[support] CCK, Views and translations work-flow

[Steve Kessler]

How many languages does your site use?  You could add a CCK for each
language and then I think from the node theme file determine what language
you are and what if any fields should be displayed.  The node ad form my get
cumbersome but there are work arounds for that if this is worth pursuing. 

-Steve

Steve Kessler 
Denver DataMan 
303-587-4428 


-----Original Message-----
From: Ivan Sergio Borgonovo [mailto:mail at webthatworks.it] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 7:25 AM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: [support] CCK, Views and translations work-flow

I'm very frequently in this situation:

A multi-language website where most of the content is generated through
tables and is somehow language agnostic.
Sometimes editors would like to add "custom" content to the "base"
content automatically generated from tables... sometimes they don't.

So a "node" end up in a nearly language agnostic part and a custom strongly
dependent language part.

Now I'd like to be able to have the nodes for each language generated
automatically at least for the "language agnostic" part and let people add
the custom language dependent part if they wish/have time etc...

This looks so near to what views and cck could do... but not exactly what I
need.

What I end up doing is simply create an interface to add rows to the
language agnostic table/content, a new content type that just refer to a row
of this table then create a view-like function to list all the row in the
table.

The view-like, "current language sensitive", function provide 2 kind of
links: to nodes when people had created translated special content and to
simpler page that just show the details of the table.

This somehow is replicating the CCK/View system.

Another approach would be to just create "empty" nodes for each row inserted
and then people could edit the nodes adding their custom language dependent
content at a later time...

Are there any other alternative approaches?

--
Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
http://www.webthatworks.it

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