Hi,
for a while I asked if I can import JoomFish translations into FlexiContent. After a while without answers I decided to just give it a try and discovered two things:
1. If I import all articles into FlexiContent the translations are not imported. This is very bad news, because I had to manually create translations. Or, and this might be a trick, I have to manually assign articles to categories inside the FLEXIcategories category and manually bind them. Which is actually possible. The bad news here is that I still need Joomfish and cannot use FlexiContent for translations.
Which leads to
2. FlexiContent is no real translation (
www.flexicontent.org/forum/index
... topic#p961
). This might have some advantages but also many disadvantages. Just to mention three of them. There is no item to item switching on the website, I have to build a whole new site structure for every language and even worse, I cannot use Joomfish with custom fields.
Have I summarised everything right? If yes, then FlexiContent is not usable for larger multilingual pages, at least not for me. I have a page with over 500 articles in 4 languages (95% the same content items in all languages) already translated with Joomfish and it is impossible (timewise) for me to create new "translations" in FlexiContent and rebuild the whole site structure with about 200 menu links in all languages. Also, all my internal article linking would not work anymore. Don't even want to thing about it.
But even for blank pages it is nearly impossible to use FlexiContent if using lot's of custom fields. Or, at the moment I am allowing translators to directly translate single articles using Joomfish. How would I do this with FlexiContent. I guess using FlexiAccess. But then I would have to create menu links again and, well the workflow would just not work.
Just my two cents
Rooney
