[TYPO3-core] RFC: Feature Request #6087: IRRE - Localization of child records

[Michael Stucki]

Thank you! However, that was the one which is not reviewed yet, right?

May I suggest that you mark this in the ChangeLog line? I think that's the
easiest way to make sure we'll not forget about it...

- michael

Oliver Hader wrote:

> FYI: Committed to SVN Trunk (rev. 3042)
> 
> olly
> 
> 
> Oliver Hader schrieb:
>> This is a SVN patch request.
>> 
>> Problem:
>> The localization of child records when viewing the parent record isn't
>> possible. This is a missing feature of TYPO3 4.1.
>> 
>> Solution:
>> Introduce some new TCA configuration settings which allow to define what
>> should happen to child records when a parent record gets localized (see
>> also attached text file for documentation changes).
>> Basically a new TCA property is introduced for fields of type 'inline'
>> with the name 'localizationMode' and can be set to 'keep' or 'select'.
>> 
>> Mode *keep*:
>> This is not a real localization, since the children are taken from the
>> parent of the original language. But the children can be moved, deleted,
>> modified etc. on the localized parent which - of course - also affects
>> the original language.
>>     
>> Mode *select*:
>> This mode provides the possibility to have an selective localization and
>> to compare localized data to the pendants of the original language.
>> Furthermore this mode is extended by a 'localize all' feature, which
>> works similar to the localization of content on pages, and a
>> 'synchronize' feature which offers the possibility to synchronize a
>> localization with its original language.
>> 
>> Documentation changes:
>> -> see attached text file
>> 
>> Comments:
>> This issue is related to IRRE but also to other parts of the Core. The
>> regular "I'll commit in one week if nobody objects" is not given here.
>> I introduced a new class t3lib_tca to start with a base for common TCA
>> related checks and to retrieve parts of the configuration. It makes
>> things a bit simpler but - to be honest - has not a real concept yet.
>> I'm looking forward also to conceptual comments on this. But I'm fine
>> with removing that class and put the checks into the old classes
>> (TCEmain, TCEforms, TCEforms_inline), since TYPO3 4.2.0-beta1 gets
>> pushed...
>> 
>> Some days ago I've create a short screencast which show this feature:
>> http://www.olly.de/typo3/irre_localization.html
>> 
>> I've upgraded the extension 'irre_tutorial' (available in TER) to
>> version 0.1.9 which supports the new configuration properties and offers
>> the possibility to test localization on several IRRE cases.
>> 
>> References:
>> http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=6087
>>
http://lists.netfielders.de/pipermail/typo3-project-irre/2008-January/000262.html
>> 
>>
news://news.netfielders.de/mailman.1.1200922393.17504.typo3-project-irre@lists.netfielders.de
>> 
>> 
>> Sponsoring:
>> This feature is partly sponsored by the fotobuch.de AG -
>> http://www.fotobuch.de/ - thank you very much!
>> 
>> Branch: Trunk
>> 
>> 
>> olly

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