[YAMS+Ditto] How do I...?

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fourroses Reply #1, 14 years, 5 months ago

How do I?

On the homepage I’d like to preview some newsmessages.

I have a chunk with this ditto call:

[!Ditto? &extenders=`@FILE assets/modules/yams/yams.extender.inc.php` &parents=`6`&orderBy=`createdon ASC` &noResults=`Some dutch text.` &tpl=`nieuws_homepage_inhoud`!]

I have a chunk with:

<span class="kop">[+title+]</span><br>
<hr>
 [+content:notags:limit=`120`+]...
<a href="[~[+id+]~]">Dutch text »</a><br><br>

Like to know:
- how do i get the titles of the language tabs? At every language i get the main title so i cant translate. [+title+] doesnt work correct.
- Is it possible to make different tpl’s? because on the bottom of the message i’d like to add a linktekst which needs to be translated.
- &noResults, how can i make this to be translated?
- is it correct if my page alias is always the same?, on the tabs i can also enter the alias.

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PaulSuckling Reply #2, 14 years, 5 months ago

Hi @fourroses.

Before I answer your questions, I note that you are using PHx to truncate the length of the content field: [+content:notags:limit=`120`+] Unfortunately, at present this might cause problems for YAMS. So, if you do encounter problems with text like (yams-...) all over the place, please try removing the limit=`120` and try again. I don’t currently have a workaround for this I’m afraid, so if you do encounter problems you might need to use something like the introtext field to include a short summary.

Quote from: fourroses at Nov 06, 2009, 12:44 PM

- how do i get the titles of the language tabs? At every language i get the main title so i cant translate. [+title+] doesnt work correct.

Only standard Ditto fields are supported at present. Please try pagetitle or longtitle.

Quote from: fourroses at Nov 06, 2009, 12:44 PM

- Is it possible to make different tpl’s? because on the bottom of the message i’d like to add a linktekst which needs to be translated.

You could use a different ditto call for each language, each of which uses a different ditto template. Alternatively, you can use a single ditto call and template, but use:

[[YAMS? &get=`text` &from=`en::English Text||ru::Russian Text||lang::language text||...`]]

or

[[YAMS? &get=`chunk` &from=`mychunk`]]

where mychunk_en, mychunk_ru etc. are chunks containing the text to specify the link text in the various languages.

Quote from: fourroses at Nov 06, 2009, 12:44 PM

- &noResults, how can i make this to be translated?

Please try something like...

&noResults=`[[YAMS? &get=`text` &from=`en::English Text||ru::Russian Text||lang::language text||...`]]`

Quote from: fourroses at Nov 06, 2009, 12:44 PM

- is it correct if my page alias is always the same?, on the tabs i can also enter the alias.

Sorry, I am not entirely sure what you mean by that, but your use of "[~[+id+]~]" looks fine to me.

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fourroses Reply #3, 14 years, 5 months ago

Ok thanx allot grin

, got 2 questions;

When i use this within my dittocall: &tpl=`nieuws_homepage_inhoud_nl` it works
When i use this within my dittocall: &tpl=`[[YAMS? &get=`chunk` &from=`nieuws_homepage_inhoud`]]` i get an error sad

I have made chunk ’nieuws_homepage_inhoud_nl’ and ’nieuws_homepage_inhoud_en’.

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With alias i mean the following:
I make a new page, page alias i call: nieuws.
I also have some languagetabs, like Dutch / English, there are some TV fields calles alias (en) , alias (nl).
So when i put Nieuws and News into it, normally the page url has to be www.blabla.com/news.html or www.blabla.com/nieuws.html, but all i get on both languages is what i have entered on the main ’page alias’ field.

So i dont know if its possible when u (frontend) change languages u see the url being changed from nieuws.html to news.html.

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PaulSuckling Reply #4, 14 years, 5 months ago

Quote from: fourroses at Nov 06, 2009, 03:00 PM

When i use this within my dittocall: &tpl=`nieuws_homepage_inhoud_nl` it works
When i use this within my dittocall: &tpl=`[[YAMS? &get=`chunk` &from=`nieuws_homepage_inhoud`]]` i get an error

That’s right. You can’t use a YAMS call to specify the Ditto template like that I’m afraid. The YAMS snippet call doesn’t output the chunk contents, it outputs a special construct that Ditto doesn’t understand. Instead, you can put

[!Ditto? &extenders=`@FILE assets/modules/yams/yams.extender.inc.php` &parents=`6` &orderBy=`createdon ASC` &noResults=`At the monent there are no messages.` &tpl=`nieuws_homepage_inhoud_en` !]

in your English content field and

[!Ditto? &extenders=`@FILE assets/modules/yams/yams.extender.inc.php` &parents=`6` &orderBy=`createdon ASC` &noResults=`Er zijn momenteel geen berichten.` &tpl=`nieuws_homepage_inhoud_nl` !]

in your dutch/flemmish content field.

Quote from: fourroses at Nov 06, 2009, 03:00 PM

With alias i mean the following:
I make a new page, page alias i call: newspage.
I also have some languagetabs, like Dutch / English, there are some TV fields calles alias (en) , alias (nl).
So when i put Nieuws and News into it, normally the page url has to be www.blabla.com/news.html or www.blabla.com/nieuws.html, but all i get on both languages is what i have entered on the main ’page alias’ field.

So i dont know if its possible when u (frontend) change languages u see the url being changed from nieuws.html to news.html.

It sounds like you want to use unique multilingual aliases. You need to go to Modules > YAMS > Other Params and set:

Uniqueness of Multilingual Aliases: Unique
Multilingual Aliases: Yes

and press Update. You may then need to update your .htaccess. Check it against the YAMS > Server Config tab.

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fourroses Reply #5, 14 years, 5 months ago

Ok thanx! i got it sorted, works great.

To bad my ’YAMS? list thing’ where i can change language doesnt work if i have a unique alias, so i made it go to the homepage.

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PaulSuckling Reply #6, 14 years, 5 months ago

Quote from: fourroses at Nov 06, 2009, 04:39 PM

To bad my ’YAMS? list thing’ where i can change language doesnt work if i have a unique alias, so i keep my pagenames 1 language, it’s not that terrible

How are you generating a list of languages? Are you using something like:

[[YAMS? &get=`list`]]

That should work. If it is not, please can you explain in what way it is not working? Thanks.

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fourroses Reply #7, 14 years, 5 months ago

Hi PMS, late call here, well if I click on it, the url will only change from /nl/dutchuniqueurl.html into /en/dutchuniqueurl.html and not my englishuniqueurl.html

At the moment i have solved it by making an flagimage chunk and go to the homepage. It’s ok but wonder why it doesn’t look for the unique url.

Digging deeper into this;
I did changed the .htaccess as YAMS gives , ánd i also had set Multilingual Aliases on unique and on yes.
BUT it must be the menulinks. I think there must be something wrong with wayfinder?
[[Wayfinder? &startId=`0` &level=`1` &hideSubMenus=`1` &rowTpl=`@FILE:assets/modules/yams/tpl/wayfinder/doc/row.tpl`]]

or i have set some config on YAMS incorrect :S

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PaulSuckling Reply #8, 14 years, 5 months ago

Hi @fourroses.

On further investigation this is a YAMS bug that only affects unique multilingual alias mode when NOT using server names or root names. I’ll send you a personal message with subversion details so that you can download my bleeding edge version that contains a fix for you to test.

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