- 06 Aug 2024
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Language filter strings
- Updated on 06 Aug 2024
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To help translators or developers you can enable the Show origin of language strings setting. When this option is enabled, if you add the parameter strings=1 to a request URL, it will show the language file and string ID beside each string that is output.
To enable this setting, follow these steps:
- Go to Quick-access menu > Development > Debugging.
- Check the box next to
Otherwise, after following the steps to change a word or phrase you will see these filter options.
Filter option | Description | Notes |
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Show strings of these components | Click or Ctrl+click to select one or more files that contain the string you want. | Components represent the areas, modules and plugins within Totara. |
Customised only | Check this field to display only those strings that have already been changed within your site. | - |
Help only | Check this field to display only contextual help text. | Contextual help is identified by a question mark icon. |
Modified only | Displays only the strings that have have been changed since last saving the string into the language pack. | Customised strings (already saved in a file) are highlighted in green. Modified strings (not saved in a file yet) are highlighted in blue. |
Only strings containing | Insert one word or a phrase that must appear in the string. For example, if you enter the word 'learner' here, you will get only those strings that contain this word. | The Only strings containing filter can be used to perform a complete search for a term used in your Totara site for the selected language pack. |
String identifier | If you know the string identifier (it is the first parameter of the | For example: totara_appraisal.php, report_participation, certificate.php |