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Text constants are short, recurring texts of the shop interface, e.g. “Cart” next to the cart symbol, “Search” in the search bar, or button labels such as “Log in”. Each text constant has a unique tag (e.g. add_to_basket) and a translation per language. At runtime, the shop automatically inserts the text of the currently active language.
Text constants are intended for short interface texts. You maintain longer predefined texts such as email content under Text Modules.

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Text Constants List

Open Administration → Text Constants. The list shows all tags alphabetically. Use Search to quickly find a tag. The toolbar offers:
  • + New: Create a new text constant
  • Edit: Open the selected text constant
  • Activate maintenance view / Deactivate maintenance view: Make tags visible in the frontend (see below)
  • Reload text constants: Refresh the list

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Maintenance View: Finding Tags in the Frontend

You don’t know the name of the text constant for a specific text in the shop? That’s what the maintenance view is for:
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Activate maintenance view

Click Activate maintenance view. The website opens on the homepage. Instead of the stored texts, it now shows the tags of the text constants in the form [#login#].
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Read the tag

Navigate to the location with the desired text and read the tag, e.g. [#login#] for the login button. The tag here would be login.
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Deactivate maintenance view

In the CMS, click Deactivate maintenance view so that the website displays the normal texts again.
Afterwards, you search for the tag using Search in the list and edit the text constant.

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Creating a New Text Constant

Click + New. In the dialog you define:
  • Tag: Unique name of the text constant. The shop references it via this tag.
  • Text per language: There is a separate text field for each language of your website (e.g. de-DE and en-GB).
Save using Save or Save and close.

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Editing a Text Constant

Select a tag from the list and click Edit (or double-click). The editing view shows two areas:
The stored texts per language, indicating language, shop assignment, and text. Using the toolbar, you create another translation with + New, open one with Edit, or remove it with Delete.When editing a translation, the following fields are available:
  • Language: Language for which the text applies (e.g. de-DE)
  • Shop: Optional. If the text applies only to a specific shop, select it here. If the field remains empty, the text applies everywhere.
  • Text: The displayed text
The tag of the text constant. It is fixed and cannot be changed afterwards.
Via the shop assignment, you can fill the same tag differently per shop, e.g. a different wording in the b2b shop than in the b2c shop.

Text Modules

Predefined texts for emails and shop messages.

Languages

Manage language versions of the website.