Re: Questions on content, surveys and locale

[David E Jones]

On Oct 6, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Al Byers wrote:

I have never had to pay much attention to localization and how it applies to content management. I guess my main question is what is the proper method of

integrating content of multiple locales in an application.

1. Is it just left to the developer to link all possible contents to a
single publish point and determine which content matches?
If so, does it make sense to use the ContentAssoc entity?
And if so, should not "localeString" be be part of ContentAssoc?

There is a locale on each Content record, or at least a place for one. That should be used along with ContextAssoc records of type alternate locale to tie these alternate locale records to he main content record, which will be the one with the default locale. That way when you want to reuse all of that content you just associate the main content (default locale) record wherever you need/want it all.

2. Are there any ofbiz or java utilities that will select the closest match

from a set of available locales?

-David

I believe there is already some locale fallback code in the content rendering methods. It's a very simple algorithm, but the same thing the Java ResourceBundle and such do.

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