Translation categories by Falang in Frontend OK, in Editing-view only main-language

Hello

yes in editing view, the categories names in the selector are not translated because
- we use cached data to speedup ACL checks for the category selector

but we can use these cached data and also make a single SQL query with minimal / small performance cost if falang is installed

I have added this issue with v3.0.16 milestone
github.com/FLEXIcontent/flexicontent-cck/issues/572

note this will be done only for frontend item form, probably will not do for backend item form

Hello,

thank you for adding this on github as issue. But Falang also with this feature seems to be at the moment not the best solution for my project.

Reasons:
1.) no directly translation of values
2.) an another additional complex extension (additional risks and performance requirement)
3.) the language switcher shows any languages to switch and not only available translations
4.) full item translation in my view too cumbersome for the most user

I create separate sites for each language and looking for a solution for the translation and the connection of translated items by Ajax. That seems to be in my case easier to handle.

If I should find a solution, I can public this in fc-forum or send you a message with the solution, if you want. Perhaps you want to integrate this in your project for other user of flexicontent.

Regards and thank you for your work and flexicontent

why you didn't use joomla native system ?

In my view the steps to translate an item are too many (for a normal user). I think it`s also too complicated for these kind of users (creating / batch using / connecting to other items and so on)

I think all needed steps to translate an item should be possible in frontend and an item should be translated after max 3 steps.

• 1.) open an available item
• 2.) override this in new language
• 3.) save these item as new item in new language. -that`s all- (connecting to each language automatically.

and additional conditions:

• two language switcher - one for the whole site, that switches the language for any items, menus and so on - and one switcher in each item, that switches or translate only this item, especially for category view. ( I think this is useful, when not all items were translated or a user want to read in a specific language and doesn`t understand only this or apart from this item )
• the language switcher should only shows translated languages and not all installed languages