Problem/Motivation
I spent two hours figuring out how to update translation strings for contributed modules. I followed these steps:
- Enabled Interface Translation module
- Went to admin/config/regional/translate
- Searched for the strings I wanted to translate using the filter -- no luck
- Paged through the list of strings -- no luck
- Found that the list of strings changed in length depending of when Interface Translation module -- a rabbit trail
- Google search on "drupal 8 t() string translation" -- lots of information but none pointing to admin/reports/translations
- Read https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/api/translation-api/overview a few times -- no luck
- Found a footnote about the only strings available in admin/config/regional/translate are core
- Found admin/reports/translations -- finally!
I know this is sad -- especially to those working with these functions daily -- but it is true.
Proposed resolution
Add a note to the top of admin/config/regional/translate. Something like: String translation for contributed modules can be found at admin/reports/translations. This small change will help the next person using this function for the first time.
Remaining tasks
Get it committed.