Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 23 2024 at 13:06): Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 23 2024 at 13:06):It's possible to change text in the UI but we don't document how to do it. It involves making new versions of Bundle.properties and related files. We should document this, right?
Gwenaël Doux (Oct 25 2024 at 09:08):Ah yes, that could be useful. I had stumbled across this possibility but it wasn't very explicit and I missed the procedure to fully understand. I didn't use this feature in the end, but I may need it at some point. It might be useful for others too.
Dieuwertje Bloemen (Oct 25 2024 at 15:09):Yeah, I also think it'll be useful to document. Maybe something to pick up in a docs meeting, because the location might be up for discussion section-wise.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 25 2024 at 15:11):Sorry, the location of what?
Dieuwertje Bloemen (Oct 25 2024 at 15:14):Of where to document it in the guides.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 25 2024 at 15:48):Oh, right. Hmm. Well, I'd probably default to somewhere on a future version of this loooong page: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.4/installation/config.html
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Oct 25 2024 at 15:48):Or maybe the "how to extend Dataverse" page, once it exists. See #docs > how to extend Dataverse
Dieuwertje Bloemen (Oct 28 2024 at 15:20):I was initially also thinking of the "Style Guide", so it would be closer to the metadata text guidelines. But maybe that's not where a developer would find it. I guess config (or close to it) also makes a lot of sense to me.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Feb 27 2025 at 22:04):Related: #dev > Help with customizing email message
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Mar 11 2025 at 17:58):Related: #troubleshooting > upgrade from 6.3 to 6.4
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 21 2025 at 18:13):Jim just explained it well: https://groups.google.com/g/dataverse-community/c/7868AFIWBnQ/m/dDqZaTvhAQAJ
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 08 2026 at 13:13):@Falco (Copenhagen University Library) just talked about customizing text during the community call yesterday and over at #internationalization > use cases
Renee L. (Jul 28 2026 at 14:53):Can someone provide step-by-step instructions for changing text customizations in the citation.properties file?
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 28 2026 at 15:24):@Falco (Copenhagen University Library) you talked about this recently. Any tips? :smile:
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 28 2026 at 15:35):@Renee L. at a high level, it should involve setting up internationalization. Have you tried following https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.11/container/running/demo.html#multiple-languages yet? I can help coach you through it. I wrote those docs.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 28 2026 at 15:36):In the example, we set up English and French. But if you don't want French, you could just leave it out.
Renee L. (Jul 28 2026 at 15:39):Thanks Philip.
Falco (Copenhagen University Library) (Jul 29 2026 at 07:57):We made custom Bundle_en.properties and BuiltInRoles_en.properties. These files only require the lines that you want to change. This doesn't add a new language to the UI, but modifies the existing default.
Otherwise, we just followed the instructions from the installation guide. I think that our technicians have added all the steps in their installation scripts for automization (they are using ansible).
Falco (Copenhagen University Library) (Jul 29 2026 at 08:11):btw. we haven't customized citations.properties (yet) - I think we'd prefer to use metadata templates instead.
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