Changelog for translators, editors

It would be really great if we had a changelog of content changes. For example:

  1. German translator logs in
  2. He sees a history of changes on the default language with the link to the content record

Right now we have to track this manually and notify translators when something is changed.

Maybe there is a better way of doing this, that’s jut my idea.

Thanks,
Primoz

Could Workflows work for this? Once an edit is “ready for translation”, for example, it could be marked as such. Translators could then see all the “ready for translation” fields and when they’re done, mark it as the next stage: “ready for publication” or similar.

If you don’t have Workflows in your plan and don’t want to add it, maybe you can also mimic its basic functionality by adding a dropdown field to that model, like “Translation status: [New, Updated, Translated]”. Editors would still have to manually switch that dropdown when they update a record, but at least translators can filter by it easily.


(Going to leave this feature request up regardless, just offering some potential workarounds in the meantime!)

1 Like

Thanks @roger. Maybe Workflows could work, I will test it.

Still, the translator would have to manually search for all the records that are in the “Ready for translation workflow”, correct? This will be a bit cumbersome user experience. Would be great if we could have a page with one table that could list all records in current Workflow/Status… Going trough 20 different content-types in the menu and search for all the records would be really slow.

I see Workflows is Enterprise only feature, not sure what the pricing is in this case on top what we are paying for Professional + Translator roles?

Yes, I agree it’s not the easiest for a translator :frowning: They would at the very least have to go through each model. We don’t offer a cross-model view of all the latest changes. I agree that would be helpful for translators and editors!

In the meantime, you can make it a BIT easier for them using a custom menu item that links to a filter, like this:

Example of a custom menu item for a filter (click to expand)

First, filter a collection and then copy its URL

Paste that URL into a new menu entry:

Drag that new menu entry into a section for translators:

But that’s still not very easy. Let’s hope this feature request gets more traction :slight_smile:

I see Workflows is Enterprise only feature, not sure what the pricing is in this case on top what we are paying for Professional + Translator roles?

I’ve reached out to our Enterprise specialist to see if he can give you some quotes. I’m not sure if it’s available as an add-on to your existing plan (sorry, I’m still newish to support, and don’t have access to pricing stuff yet!)

If it’s out of your budget, you can still accomplish something similar (for a simple workflow like this) using the custom field I mentioned above: Changelog for translators, editors - #2 by roger

1 Like

Thank @roger; I will give it a try what you suggest… Will share the feedback.