Some weird thing on DSpace 9.2 interface

[Joshua Kim]

Hello,

I have been testing our DSpace 9.2 website. After clicking here and there, I suddenly began to see one weird thing [image 1 - showing metadata names]. Would anyone explain this if you know anything about it?

Thanks in advance.

[Michael Plate]

Hi Joshua,

Am 23.03.26 um 16:59 schrieb Joshua Kim:

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welcome to the club.
I sometimes had this, too. In this case the UI fails to load the
i18n-files (the language data, you see the keys which are to be replaced
by the language specific text). For more information on that, have a
look on the json5-files in DSPace's angular application in src/assets/i18n.

If you open the developer tools on your browser and have a look on the
network tab, you should see some 4xx-errors on the not found "en.json5",
or any other language file.

It found no solution to that, but currently, I don't see this on DSpace 9.2.

Do you use the dev or the production mode ?

Michael

[DSpace Technical Support]

Hi Joshua,

Echoing Michael that it sounds like the translation (*.json5) files are not being found.  Just adding a few more links in case they are relevant to you:

• If you might have made any customizations to the translation files, double check the documentation about customizing the files and try a fresh unchanged copy of src/assets/i18n/*.json5.
• If it is only occurring in production mode or has similarities to this past thread, you may need to check for errors or customizations impacting your build process as Tim mentions there.

-Lia

[Joshua Kim]

Hello,

Thank you for your quick response. DSpace has en.json5 file, but the UI looks for the en.json file, NOT en.json5, according to my screenshot from the developer tool. I have attached one image. I have followed your instructions, but no luck. 

Otuoma Sanya posted almost the same problem (https://groups.google.com/g/dspace-tech/c/qp56Whhtvpo/m/N8AGQWUwAgAJ). I followed his quick-fix way, and it works. However, I would like to fix it in a traditional way.

I use NodeJS 22, Tomcat 10, Apache 2.42, and OpenJDK 17. 

Thank you in advance.