Bootstrap OPAC: Alert banner can't be translated

[Terran McCanna]

In 3.6 Bootstrap OPAC:

There's a new OPAC alert banner that is controlled in config.tt2 (ctx.maintenance_message) but there doesn't seem to be a way to add a translation that can be switched when the locale picker changes.

(As a workaround, the translation can be added in the same message string so that both show.)

[Linda Jansova (skolkova-s)]

Looking at the code at https://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=Evergreen.git;a=blob;f=Open-ILS/src/templates-bootstrap/opac/parts/config.tt2;h=7409a4b4ec44b9f24ecc0910f3999ccc9acba8e3;hb=HEAD (line 197), it seems to me that the string is still not marked for translation in the current code.

[Jason Stephenson (jstephenson)]

Marking the current string for translation won't be good enough because it is meant to be changed as the situation warrants.

Translating the alert message would require some additional code to detect the currently chosen language and a way for staff or an administrator to add translated versions of the alert message so that they can be picked appropriately.

[Jason Stephenson (jstephenson)]

This came to me after hitting "Post Comment:"

As a bonus, it would be nice to make it changeable/displayable via the staff client, preferably with a permission to control it. This way, it would not require access to the web server to be able to update the message.

[Terran McCanna (tmccanna)]

Re comment #3 - there is a wish list for that at https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1903873