[TYPO3-dev] BE: Only one field visible when making translation of an item

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Brian Bendtsen wrote:
> In my extension I have an item created by users with a lot of fields. 
> Its possible to make a translation of the item but only one field will 
> need actual translation.
> 
> Is there a way to only display this field when they are making the 
> translation?
> 
> Im guessing it is possible in the tca.php, by adding another key to the 
> types array but how do I define that it shall use the new one when the 
> other language is selected?
> 
> So it will be something like this:
> 
> Default language is selected -> show all fields
> Danish language is selected -> show description field

Firsts, you need to define language overlay for your table. It should 
have all standard fields (like uid, pid, etc), fields described in [1] 
and also fields to be translated. Then you should configured TCA for 
your translatable fields in main table as described in [2].

[1] 
http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/core-documentation/doc_l10nguide/1.0.0/view/1/4/#id2723289
[2] 
http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/core-documentation/doc_core_api/4.1.0/view/4/2/#id3613137, 
see "languageField" and below

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