Add "Translate" link to contextual content links.

[olafgrabienski]

Description of the need

When referenced content items are displayed on a page as "Rendered entity", single items can be edited and deleted using its contextual links. On multilingual sites, I would expect there also a contextual link to translate an item. Without such a link, the translation workflow is quite complicated.

Proposed solution

For content types with enabled translation, add a "Translate" link in the contextual links of referenced or otherwise embedded nodes (e.g. a view with content teasers). The path should be node/NID/translate (or node/NID-REFERENCED/translate?destination=node/REFERENCING-NID).

Alternatives that have been considered

A custom or contrib module could provide such a link. In my opinion, it makes however sense to have the feature in Backdrop core. (Drupal 8+ does so, by the way.)

Draft of feature description for Press Release (1 paragraph at most)

Backdrop now includes contextual links to improve the content translation workflow.

[argiepiano]

@olafgrabienski here you go, PR backdrop/backdrop#4662

Adding contextual links is very simple - just a one-line change! Gotta love Backdrop!

[olafgrabienski]

Thanks a lot for the PR @argiepiano, how wonderful! I've tested the PR in the sandbox site: It works as expected on a page with referenced content, and it works also in the Views block of promoted content on the home page.

Screenshot:

[olafgrabienski]

I've added [UX] to the issue title, for "user-experience improvement". As such, it can be part of a bugfix release, so I'm adding the milestone candidate - bug label as well.

[indigoxela]

Cool, I wasn't even aware of that 'context' key.

RTBC 👍

[olafgrabienski]

Many thanks for reviewing! Adding the bugfix release milestone.

(I see, there is one failing test. A typical 'not related' one?)

[quicksketch]

Nice tiny little change here! I merged backdrop/backdrop#4662 into 1.x and 1.27.x. Thanks @argiepiano, @olafgrabienski, and @indigoxela!