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HI Lars

I think it is because of a missing culture. are you in the context of a pageview? Would like to see your custom code... 

There is an overload to the translate that also takes a culture - try to use that.

BR Nicolai

Hi Nicolai

I thought the same regarding the culture. Therefore I have already tried Translate(text, defaultvalue, culture) and culture set to "da-DK". But it fails with the same error. I am using the code from my first screenshot above in a Razor page template like this:

Hm , why have a viewmodel and call that inside another viewmodel? Why is it not just a class?

Hi Nicolai

Yeah I know. But this is old custom code made by another person, and I rather don't wont to change it to much. But it worked on v9.3.11

Hi Lars

ok, but you cannot. You need to call the overload with 3 options - or change the product description viewmodel to not inherit viewmodel - as it is lacking context and we fixed a bug related to translations in viewmodel based templates that requires a template instance...

BR Nicolai

Hi Nicolai

How can I call/use Translate() if I don't inherit from RazorTemplateBase<RazorTemplateModel<Template>> ?

Why do you need ProductDescriptionViewModel? Why don't you just call the Translate method directly?

The ProductDescriptionViewModel in your example is not a view model. It inherits from RazorTemplateBase, so it represents a razor template instance.
You should avoid instantiating razor templates inside another razor template like this. Razor templates are instantiated by Dynamicweb when needed.

Anyway...

To make your code work you can change ProductDescriptionViewModel to a simple class and add a constructor which takes an instance of a RazorTemplateBase.
ProductDescriptionViewModel can then call the Translate method on that RazorTemplateBase...

public class ProductDescriptionViewModel
{
 
    public ProductDescriptionViewModel(RazorTemplateBase<RazorTemplateModel<Template>> templateBase)
    {
        this.TemplateBase = templateBase;
    }
 
    private RazorTemplateBase<RazorTemplateModel<Template>> TemplateBase { get; }
 
    public string TranslateProductDescription {
        get {
            return TemplateBase.Translate("(product) Description", "Product Description");
        }
    }
}

Use it in your razor template like this...

@{
    var productDescriptionFooter = new ProductDescriptionViewModel(this);
}
 
<text>@productDescriptionFooter.TranslateProductDescription</text>

ProductDescriptionViewModel is still not a view model, but more like a helper class that doesn't help that much :)

Best regards,
Morten

@ Lars: Just call the translate API directly:

https://doc.dynamicweb.com/api/html/edb97f59-4918-1edd-0f9b-70ca99d0c55d.htm

BR Nicolai

Hi Nicolai and Morten

I went  with Nicolais suggestion:

Dynamicweb.Rendering.Translation.Translation.GetTranslation("(product) Description", Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.Name, new Design(new DirectoryInfo("/Files/Template/Designs/[name]")))

Thank you both