Hi,<br><br>I know this is a commonly asked question but since I couldn't find anything helpful in the wiki or using google yet, I'll ask my question here:<br><br>How can I maintain a folder's navtext property in a multilingual way?<br>
<br>We currently have a site that consists of one tree and structured content containing mutliple languages.<br>Our templates use a fallback mechanism to retrieve content in the default language (English) if there's no content for the requested language (e.g. German).<br>
This works on a per-field basis, i.e. you could, for example, set some images in the default language only and just translate the text in the other supported languages.<br><br>Because of this, and since it is a much cleaner approach IMHO, we don't want to fiddle around with different structures in multiple languages (i.e. no siblings!).<br>
<br>All worked fine so far, since we didn't use the OpenCMS navigation facilities yet.<br><br>However, now we need to employ them and thus there's the problem of how to translate the navtext property.<br><br>Right now I could think of two ways, both of which don't fully satisfy me:<br>
<br>1. Store a key in the navtext and in the template access a properties file. That would require the user to maintain an additional file and keep it in sync with the keys.<br><br>2. Directly store the translations in the navtext, i.e. like this: "en=Some Folder,de=Irgendein Ordner,nl=Een map,es=Cualquier directorio,zh=<big><span class="lang" lang="zh-Hans">某一个文件夹" etc.</span></big><br>
Then I'd have to split the navtext in the template and extract the correct language. The problem with this is that it's quite fragile since the user would need to enter the translations in the correct format, i.e. <language code>=<translation>,<language code>=<translation>, ... . This might be error prone.<br>
<br>Any more ideas?<br><br>Thanks in advance,<br><br>Thomas<br><br><br>