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By default, the InProduct translation for the JIRA add-on lets everyone create translations.
This can be a very useful way to crowd source the translation rather than relying on an in-
dividual, such as the administrator, alone. However, you can also restrict access to transla-
tions by group:
1. Navigate to
Administration
|
Issues
|
Access Management
.
2. Select the groups that should have access.
3. Click on
Apply
to restrict access.
You can also review the translations you have and package them as a language pack. You
can then deploy this to your other JIRA instances as follows:
1. Navigate to
Administration
|
Issues
|
Translations
.
2. Click on the
Download As Language Pack
link to generate your language pack's
.jar
file, as shown in the following screenshot:
Another good use of a language pack is to customize terminologies used in JIRA, rather
than go for translation. For example, if you are using JIRA as a general purpose ticketing
system, you might want to change all occurrences of the word "issue" to "ticket", to avoid
confusion. In this case, you can create a language pack that simply changes that one word,
as shown in the previous screenshot, where we have changed terms such as
Issue Linking
to
Ticket Linking
.
