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[questbg Friend questbgJoin date: May 2008Posts: 1912Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 146 Thanked: 339 times in 197 posts]

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Hi Everyone

I’m using Telline II. Joomla 1.5.7, JoomFish RC1, JoomSuite User and JoomSuite member.

With the ‘content’ supression plugin from JoomFish, only ‘translated’ content is used on the Russian and French versions of my site (all English content is ignored, even if those articles are newer). This gives me then more time to translate the articles to Russian and French prior to publication.

All is working well with this, however, my problem now is actually ‘managing’ my front page articles. Not all my ‘front page’ articles in English have yet been translated to Russian and French, therefore, I have to nominate different Russian and French articles for Front Page. As you can see, this gives me a problem in the Front Page Manager:

The top 4 in this list are my English FrontPage articles. However, mixed up in that list are also 4 articles translated into Russian, 4 articles translated into French and also marked as ‘Front Page’ as these are the ones that need to be pulled via the content suppression plugin. There are also a few ‘spare’ articles in there, ready to be moved around in the order!

As you can see, this is a real mess as I can’t easily manage which articles are going to the French frontpage and which articles are going to the Russian front page!

Any suggestions as to how I can better manage this please?

In an ideal world, the following would be perfect:

But I imagine that’s absolutely impossible to do! 😀

Cheers
Chris

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#270563

Hi questbg !
Have you solved the problem ?

[questbg Friend questbgJoin date: May 2008Posts: 1912Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 146 Thanked: 339 times in 197 posts]

#270565

HI hainn84

No! :((

I’ve been discussing a few ideas with the JoomFish developers. We think the ‘easiest’ way to fix this would be somehow to have a ‘Language’ filter in the Front Page Manager.

At least if I had that, I could just view the English or French or Russian articles that are assigned to Front Page and could much easier change the order of them.

However, I wouldn’t have a clue how to go about doing this but I believe this could be of great benefit to any user with multi-lingual sites!

Thanks
Chris

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