[TYPO3] Translated pages use media field from default language

[bernd wilke]

on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:58:49 +0200, Marieke Vandamme wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> My CMS system is translated in 2 other languages then the default. For
> the default language, I selected a file to be shown in my menu (with the
> before cObject).
> When looking in the database, this is filled into the field
> "pages.media".
> 
> For the other languages, I needed to assign the same image. This is
> filled into the field "pages_language_overlay.media". Is there any way
> to use the data from the "pages.media" field for the other languages?
> Because the image is the same for all the languages, I find it overhead
> to save the same image 3 times in /uploads/media.
> 
> My code for printing the image
>   before.cObject = IMAGE
>   before.cObject.file.import = uploads/media/
>   before.cObject.file.import.field = media
>   before.cObject.file.import.listNum = 0
> 

in the install-tool (typo3conf/localconf.php) you can define which fields 
are overlayed.

search for '[pageOverlayFields]' in section '5:All Configuration'

if you don't like to have the media-field overlayd, just remove it from 
the list.

bernd
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