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The basic procedures for exporting or importing widget resources are in Export or import widget resources.
Upgrading translated widgets
When widgets are translated, they are saved as a customized version of the widget. For core widgets, this means that after upgrading the site, upgrade updates and new features will not be immediately exposed on the translated widgets.
To upgrade a widget with the new updates and features yet still preserve the existing translation:
- Navigate to Control Panel > System Administration > Site Administration > Widget Studio > Manage Widgets.
- Select the check boxes beside the desired widgets.
- Click Import resources. The Import Widgets dialog window appears.
- Browse to the exported widget resource file.
- Select Merge resources from the drop-down list.
- Click Import. This enables new resources to be added or ignored and existing resources to be kept or removed.
None of the selections made are applied until the Import button is clicked. At that time, this change is applied in the database and will affect all nodes in the Telligent Community Server server environment.When changes are committed, all widgets with imported resources will be versioned. The factory default implementation is no longer used.
Update translated widget defaults after an upgrade
If you want to keep the applicable translated resource information and get the new widget features post-upgrade, you can do this with the Revert option. To get new features post-upgrade:
- Navigate to Control Panel > System Administration > Site Administration > Widget Studio > Manage Widgets.
- Select the widgets that should be reverted to their updated/factory-default version by clicking their check boxes.
- Click Delete/Revert Selection.
This will open the Revert Widgets dialog box. - You're presented with options to execute the same options for all the import widgets, or apply them selectively. If you want to do so for all the widgets, apply these instructions to the All fields rather than the individual widgets' fields.
- In the first drop-down list (All), select Merge with factory default. This will trigger other drop-down lists to appear for the widget. In the third drop-down list, select Merge factory default resources. This option enables you to keep the translations while reverting the widget implementation.
- Click Revert.
Additional notes:
Making these selections enables the existing resources to be reviewed with respect to the current factory default implementation. Resources can be kept or removed and missing/new resources will be identified.
None of the selections made are applied until the Revert button below the merge options is clicked. At that time, the change is applied in the database and will affect all nodes in the Community Server server environment.
When changes are committed, all widgets with merged resources will continue to be versioned (not using the factory default implementation), but the factory default implementation will be reverse-imported into the versioned implementation of the affected widgets. This results in a factory default implementation with the customized language resources.