[Apc-aa-coders] MLX for Action-Apps, preview patch

[Michael M. <mi...@gn...>]

Hi

to answer my own post. I have patched AA to do these things. Let me know 
if you think it's worthy of CVS... My SF account is 'mimo'.

I have put the patch and some instructions here:

  http://mimo.gn.apc.org/mlx/

Please tell me what you think. I also accept bug reports but remember to 
use the power of the source....

Greetings,

mimo aka Michael


mi...@gn... wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have been thinking about extending AA to accomodate multilingual content. We
>have done this before using related items and apparently there are otehr
>approaches as well. One problem I found with these is the useability point of
>view. It's very frustrating and complex to explain how users and admins are
>supposed to add items or translations in these setups. So this is an idea for
>an approach that takes into account the user's point of view. As I am not going
>to be in South Africa I hope we can have a fruitful discussion on this idea on
>the list. 
>
>Organistation of Information:
>
>A) Control Slice (or Metadata slice but I cannot pronounce this correctly)
>B) Content Slice
>
>How it should work:
>
>Every slice has a line Language Control Slice in the Slice settings. If this is
>filled with a valid Slice Id then the Slice with this Id will be the Control
>Slice for this slice.
>
>Add Item / Edit Item:
>
>On top of the normal inputform display the list of enabled languages (where the
>enabling of languages happen or where they are defined I dont know yet). This
>list could look like this:
>
>| English | Edit Czech translation | Insert German translation | etc...
>
>This information is read from the Control Slice. The Control Slice should look
>like this
>
>Translations: list( <language abbreviation> => <item id in Content Slice>, )
>              (Optional: Default language for item)
>
>I think this would need a new field type.
>
>
>The Content Slice would contain the same new field type, linking back to the
>item in the Control Slice so that on deletion this can be modified.
>
>
>
>So far so good. Let me know if this as too brief and also what you think about
>it, whether it would work, etc.
>I am currently working on a project where this would be required so I could
>implement it and then put it in the official AA CVS.
>
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>
>mimo aka Michael
>
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