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However, it's not clear to me how to decide which will work best for which situations. I don't yet have requirements for my project so I can't yet spell out what I'll need. But as a general reference, it would be really handy to have a overview or comparison chart or table that would guide us to an appropriate choice.

Perhaps they are all equally good for all situations with just one or two exceptions or perhaps there are a lot of factors that would affect your choice of tools here.

So how to choose?

Here are some of the topics/questions I've seen across a bunch of forum discussions.

Different site structure for different languages
Use of Contexts (complicated to setup?)
URL format (use of url parameters)
All pages translated vs just some
Compatibility with other extras
Different templates for different languages
Use of search across languages
Default languages
Converting existing sites vs starting new
Different downloadable assets (e.g. PDFs) across languages

There are probably others that I haven't run across yet.

I would really like to avoid a situation where, I've poured a lot of work into a setup then find the one thing that would cause me to restart with another solution.

Would others find this useful?]]> terrybarth Feb 04, 2017, 06:14 PM https://forums.modx.com/thread/101709/which-mulit-language-approach-to-use#dis-post-548550 https://forums.modx.com/thread/101709/which-mulit-language-approach-to-use#dis-post-548878 donquicky Feb 22, 2017, 12:46 AM https://forums.modx.com/thread/101709/which-mulit-language-approach-to-use#dis-post-548878 https://forums.modx.com/thread/101709/which-mulit-language-approach-to-use#dis-post-548832
Yes, those are additional important client questions, of which I have many. However, my question is once I have answers to those questions, how do I choose which tool to use? Each of them take different approaches with features and/or limitations.

How do I know which tool will, or will not, satisfy the client requirements?]]> terrybarth Feb 18, 2017, 02:59 PM https://forums.modx.com/thread/101709/which-mulit-language-approach-to-use#dis-post-548832 https://forums.modx.com/thread/101709/which-mulit-language-approach-to-use#dis-post-548831
These are some circumstances that might be counted as your consideration:
Bottomline: focus on your client.

• Does your client have time (and effort) to translate all the pages?
• Does your client need different usergroups to access different translations?
• Does your client need different translated files for download materials?
• Does your client need different page structures for each language?
• Do the translations stand as subdomain or subfolder path?
• ... ask your client

]]> goldsky Feb 18, 2017, 02:04 AM https://forums.modx.com/thread/101709/which-mulit-language-approach-to-use#dis-post-548831 https://forums.modx.com/thread/101709/which-mulit-language-approach-to-use#dis-post-548829 terrybarth Feb 17, 2017, 05:19 PM https://forums.modx.com/thread/101709/which-mulit-language-approach-to-use#dis-post-548829