Multi-language Select with different content

[Bike]

Hello everyone,

 

I have a select field say "publishers" and I need its content to be different for every language. In the US there are different publishers than in GB.

How to set up this kind of field? Couldn't find anything about it.

Would be nice if someone could help ...

[3fingers]

Hi Bike,
are you referring as a select inside a template in the back-end or an html select rendered on the front-end?

[Bike]

Hi @3fingers,

it's supposed to be in the back-end.

[3fingers]

There are different ways to accomplish this, as usual. The first coming to my mind right now is to use:

Basically you should have two page reference fields, one for each group of editors (eg. us_editors, gb_editors, etc.). Those page reference should point to the corresponding branch inside the page tree:

- Us Editors // page reference -> us_editors
-- editor #1
-- editor #2
-- ...
- Gb Editors // page reference -> gb_editors
-- editor #1
-- editor #2
-- ...

Then you might want to use a custom selector (custom selector option of the module linked above) based on your language to show only the correct page reference field.

Eg:

$user->language->id = 1234 // The id of the language the page field might be shown
//OR
$user->language->name = 'GB' // Or whatever the name you have choosen

Then in your template file you can work with the editors whom belong to the current user language

$editors = ($user->language->name == 'US') ? $page->us_editors : $page->gb_editors;

This method will fail shortly if you plan to have more than two languages.

Another, and probably more reliable, method is to use a hook on page creation and populate a single page reference with the values you need.
 

[Bike]

Thanks @3fingers

I think this is something different from what I actually need.

In fact I am looking for a select field with language tabs like any other multi-language field (textfield, textarea) in the backend.

[3fingers]

Currently I don't think it's possibile with just one select field because options for language A must match options for language B (and so on...).
As far as I know you then need to select field (or page field) for what you are looking for.

[Bike]

Hi everbody,

I still didn't find any solution for this problem though I think it might be something not too fancy.

Looking for a select field (ASM too!) with language tabs. For each language there is not only a translation but an entirely different content.

Ex: Select field "Publishers". Field holds different lists of publishers for each language EN / DE / ES.

Or: ASM Select "Available as". Holds options such as "book", "ebook", "audiobook". Different selection possible for each language.

In case I am not making it clear enough have a look at the pictures ?

[Bike]

Nobody? ?

[horst]

I think it can be done with language alternate fields.

[Bike]

Sorry for bothering again but I still could not find any solution to this ?

A clue anyone?

[horst]

51 minutes ago, Bike said:

Sorry for bothering again but I still could not find any solution to this ?

A clue anyone?

I posted you a link 2 month ago:  I think it can be done with language alternate fields.

Have you checked it?

 

[Bike]

Hi @horst,

I did check it but don't know how to achieve select fields with different content for each language.

I think it actually must be something easy and common to do.