kotti_multilingual 0.1a1

Language Section content type for Kotti

Multilingual Sites with Kotti.

Kotti’s data model includes a language attribute on the Content class, from which all content types inherit. However, this attribute is neither exposed by Kotti’s UI, nor used in any other way. kotti_multilingual provides a generic approach to build multilingual sites.

Work in Progress

kotti_multilingual is still in an early stage of development. It is neither feature complete nor can be considered API stable. Things will change!

Features

The package contains a single content type LanguageSection which is supposed to be the container of all content in a specific language. All content that is created in (or moved into) such a subtree will be automatically tagged with the language of the section. This is done by subscribing to Kotti’s ObjectInsert``and ``ObjectUpdate events.

The package also extends Kotti’s TemplateAPI with an additional language_root attribute that can be used as the navigation root for the currently selected language. The included language_nav.pt template makes use of that attribute.

You can place LanguageSection instances wherever you want in your content tree, but it is considered best practice to have a tree structure like this:

- /            Document            language neutral
   - /en       LanguageSection     English
   - /de       LanguageSection     German
   - /nl       LanguageSection     Dutch
   - /images   Document            language neutral

Setup

To activate the kotti_multilingual add-on in your Kotti site, you need to add one or more entries to the kotti.configurators setting in your Paste Deploy config. If you don’t have a kotti.configurators option, add one.

You must always add (enables content type(s) and event subscribers):

kotti.configurators = kotti_multilingual.kotti_configure

You most likely will want to also enable the TemplateAPI extensions for kotti_multilingual:

kotti.configurators = kotti_multilingual.kotti_configure_template_api

The one exception when you don’t want this is if you already have a custom TemplateAPI in your project. In this case your class should inherit from kotti_multilingual.views.util.TemplateAPI.

To use the template overrides (most notably the language aware navigation bar with included language switcher) also add:

kotti.configurators = kotti_multilingual.kotti_configure_template_overrides

If unsure (or you just want to test drive kotti_multilingual) add all of the above.

Changelog

0.1a1 - 2013-05-06

• Initial release.