Problems with multilingual Fabrik

[juuser]

Hello,

I have started implementing multilingual Fabrik using language override app method from this link: http://fabrikar.com/forums/index.php?wiki/make-fabrik-multilingual-with-fabrik-itself/

Generally working fine, but I have faced bigger and smaller issues:

1) The biggest problem is that when I have translated some labels in Fabrik translation list, all the sudden all the translations disappear (xx-XX.override.ini file has disappeared). Once it was probably related to that I used some forbidden character in label name. Second time it happened I did't have a clue about the cause. This is really bad as a lot of work will be useless.

2) Can list heading labels be translated? I have a lot of element where element name is quite long, but for list view it's shortened to save the space in list.

3) When I change some label name before translation for example from Label name to LABEL_NAME, should it update automatically in Fabik __labels table? Now it seems i have to change it manually in translation list.

Thanks in advance

 

[cheesegrits]

1) Is that when you are using the J! language override backend?

2) That should happen already:

https://github.com/Fabrik/fabrik/blob/master/components/com_fabrik/models/element.php#L1650

... where we check to see if the alt label exists, and if so use that, then run the label through FText::_(), which is just a wrapper for the JText::_() function that does translation.

3) What Fabrik___labels table? You mean the one in that wiki article? I've never tried that approach, that was contributed by a user. But from looking at it, you'd have to write a second set of triggers for "AFTER UPDATE" on those tables, to pick up changes to existing rows. The existing triggers will only handle new objects, not editing existing ones.

-- hugh