use one language for shop and other for administration page

[cocoa117]

Hi

 

Is it possible to use one language for shop say French, and only display that language for the site. But when login to administration page (back office) allow more then one language? Say French and English?

 

Some of our admin prefer one language then others, while our site visitor should only see French language shop site.

 

Is this possible?

 

thanks

Edited January 19, 2015 by cocoa117 (see edit history)

[El Patron]

Hi and welcome to the forum.

 

yes, you can import any language pack, back office-->localization-->localization

 

then disable the language back office-->localization-->languages

 

then you can use the language in back office,  but it will not be available to front office

[cocoa117]

Hi El Patron

 

For some reason, the above method didn't work for me. Here is what I did 

 

(1) Login to the back office using SuperAdmin account

(2) On the left select -> Localization -> Language. On the right hand page, there are two languages showing as currently enabled. And both of them are showing Enabled in the Enabled column. 

(3) By click on the unwant it one, the page refresh automatically and now showing page in single language (e.g. French). 

(4) How do I make the back office language still using say English, which is the one just been disabled? I can see the whole front end shop is display in French only.

 

Can you advice? I assume there some steps I have missed.

 

Thanks

[cocoa117]

Found it !!!!!

 

The step (4) should do following

 

(4) On the top of My preferences, select the language back to English, and whole thing back to English!!!! The shop frontend remains in French.

 

Very nice!!!

[parsifal]

I noticed some similar topics in the past. And now, after seeing one more, I'm seriously considering reporting this behavior as a bug.

 

Since:

1. There is a per-user language preference in the BackOffice

2. It's possible to use a language in the BO, which is disabled in the FO

 

...it really makes no sense that disabling a FO language would lead to a silent change in the BO user's language preference. :-\

Edited January 26, 2015 by parsifal (see edit history)