>Test</strong>'