Multilingual website: problem with the untranslated object

Monday 08 August 2005 1:50:33 am

Hi,

I've got to siteaccess with different default languages (fr and en) and the same database. It's configured so if the object isn't translated, it displays the existing language.

By default, most of the objects are only in french and not translated. Therefore, the english website contains moslty french content but a few key translated objects.

I have several problems with the french version seen in the english interface:
- if I try to edit it, it tries to edit the english version and I got a lot of error messages (non of the attributes can be found, as they don't exist in english)
- I don't want it to be indexable by the search engines (as it duplicates the info seen on the french part).

How can I know if the object is "really" in english or that's the french version ?

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Monday 08 August 2005 10:48:03 am

Yes, sure, I know how to create a translation "the hard" way : have a draft of the object, create a translation, save the translation, save the draft.

However, I don't know if I need to create the translation (until I get the error messages when I try to edit the content).

When I'm on a language (say FR), and I want to edit a content that doesn't exist yet in FR (it only exists in EN), I get error messages and I have to create the translation (the hard way).

Is it possible to avoid it, so I don't offer the edit option ?

Am I clear ?

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