Enable Translate Inline only per-session

[colinmollenhour]

The Translate Inline feature is awesome. However, to use it in production is a little problematic since it uses an ip filter to enable it. In an office environment there are easily multiple users using the site simultaneously, some of which should not be allowed to use the inline translate feature and some of which need it disabled so they can use the site. It would be better if the inline translate feature required a specific admin user permission and was enabled by perhaps visiting a special url, or clicking a url/button in the backend that forwarded to a page with the feature enabled only for the given session.

Example:

1. Admin user clicks "Start Translate Inline" with a given store scope specified.
2. A nonce key is generated and stored in the database.
3. The user is forwarded to the selected store home page with the nonce key in a get parameter.
4. The nonce key is verified and deleted and inline translation is enabled for the user via a session flag.
5. The user clicks a "Stop Translating" button to return to normal usage.

[magento-team]

Hello Colin. Great feature request, unfortunately not on our roadmap for now. If you can contribute such enhancement we should be able to accept it.

[paales]

There is a related problem with the translations and caching. If you for example want to translate something in the header it requires you to disable the cache for everyone on the site (or else you are unable to translate the header or after cache clearing everyone else has the {{{ tags in the header), so in an ideal case the cache should be disabled for the session that is currently translating.

[magento-team]

Hello @paales - which cache you need to disable?

[paales]

Translation cache would be handy 😉. The header and footer are block-cached (in Magento 1) so the block cache should be disabled as well.

[magento-team]

@paales Unfortunately this is not on our roadmap but we encourage everyone to provide a pull request with fix.