Automatic emails in multiple languages?

Automatic emails in multiple languages?

by Eric Hartley -
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Firstly, thanks for this plugin - it's great.

I've run a test where I modified the email language strings for German, then booked a session for a test user whose preferred language was German, and I even changed my admin interface to German. But the email still arrives in English. Am I doing something wrong?

In fact, my preferred solution is more complicated - I have a situation where I have users of multiple languages/nationalities. I would like them to receive the automatic reminder email in their preferred languages (as set in their Moodle profile), but for the admin interface to remain in English.

How practical and easy to do would it be to add a further dropdown after the 'email a reminder' option with all the installed languages on the Moodle install (I have eight)? I could then edit the relevant strings in the language customisation.

Thanks.

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In reply to Eric Hartley

Re: Automatic emails in multiple languages?

by Henning Bostelmann -
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Hi Eric,

you're right, the intention is that the preferred language of the recipient is used for these messages. This currently doesn't happen and that's a bug, probably a rather old one. I've created a tracker entry (CONTRIB-5182). Would you mind joining in there and letting me know which Scheduler version you use? It's probably not too hard to fix, but having someone to test the fix is always good.

By the way, if you (or others) have translations of the Scheduler language strings, you can contribute them as http://lang.moodle.org/ for the benefit of other users.


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