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(2013-05-07, 03:32:32)mvlcek Wrote:(2013-05-07, 01:17:02)Draxeiro Wrote: Going to the link to local page menu it shows the hierarchical view as it now should but it doesn't show the pages of the non-default language.
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Functionality is correct in that it now includes the language abbreviation when selecting a dutch page (just as advertised for v3.2), however the english pages are nowhere to be found. Even though they absolutely exist.
It is intentional that only links for the language of the currently edited page are generated, as it is highly unlikely that you want to link from one language to another. However, I currently always show the titel in the default language, even if the link is to a non-default language. And I show all pages, even if they don't exist in this language.
I suppose the correct way is to show only those pages which exist in the language of the currently edited page - and show the title in the correct language.
Generating only links for the language of the currently edited page is fine and makes things easier to manage, so I am all for that.
But having the title in the default language will put people on the wrong footing. Same thing with showing all pages even if hey don't exist in this language... non-technical users will not necessarily understand this logic.
So I totally agree that the correct and best way is to only show those pages which exist in the language of the currently edited page. Plus to show the title in the correct language.
If you can change that one of these days it would be a very good addition indeed. So by all means, please do.
Next to this, something which might be a nice future addition is to make it easier to enable users to create a page for a non-default language. It happens quite a lot that different language versions of a site will have different pages. Right now people should either remember to put a _en (or whatever their language code is) behind the slug or first create a page in the default language, hit the + sign and fill the page (plus deleting it again in the default language).
If functionality could be enabled to easily create a page for the respective language column that would make things a bit easier for end-users.
Same thing for your special pages plugin. If you now for instance create a news item with the _en method it will not be automatically sorted below its parent as it normally would. So if functionality like this would be included it would be very interesting in my opinion.
