Problem with language_mask

Tuesday 19 December 2006 4:12:41 am

Hi,

I,m using ez 3.8.6 upgraded from previous version. Everything works fine, multilingual is nice but i think i've found a problem.
I need to make the content in my forums always available. I found in the documentation that an object is alwais available when language_mask is odd, so i decided to make an sql wich add 1 to all the objects of the forum and forum reply class.
I found language mask present in two tables ezcontentobject and ezcontentobject_version but then i noticed the weird thing.
I ran two queryes:

select count(id) from ezcontentobject_version where MOD(language_mask,2)=1;

and

select count(id) from ezcontentobject where MOD(language_mask,2)=1;

and got two different results:
172194 and 21914
Then i decided to look in the database to see where was the problem or what i was doing wrong. I found that the two tables have different content for the same object in the language_mask field. In ezcontentobject i have language mask=250 (even) and in ezcontentobject_version i have 4 versions of the same object with values 123, 251, 251 and 251, all of them odd.
I have checked with and old version of the database (from 1 moth ago) when o updated to 3.8 and get the same results.

Any idea if this is a bug or i'm doing something wrong?
Is there any other way for changing all the object in a class to be alwais available?

Thanks,
Luis

Tuesday 19 December 2006 5:47:28 am

Hi Claudia,
I noticed about versions, that isn't the problem. The problem is that i have diferent values for language_mask in both tables for the same object. I was making the sql to make the manual change to the objects when I noticed that.
I think that the value should be the same in both tables, no mather wich version, but it isn't. I dont wanna change anything in any table until i know if i can change it without later problems.

Thanks,
Luis

Tuesday 19 December 2006 6:38:38 am

Hi Luis

The way I understand the docu having different language masks this is normal.
Description for language_mask for contentobject:

The sum of the ID numbers of the languages in which the last published version of the object exists. Please note that the ID numbers are powers of 2. 1 (2^0) is reserved for marking objects that should always be available. Objects that are always available will be fetched even if they do not exist in any of the site/prioritized languages (the initial/main language of the object will be used).

Description for language_mask for contentobjectversion:

The sum of the ID numbers of the languages in which the version exists plus 1.

So they are not the same.

Claudia