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

[Oliver Hader]

REMINDER RFC #6087
Post-Review by a Core Developer required


Michael Stucki schrieb:
> 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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Oliver Hader
TYPO3 Core Team