CalcBuilder Forum

Feature Request and Translation Support for CalcBuilder

User thiagobarreto2 2025-07-24 17:38:23

Hi Moonsoft team,

I hope you’re doing well.

I’m currently using CalcBuilder and have a couple of questions and suggestions regarding its usability:
1. Translation of Input Error Messages
Messages such as “Please write a valid number”, “Some values are incorrect”, or “Value must contain only 2 decimals” appear in English, and although I’ve tried to translate them by editing the files, these changes are lost every time I update the component.
Is there any official method to translate or customize these validation messages, or could this functionality possibly be added to the component settings?
2. Calculator Organization – Categories or Grouping
I’m now managing a large number of calculators, and soon I’ll have over 300 calculators. Managing them all in a single list is getting difficult.
It would be extremely helpful to have category grouping or folders to better organize them.
3. Backup Improvement
Currently, I can only export calculators one by one, selecting each individually for download. This process is quite time-consuming.
Would it be possible to implement a feature to download multiple calculators at once, or backup a whole category/group?

Thank you for the great tool and your continued support!

Best regards,
Thiago

Moonsoft support 2025-07-25 11:29:47

Hi,
please find below our comments to your requests:

1. Translation: those error messages are now integrated into the default Joomla translation system, using the language files. If you go to the calcbuilder files :

joomla\language\en-gb\com_calcbuilder.ini (for component view)
joomla\language\en-gb\mod_calcbuilder.ini (for module view)

you will find there the keys and default translations for all the validations, that you can override at the files, or using the option system->language overrides to keep your changes accross updates.

2. Organization: the calculators don't have a 'category' field, but as they have both a 'name', and extra 'info' fields that can be filtered using the 'search' option from the toolbar, you can use them for a better handling at the main list. For ex, you could insert your 'category' at the info field (or as a prefix for the calculator name), and then search for it to see only a subset of calculators, order using this field...etc. Anyway we'll be ready to add the category as a new feature if we receive more feedback about this function.

3. Bulk backup: this feature was been requested several times in the past so we already added it to the extension some time ago. If you select a set of calculators (or all, using the checkbox), and then export, a zip file will be created containing the backups for all calculators selected.


Hope this helps, best regards
Silvia Martín
Moonsoft Team

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