Question: Tradukante Joomla Esperanten antaŭ kelkaj jaroj, troviĝis pluraj eblecoj, sed ekde tiam Komputeko ŝajne decidis ke 'post' (en) estas "afiŝo". Tio ne estas tute korekte laŭ PIV kiu donas aliajn sugestojn. Unu el ili ni uzas en Joomla; "notico".

En la angla troviĝas sinonimoj al "post", interalie 'message'. 'Post a post' aŭ 'Send a message' is pli-malpli la sama afero.

Lastatempe mi vidis "Afiŝi afiŝon", kio lamas se vi demandas min. "Afiŝo" estas 'granda papera mesaĝo al publiko'. "Notico" estas 'longa kaj detala priskribo pri iu temo', sekve ni tradukis al 'Sendi noticon'.

Ĉu vi havas aliajn ideojn?

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Translating Joomla into Esperanto a few years back, there were several possibilities, but since then Komputeko has obviously made the decision that a post is an "afiŝo". That is not entirely correct according to PIV, which have other suggestions. One of which we use in Joomla; "notico".

In English there are synonyms to "post", like 'message'. 'Post a post' or 'Send a message' is more or less the same thing.

In recent days, I've come across "Afiŝi afiŝon", which is quite lame if you ask me. "Afiŝo" is 'a big poster put up on walls to officially inform people of some thing or activity'. A "notico" is 'a detailed text about a certain subject'. Thus we chose 'Sendi noticon'.

What is your take on this?

Answer: 
In my opinion Vidamuzo's answer is the best: ***se tiel*** is a very good expression and it is actually used.

I would like to point out that ***tiuokaze*** or ***en tiu okazo*** translate *if that happens,* while *if that's the case* might also mean *if that's how things are* with no particular event in sight, as das-g has already written: a better translation for this second meaning is simply ***en tiu kazo*** or its shorter variant ***tiukaze,*** which good speakers are careful to distinguish from ***en tiu okazo*** and ***tiuokaze.***
*The following answer is based more on my "Sprachgefühl" than on actual Esperanto vocabulary knowledge, so take it with a grain of salt.*

Don't look for too literal translations. What you usually mean by "if that's the case" is "if that's true". So if the question is the **(current or past) factuality**, you could use

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> Se mi pravas ...
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or

> 
> Se ĝi estas vera ...
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It's different if you're using "If that's the case" for referring possible (but yet uncertain) occasions in the **future**.

> 
> Someone might step on my lawn. If that’s the case, I will call the police.
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> 
> ... . Se tio okazos ...
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(Don't use the noun "okazo" for that, though, as its meaning is more that of "something that happens/happened" ("occurance") or of "occasion" (concrete event) rather than that of "way things may go/be". I.e., it implies an event, not just a state.)