[TYPO3-dam] Localize file ?

[georg kuehnberger]

Jerome Schneider wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Is there a particular reason why the DAM disallows the localization of 
> the physical file itself in the DAM record ?

see below.

> It seems that the DAM is really physical-file-centric and so this can 
> not be easyly achieved, right ?

right; dam uses the TYPO3-core functions for localization, which however 
  are (for good reason) completely DB-based.

Think of one file in dam being one record in the pages or tt_content 
table; there's always a default record, which you wourld add translated 
meta data to.

 From a conceptional and content organizational point of view you'd 
normally:
- use media which is langage independent (no text in images), and add 
the language specific stuff in the db-based meta-data.
or:
- in case you are dealing with eg. text documents which are 
language-specific, you would TAG the document with the respective 
languag via a category or any dam-metadata.

Both versions should allow for meaningful & autmated FE-display concepts 
and an easy handling in the backend.

hth, regrads georg

> 
> BTW: thanks for your work, guys !
>