[TYPO3-dam] Localize file ?

[Jerome Schneider]

Hi, thanks for the answer.

Tagging records with language info would be sufficient for most cases, 
indeed.

I thought about another idea; it would be to store physical translated 
versions of a file in a local folder named .dam (just as the .svn) to 
exclude them from the standard dam directory listing, and modify a bit here 
and there the API and the backend file-interface to handle this.

In the future this could also result in file-versioning (I mean not 
language-dependant versions)
A client of ours would need this kind of feature as they've the need to 
efficiently handle many documents in many languages.

Another simpler idea would be to leave DAM untouched, and add another layer 
on top of it to bind several dam-records together with the standard T3 
localization interface.

Thanks,
Jerome Schneider



"georg kuehnberger" <georg at georg.org> a écrit dans le message de news: 
mailman.1.1219444708.6036.typo3-project-dam at lists.netfielders.de...
> 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 !
>>