[opencms-dev] Several Languages - Howto

[Corsin Camichel]

Hi Uli

Ok, got it

Just tried it, and it did not work. Perhaps *@alkacon.de has any idea,
would be interessting to know.

Regards
Corsin

On 10/20/05, Uli Emmerich <2005-09-02 at web.de> wrote:
> Corsin,
>
> sure, I mean an editing person. But I did not get your answer / solution
> completely. Is it possible to arrange a multilanguage website with the
> setup your suggested (one folder tree per language, siblings for
> multilanguage content) and forbid for example the french editor to edit
> the english content by user permissons (or not allow him / her to change
> the language dropdown in the editor). I am looking for a solution for
> this problem. If you know, please describe a bit more extensive. Thank you.
>
> Uli
>
> Corsin Camichel wrote:
>
> >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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