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Topic: How do I change a specific translation via the /translate interface

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Answers how you find and replace a particular translation that has a certain "key".

This assumes that you have read the following:

http://old.kete.net.nz/documentation/topics/show/276-general-strategies-for-creating-a-localization-of-the-kete-ui-for-13

Here's the original question (paraphrased):

I have a individual translation that is wrong for a specific word and I need to change it. How do I go about this?

Here's a breakdown of the process of changing that specific word (using "password" as an example) where it is reused in other translations:

1. go to your site's /translate interface (assumes you have a version of your site running in development mode)
2. change the to field to the locale you are translating, e.g. "fr" for French
3. add password to the key contains text field
4. click the search button

In this case, you'll notice a lot of "{{t.base.password}}", in all of the translations that show up. What you want to do is change the "base password" translation that that corresponds to. So repeat the process, but this time get more specific:

1. go to your site's /translate interface (assumes you have a version of your site running in development mode)
2. change the to field to the locale you are translating, e.g. "fr" for French
3. add base.password to the key contains text field
4. click the search button

Now you only get one translation. That is the one you want to change. The "t." is not to be included in the search as it means "this is a reference to the translation named" to the computer and therefore the key in question is "base.password".

Now replace the value for the base.password translation and all other translations that refer to it will also be updated as well as when it is referred to directly by templates.