Re: [libreoffice-website] Time to start drafting content for the SilverStripe site

Brilliant. Thanks


On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Christian Lohmaier
<lohmaier+ooofuture@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Michael, *,
>
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Michael Wheatland
> <michael@wheatland.com.au> wrote:
> > How does Silverstripe work to ensure that all of the content and structure
> > when selecting different language options remains exactly the same,
>
> It doesn't enforce it - the Toplevel menu structure is taken from the
> corresponding site's main language, i.e. the toptabs are taken from
> the english version for www.* - when those pages are translated, the
> translated menu-tab will appear, otherwise the english one will be
> shown. But that is all that silverstripe enforces.
>
> > just in
> > a different language?
>
> So it only enforces it for the toplevel - a translated page could have
> subpages that don't have a match in the original language, that are
> only available in one language. But on the main site this of course
> should be avoided, as the content on the main page is meant to be
> valid for all users, of any language.
>
> > And how does the SilverStripes page translation
> > interface work?
>
> In the CMS there is a tab "Translations" that can be used to
> create/list the available translations for the corresponding page. And
> for all translations, you see the value of the original page as
> reference when editing the content. Keeping the actual contents in
> sync of what is written in the original page is up to the editor
> though. When the original page talks about apples, the translator can
> write about bananas in the translation. Keeping the contents in sync
> is a matter of policy in this case.
> (you can get notifications when the original page is updated as a help
> to keep it in sync though)
>
> Feel free to mess around in the sandbox (access instructions here:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/website@libreoffice.org/msg00337.html )
>
> ciao
> Christian
>
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