In the velocity email templates please split the ${ssSharer} variable because it holds "user shared". It makes it hard in any other language to use that. In German it needs to be something like "user has a folder shared". So, it is necessary to split the variable in to two, in order to create a correct sentence.

It would be nice too, to have an overview of the variables that are available for the velocity templates. And I talk about the Vibe/Filr specific ones like {ssSharer}.

by: Christian W. | over a year ago | Web Client

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• I would also like to see a list of all the macros/variables available to the email templates. ${ssSharer} should never hold additional text strings, just a username value

  by: Tim S. | over a year ago

• You can edit the strings used by the email templates in the messages.xx file (in /opt/novell/filr/apache-tomcat/webapps/ssf/WEB-INF/messages)

  by: Robin R. | over a year ago

• This is really something we would expect in documentation.
  Please provide variables list and support for translations to other languages.

  by: Mare S. | over a year ago

• Robin, you're right that these strings can be edited.
  Anyway the problem persists for the ${ssSharer} variable since in German this string needs to be splitted into two strings. (This is what Christian indicated besides the fact that it would be nice to get a list of variables being documented somewhere.)
  So for the German locale it can be seen as a bug. Thx

  by: Erik E. | over a year ago

• I can't believe this hasn't been fixed or it seems the problem even understood. You don't need to be German to understand that locale specific syntax should never be embedded in a variable. Just put the name in the variable and allow us to prepare the rest of the text according to locale!

  by: Tim S. | over a year ago

• Today we had another look at the issue...
  
  We're talking about this snippet in the sharedEntryInvite.vm template:
  ==
  ..
  <div class="email-share">$esc.html(${ssSharer})</div>
  <div class="email-url"><a class="email-anchor" href="$ssVisitor.getInvitePermaLink($ssSharedEntity, $ssShareEncodedExternalUserId)">$esc.html(${ssSharedEntity.Title})</a></div>
  <div class="email-expire">$esc.html(${ssShareExpiration})</div>
  ..
  
  For the German locale this results in:
  ==
  <Username> freigegeben
  <Filename&Link>
  Diese Freigabe hat kein Ablaufdatum
  ==
  
  --> This is grammatically incorrect!
  
  The following would be correct.
  ==
  <Username> hat
  <Filename>
  freigegeben.
  Diese Freigabe hat kein Ablaufdatum.
  ==
  
  This is hard to handle with a single variable ( ${ssSharer} ).
  A fix would be to change "share.notify.sharer={0} freigegeben" to something like "share.notify.sharer={0} hat das folgende Element freigegeben:"
  (or something similar). Then the default message would be grammatically correct.
  
  HTH
  Cheers
  Erik

  by: Erik E. | over a year ago