Posted by penyaskito on January 20, 2012 at 9:29pm
Hi,
I'm wondering what people use for using different paths in a view for each language.
In the past, we approached this issue by creating nodes with the desired url, and embedding a view on it, but it doesn't seem like the best option.
I also heard of people that duplicate each view for each language, but doesn't seem to me like an scalable approach in big sites.
Recently we participated on developing i18_page_views module (yep, it lacks an 'n'), that makes possible putting different paths for each language.
I'd like to learn from others experience on this issue, and it there are any improvements on Drupal 7 or if this is something considered on the
Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
Comments
Different approaches
I looked into this recently and here are the ways I see to handle it:
1) create a completely different view per language - this is most useful if you indeed will be having different data shown
2) use the i18_page_views module - this is most useful when the views are exactly the same but you want a different path per language - what I don't like about this option is that you have to use the "i18n page" display rather than the "page" display so it is not easy to add it in after the fact unless your "default" display configuration exactly matches your "page" display configuration - would be nice if this just altered the "page" display path options
3) use one view but filter based on interface language - this is most useful when the views are exactly the same and you want the paths to be the same for all
Kristen
Drupal Blog: http://kristen.org
Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites: http://kristen.org/book
Path translation
For #1, you can use the Path translation module (in i18n) to maintain your translation set.
Kristen
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Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites: http://kristen.org/book
Thanks Kristen, didn't knew
Thanks Kristen, didn't knew about it. It seems that it was included in D7.
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Christian López Espínola (@penyaskito)
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D7 goodies
Ya, lots of good stuff in D7! I'm digging into it all in detail for the D7 i18n book I'm writing... hopefully out in March.
Kristen
Drupal Blog: http://kristen.org
Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites: http://kristen.org/book
Create one view for all
Create one view for all languages. Use i18nviews and create a path alias for every language for nice localized urls ;)
Path translation is pretty clever too.
i18nviews and menu
I think this will not work if you want to link the Views pages in a menu with translation mode "Translate and Localize". Because the menu needs the real system path (and not a path alias), the path is the same for those menu items. So all translated links show up on all languages. At least that's the case for me.
/edit: But I have the same problem with http://drupal.org/project/i18_page_views – so the only way that works for me is creating nodes, adding them to the menu and displaying Views blocks inside of the nodes.
/edit: Hm, now it seems to work with http://drupal.org/project/i18_page_views
Thanks
Thanks for the tip... I was wondering if the path aliases were a good idea or not and now I'm thinking maybe not...
Kristen
Drupal Blog: http://kristen.org
Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites: http://kristen.org/book