Sitecore Dictionaries

Hi All, In this post we will see about the use of dictionaries in Sitecore

Here you go,

• When you are working in Multi language sites,you must know about the sitecore dictionaries.Because when you translate your site, some information cannot be translated(ex.static texts,Button text etc).To overcome this sitecore introduced a dictionaries.
• Sitecore dictionaries are useful when you want to translate hard-coded texts(ex:button text)

You can find dictionary in the path

                         /Sitecore/System/Dictionary

Dictionary entry helps

                        1.Translating static content

                        2.Translating field names

                        3.Adding help text.

Dictionary Domain

• Used for fallback mechanism(if certain key is not found then sitecore searches key in the fall back domain).
• It’s defined in the site configuration.
• Entries cannot be used for client translation.

Steps to add Dictionary entry

Step 1: Navigate System/Dictionary ,Right Click Add new dictionary Entry

             Note that the entry includes two fields

                          Key     - Unique key

                          Phrase- Value that replaces after translation.

Note :Do not use the keyname same as template field names. Because sitecore will automatically use the dictionary item to translate the fieldnames. Please refer below image the field name Home replaced by it’s key value raj.

Please refer above image the Home FieldName gets replaced.

Step 2: Refer your key in your page .

            Sitecore dictionaries available in the namespace: Sitecore.Globalization

                To refer a dictionary entry:

 @Sitecore.Globalization.Translate.Text("Home")

All now set.publish and value will be replaced after translation.

Translate By domain

                    Suppose if you have two different domains, sitecore also provides a facility to translate a text by domain.

Step 1: Add a new domain under system Dictionaries, based on the template(Sitecore/templates/System/Dictionary/Dictionary Domain)

Step 2: It’s simple, just change the API.

@Sitecore.Globalization.Translate.TextByDomain("mydomain","Home")