Customizing the Web Widget V2 (Deprecated)

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Certain components of the Microsoft Translator Widget can be manually edited to support customizations. Below is the list of the string parameters for customization.

Customization of the Web Widget

Sample Widget Snippet

The parameters listed below for Customization can be inserted after the string starting with "/ajax/v2/widget.aspx..." in your Widget snippet.

<div id="MicrosoftTranslatorWidget"...<noscript><a href="...bv.aspx?a=...">Translate this page</a>...</div> 
<script type="text/javascript">/* <![CDATA[ */ ... s.type = "text/javascript"; ... + "/ajax/v2/widget.aspx?mode=manual&from=en&layout=ts";
… </script>

String Parameter	Description
from	Source language of the page.
mode	Translation “behavior” of the widget, default is manual however the user can always override the behavior which persists for the browser session. =manual – Translation is only invoked when the user clicks “go” on the widget. =notify – If the browser locale is different than the page and is a supported MT language then show the toolbar and offer to translate the page. =auto – If the browser locale is different than the page and is a supported MT language then kickoff translation automatically. =preview – The widget appears normally but all functionality is disabled. This is used on the adoption portal.
widget	Whether or not to display the widget control, default is to display it. =none – Hide widget control. Should generally only be applied when mode is notify or auto. It can technically be applied when mode is manual but that would be rather pointless since there’d be no way to invoke translation.
toolbar	Display mode for the toolbar, default is inject. =none – Do not display the toolbar. =inject – Float the toolbar at the top of the window but inject whitespace at the top of the page to accommodate it. =overlay – Float the toolbar at the top of the window but don’t inject any whitespace, which may result in covering the page’s header content. =thin – The toolbar appears narrower (approx 24px tall), the logo is replaced with a small icon and some text that typically indicates the progress percentage.
loc	Override the UI locale, default is according to the client’s browser accept-language setting. We accept any .NET supported language and fallback to English if it is something we do not localize to.
showLanguages	Comma delimited list of additional languages to show. For instance: "/ajax/v2/widget.aspx?mode=manual&from=en&showlanguages=fr,de,it" We accept any valid .NET language however unless the API accepts it the page will not get translated. Note that it is possible to add languages whose names we do not localize in which case the language name will always appear in English.
hideLanguages	Comma delimited list of languages to hide. For instance: "/ajax/v2/widget.aspx?mode=manual&from=en&hidelanguages=fr,de,it"
defaultLanguage	Language code to override the default target language.
ctfLanguages	Comma delimited list of languages to enable for CTF. Allows you to limit feedback to certain languages. For non-CTF widget snippets, this parameter has no effect.
showDashboard	When set to either "false" or "no" the dashboard link is not shown in the CTF tooltip.
category	Use this value as the category field for all API calls. "/ajax/v2/widget.aspx?mode=manual&from=en&layout=ts&category=<category ID>”

While it does not impact the widget snippet there is also a feature that triggers translation on any page hosting the widget by appending “#mstto=(target language)” to the page URL. Here’s an example: "http://blogs.msdn.com/b/translation/#mstto=ko".