Exercise workflow tips

The book is written as a step-by-step tutorial. It is best to work through the exercises in order. If you do jump ahead, just keep in mind that you might need to install and configure additional modules that were addressed in earlier exercises.

It is also recommended that you disable the Overlay module when working through the exercises for a simpler workflow. In many cases, you will need to flush all caches after each configuration to ensure the system is using the latest settings. When something doesn't work as expected, flush the caches and check again.

Working with modules

The module versions used for the book exercises are listed on the demo installation profile project page (drupal.org/project/multilingual_book_demo). These versions are bundled with the demo installation profile software. But, you do not need to use the installation profile to work through the book exercises. If you use different versions of the modules, just remember that you might experience different behavior than what is shown in the book exercises. If any functionality changes drastically, then notes will be added to the errata at kristen.org/errata.

The Drupal Internationalization module, used heavily in the book, is a package of many submodules. If an exercise explains installing a module from the Internationalization package, then you only need to download the package once but you'll still need to enable the submodule that is listed.

Extra topics

A few topics that were not included in the book due to space constraints are available at kristen.org/extra, so you are encouraged to look there before diving into the chapters. In particular, there is a very useful table for seeing how to access the various translation features at kristen.org/accesstable.