Change title for Categories page on custom component

Question

I'm writing a component that will rely on Joomla's Categories to manage its own categories.

Everything's working OK, I just cannot figure out how to change my component's Categories list title.

I'd like to show "My Component Name or whatever: Categories" on the top title bar just like it happens with Articles and Banners Categories.

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

I found the solution.

We must not use the string COM_MYCOMPONENT = "My component", as per the "component name", but the "extension name" as is shown on the url.

Given:

/administrator/index.php?option=com_categories&extension=com_mycomponent.somecategorytype

The language string must be COM_MYCOMPONENT_SOMECATEGORYTYPE on administrator/language/en-GB/com_mycomponent.ini

Thanks @Zollie and @Sharky for the tips.

Answer 2

You need to add a certain language string to the admin language file of your component. The most basic is simply the name of the component, for example COM_CONTENT. So in the language file you would add:

COM_CONTENT="Articles"

If you're using category sections in your component, append the section, e.g. COM_CONTENT_ARTICLES. You can optionally append _CATEGORIES_TITLE suffix to allow different string specifically in this view, since the generic ones are used in many other places where content types are needed. So COM_CONTENT_CATEGORIES_TITLE or COM_CONTENT_ARTICLES_CATEGORIES_TITLE also work.