Translations

JS Jobs ships in English. Components → JS Jobs → Translations downloads ready-made language files for it from the JS Jobs translation server at joomsky.com.

Needs joomsky.com

This screen works only while your server can reach https://joomsky.com/translations/jsjobs/v1/ over HTTPS, and it needs the PHP cURL extension. If the server can’t be reached you see “Unable to connect to server” or “Could not reach the translation server”, and nothing is changed.

Installing a language

1. Install the language itself in Joomla first (System → Install → Languages). JS Jobs follows the language Joomla is using; it has no language setting of its own.

2. Open Translations and click Get Translations. A table lists the languages on offer:

   Column	What it shows
   Language	The language name and code, such as de-DE.
   Keys	How many texts the translation covers.
   Updated	When the translation was last published.
   Status	Not installed, Installed (your copy matches the published one) or Update available.
   Actions	Install, Update or Reinstall.

3. Click Install (or Update) on the language’s row. A message confirms that the language has been saved, and the table refreshes.

The list is kept for 12 hours, so a translation published in the meantime may not appear until then.

What gets installed

One file per language: administrator/language/<code>/<code>.com_jsjobs.ini (for example administrator/language/de-DE/de-DE.com_jsjobs.ini). JS Jobs loads this file on both the administrator and the front end, so it translates both. Module and plugin texts are not part of it.

Before writing the file, JS Jobs checks it against the checksum in the server’s list and cleans it: HTML is stripped from the texts, and any text that lost a %s or %d placeholder is left out so the English one is used instead.

Your own changes are kept

If you have edited an installed file by hand, Install and Update refuse to overwrite it (“The local translation file has been modified, so it was not overwritten.”). The header of each installed file says the same thing: put local changes in Joomla’s language overrides (System → Manage → Language Overrides) instead, so updates can still be installed.

Related settings

Two settings in the #__js_job_config table belong to this screen. Neither is on the Configurations screen.

Setting	Default	What it does
translations_manifest_url	empty	The address of the list of translations. Empty means the joomsky.com list. Another address is used only if it starts with https://, or http:// on a local development host.
translations_auto_install	0	In 1.5.3 nothing reads this setting; translations are only installed from this screen.