[Fixed] Autogenerating multilingual aliases - is it possible?

Hi!

In the ’YAMS-latest’ topic this line:

Autogenerate aliases on doc save if alias is blank

is striked through, as if this has already been implemented. However, this doesn’t seem to be the case in the site I’m working on. Or am I misunderstanding something?

I’m using YAMS 1.1.7 alpha RC7 with 4 active languages, in root name mode with unique Multilingual Aliases. Right now this means that for every page the editor needs to fill in a separate alias for each language. If (s)he doesn’t, the alias field for that language stays blank and the page won’t be available.
When not using YAMS, MODx would in that case generate the alias itself from the pagetitle. Can YAMS do this, too? And if yes, well, it isn’t working for me. Any help with that would be greatly appreciated!

I’ve tried with YAMS 1.1.7 alpha RC7 and MODx 1.0.3 and it works for me, so it is probably a configuration issue. First of all please can you verify that Tools>Configuration>Friendly URLS>Use FriendlyURLs is set to yes and that "Automatically generate URL alias" is also set to yes? If that’s the case, but it still isn’t working, then please check that the YAMS Plugin is associated with the "OnBeforeDocFormSave" event. If so, but it’s still not working, then please check the plugin execution order. Perhaps another event it being fired before YAMS that is terminating the event rather than passing it on to YAMS or something like that. I’d be surprised if it was still not working. I’ve got my fingers crossed that it is simple configuration problem. Let me know how it goes. Cheers.

Yay! Thanks very much! Apparently I had checked "OnBeforeDocFormDelete" instead of "OnBeforeDocFormSave".
It works now. YAMS is amazing, it works much better than the homemade multilanguage solution I used before. Thanks!