Hey there,
I came to the conclusion, that option number 1 works for the most of
the cases.
Since Magnolia is page centric per default you would have to
internationalize the page properties too (to show internationalized
menus etc).
You also have to handle the case what should happen if there is no
translation for some content.
Additionally the content could be entered by different users
(translator), how to manage security/user privileges in such a case
(okay that's a minor issue).
So I think it would be best to create site trees for each language.
Someone could write a plugin (if there is a reasonable mechanism in
magnolia) to diff the content trees against each other, or to manage
your option 2.
But most of the time I would stick to option 1.
Best regards,
Richard Kogelnig
Chris Miner wrote:
Hi All,
Naturally I want a localized web site. Therefore all my content
needs to be in several languages. I have read on this board and
elsewhere that people are using a couple of approaches. They are
either:
1. creating complete site trees for each language
or
2. creating dialogs which contain all attributes for every language
The first option seems the most compatible with Magnolia. Just need
the one set of (possibly localized) dialogs, and everything else
works the same. Can probably work in a little workflow, to make sure
the sites stay roughly in sync. Each language tree would work
independently of the others. The problem here for me is that it is
too independent. I need to maintain the distinction between 1 story
translated 7 times and 7 different stories that happen to be in 7
languages. So I am not sure this approach would work well for me. I
think it is best to rely on the jcr:uuid for uniqueness.
With the second approach I ran into problems right away. First I
wanted a tab containing other tabs in my dialog. That way I could
have a General Properties tab containing several language tabs. I
couldn't get this to work. Perhaps tabs only work at the dialog
level and you can't add them to other tabs? Anybody done that
successfully before?
I suppose I could create a different dialog for each language, but
then I'd probably need a paragraph for each language too, so that the
right dialog would come up during edit. Also impractical.
Anyway, I'd appreciate reading any feedback or suggestions people may
have on this penetrating and exceedingly interesting topic.
Chris
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