translating options in Selection attribute - bug?

Wednesday 30 July 2008 3:25:27 pm

Its not a bug, eZ Publish doesn't currently support translation on class attribute values (default values + selection values) only name of the attribute and name of the class.

A discussion on class enhancements:
http://ez.no/developer/forum/setup_design/content_class_attribute_description

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Wednesday 30 July 2008 9:39:51 pm

Michal,

It is definitely possible to implement with some extension-writing skills. I have a custom extension made for that (for checkboxes only, not all selection modes). I'm not sure if I will be able to share that, but the idea goes like this:

- there is an extra tab and interfaces for managing 1:n->1:n db model (category set -> category -> category translation); those make it possible to create sets that contain any number of identifier-named categories that can be assigned translations in any language available
- there is a special i18n operator for figuring out whether there is a translation for a category in this particular language, or if identifier should be used as a last resort.
- there is a datatype, for which you define which category set to use during class definition. It also introduces one more db table for actually reflecting object-category n:n relation.

As a result, categories are translated automatically (if the translations had been prepared), but again - the attribute itself is not translatable - it will have the exact same selection for each document translation (which was what we needed).

One good thing about this model is that we can categorize multiple class objects in this way, using one category set.

I'll see if we're able to share the extension.

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Thursday 31 July 2008 12:41:42 am

Just for the reference: http://issues.ez.no/13248 : ezselection datatype translation not possible

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Friday 20 March 2009 12:42:06 am

We probably will.

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Wednesday 29 April 2009 7:16:29 am

Yes, this is really important...

just opened a enhancement ticket (last one referring to this was some years old...)

By the way, i solved this for a client using an override of ezselection.tpl and changing:

{$Options.item.name|wash( xhtml )}

to

{$Options.item.name|i18n("example/options")|wash( xhtml )}

Of course very manual (for example when updating or adding options ts file has to be updated in all languages) but it works... :)

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Thursday 29 April 2010 6:58:05 am

Just to let you know that it is very important to be able to translate selection datatypes - since this is not possible, we have not yet bothered to use class translations...... And we have to resolve to some pretty unlogical work-arounds in order to translate selections....

(I cannot quite figure out from this very short description how this low level support works in 4.3.....)