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How do you handle basic content snippets?

People generally have strong opinions on where simple phrases or single words should be stored in order to properly localize them. This is normally 2 camps.

Store simple content in standard values

Using stock Dictionaries

Either way is not very good

both of these options come with pretty serious problems that place significant tech debt style nastiness on the content authors in terms of flexibility

Enter the AutoDictionary

Automatically creates your dictionary items if they don’t exist.

Allows authors to optionally edit the dictionary items from the EE.

SXA site component sharing automatically handled.

Traditionally a dictionary key will be pathed using .‘s like so:

Carousel.Labels.Next

This would look for the dictionary definition with that key. Traditionally it would be located at the path:

Dictionary/Carousel/Labels/Next

Using this information we know where the dictionary definition SHOULD be.
With the addition of a default text block we can create these dictionary items automatically. whereas a traditional dictionary would output nothing.

<span class="btn">@Html.AutoTranslate("Carousel.Labels.Next", "Next")</span>

The below would be EE authorable

<span class="btn">@Html.AutoTranslate("Carousel.Labels.Next", "Next", true)</span>