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PostPosted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 12:44 pm 
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90% of users with multilingual websites use Joomfish component with Joomla 1.5.

Now there is a core possibility of Multilingual content, plus there is JUpgrade component which currently does not support such conversion (1.5JF-1.6coreML).

A question what the translation is concerned:
I have to have the HOME menu link in all languages (can't have it for one language solely), so when I translate menus, I have two home menu names pointing me to the same translation homepage. Is there any other way to do a translation with one HOME menu link?

Is this the right forum to ask such questions? I hope, because it is a mess here ;)

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 5:07 pm 
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The homepage for 1.6 HAS to be multilanguage. Personally, I'm not too familiar with multilingual capabilities, so I'll let someone with more knowledge answer. But, I *think* you'll have to have separate menu items in the language you're looking for.

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 8:52 pm 
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Not quite. There is this module with selection for languages that has to be present. Homepage should be in a single language!

And you did not follow the problem exactly:
English is default language > Menu:
HOME
CONTACT etc.

I switch to Slovenian > Menu looks like this:
HOME (which I can't get rid of, since the original Default HOME menu link has to be in all languages)
DOMOV (which is Slovenian HOME and does the same redirect)
KONTAKT etc.

I have one HOME link to much there. There is only one workaround which I can do:
To erase the HOME link name and put an image instead (no translation needed) and than unpublish all the home translation links.
But there must be a normal way to solve this, or am I getting sth. wrong?

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 9:31 pm 
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Hi urednik,

The improvements in 1.6 to present content and information in different languages, is not supposed to be a replacement for extensions like JoomFish where you have a corresponding item for each original item.

This is more basic, and still for many users more powerful, as you have the ability to have unique items with a set language that can vary from item to item. But it is not the 1-1 JoomFish like feature that you may think it is.

To learn more about this 1.6 improvement, try have a look at the Language Switcher Tutorial:
http://docs.joomla.org/Language_Switche ... Joomla_1.6

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 7:28 am 
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Thanks ot2sen.
So as quoted below, one should have a menu module for each language. Did I get this right?
And yes I know it is not the same thing, anyway there could be a database migration option. It is not easy to migrate 1000 translated items though. I think the new core system is very usefull, so magguire would be asked to create a upgrade or migrate script for that as well!

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Defining a Default Home page Menu item per language
As the Language Switcher Module is set to redirect to another Content Language Home Page, one has to be defined for each language. Important Note: A default Home page taggged to "All" should still exist, although the module displaying it does not have to be published.


There is a big problem if you want to do that good:
You have to assign the original language module to be displayed on all pages except of pages where translations are. So every time you change sth. in translation section, you have to update the menu module appearance.
I think my solution above is way easier to do, isn't it? How is this connected with performance?
What is better - to have more different modules displayed on different pages or to have one single module with more items and not all of them visible on all pages?
If it is the same what performance is concerned I would prefer my solution. What do you think?

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