[opencms-dev] Several Languages - Howto

[Corsin Camichel]

is an editor a real person or do you mean an editor like htmlare or
something similiar?

if you are talking about a "redakteur"/real person, you could allow
only a new created group (example called "group_de") to alter textes,
and overwrite inherited permissions for "User" group.

On 10/20/05, Uli Emmerich <2005-09-02 at web.de> wrote:
> Corsin,
>
> how does this work  if you want to restict each language version /
> directory to a different editor? Each editor would be able to change the
> content of all language versions.
>
> Uli
>
>
> Corsin Camichel wrote:
>
> >Hi Roman
> >
> >I can tell you how we did it:
> >
> >Our main language is german. So we first create a directory /de/ with
> >the locale property de. If this page is done, with all the textes and
> >so on, I created a sibling of the /de/ folder with "Copy no resource,
> >just create siblings of all resources in the folder" to /en/ and
> >adjusted the the locale property. If the user need to change a text,
> >it does not matter if he/she is in /de/ or /en/ or /foo/ as long as he
> >changes the language in the editor with the dropdown.
> >
> >You create with this for each lang. an own directory, but the text is "shared".
> >
> >Regards
> >Corsin
> >
> >--
> >Corsin Camichel
> >cocaman at gmail.com
> >
> >On 10/20/05, Uhlig, Roman <roman.uhlig at knve.de> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>So far everything looks fine, and we are enjoying working with OpenCms.
> >>Except one major question we are not able to answer as OpenCms
> >>"newbies": Is there an easy way to handle a site with several languages
> >>(with several, I mean about 5-6)? As far as we have figured it out, one
> >>has to do the following things when adding a new language:
> >>
> >>- registering the language in opencms-system.xml
> >>- create a folder for that language and setting it's locale property
> >>- copy over the folder structure from an existing language
> >>- create siblings of all files of the existing "main language"
> >>
> >>This is quite some work to do for several languages and looks somehow
> >>wrong. I don't think this is necessary and would like to ask you, if
> >>there is an easy way to do this.
> >>The language specific stuff is already there in the control code of
> >>every file, so why would I need siblings anyway regarding multi-language
> >>behaviour? Wouldn't it be great to just set the locale property of the
> >>root folder and derive it to the whole tree of the site?
> >>
> >>Any hints are very appreciated.
> >>Thanks in advance,
> >>
> >>Roman Uhlig <mailto:roman.uhlig at knve.de>
> >>
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Corsin Camichel
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