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[saor Friend saorJoin date: October 2012Posts: 8Downloads:0Uploads:6]

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Hi there, I am developing a site which is not online yet.

I have an English language menu and a Gaelic language menu. I have the JA Purity II style set as default and language set to “All”.

I then have two other styles, Gaelic and English, each set to their own default language.

In the style settings I have to choose the “menu item type” which for the Gaelic style I put to the Gaelic main menu and for English style to the English language menu.

Here is the problem. If I change the settings in one style it changes the menu in the other style too. Obviously my Gaelic menu language is set to “Gaelic but if I change the English language style to use the English language menu then it also does that for the Gaelic stlye which means the Gaelic menu wont appear.

[saor Friend saorJoin date: October 2012Posts: 8Downloads:0Uploads:6]

#470146

That is a picture of my template styles page and the other picture from the settings of my Gàidhlig (Gaelic) style page. When I change the menu type in this style it applies the change across the English style also.

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[swissa Friend swissaJoin date: November 2011Posts: 1955Downloads:7Uploads:277 Thanks: 175 Thanked: 717 times in 572 posts]

#470148

Just a question but why are you not using the inbuilt multi-language of Joomla and T3’s language and page assignments? I would have thought it would be much easier to run and maintain…..

[saor Friend saorJoin date: October 2012Posts: 8Downloads:0Uploads:6]

#470149

I am using the in built multi language facility in Joomla using the language switcher and so on. I don’t know any think about the T3 language page assignments.

The thing I find weird is why do the settings in one style change the settings in another style?

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#470152

<em>@saor 342403 wrote:</em><blockquote>I am using the in built multi language facility in Joomla using the language switcher and so on. I don’t know any think about the T3 language page assignments.

The thing I find weird is why do the settings in one style change the settings in another style?</blockquote>

You can use just the one template and then make various ‘Profiles’ for it i.e. one for each language. These can use different layouts if you want them to so a colour for each language etc. etc.

You then just assign the language to the profile for each. Really simple way to do it! 😉

As to your current problem with styles, I’m not sure but I think you need to change the template names. I don’t think the – is recognised; it needs to be an underscore _ e.g. JA_Purity_II_Gaidhlig.

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#470154

Sorry I don’t follow you there. How do I assign a language to a profile? When I create a new profile all the options are greyed out.

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This is cut from another thread I answered in the members area so if part doesn’t make sense I apologise…..ask if you don’t follow or need more assistance. 🙂

In first image you see I have made new profiles – english and swiss. I have picked englisch menü. If you follow down you see that in ‘Menu Settings’ I have Menu Type “Main Menu”

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*Don’t worry about it being greyed out. Just click on the box on the right i.e. check it, and the grey will disappear.

Look at the swiss profile and you see that I have chosen Hauptmenü
swiss.png

So we have different menüs for each language. Now we need to assign these menüs to the language. This is done with Language & Page Assignments.

assignments.png

As you can see you just pick language and then click the relevant profile. Make as many as you need! 🙂

Hope that helps you.

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#470157

Thanks for this, very helpful and I *think* I understand you but………. under the page assignments bit the only two menus that dont appear are the “main menu English” and “main Menu Gaelic”. No idea why!

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#470159

<em>@saor 342411 wrote:</em><blockquote>Thanks for this, very helpful and I *think* I understand you but………. under the page assignments bit the only two menus that dont appear are the “main menu English” and “main Menu Gaelic”. No idea why!</blockquote>

Can you do some screenshots? and of the backend

Maybe I can work it out from there!

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[saor Friend saorJoin date: October 2012Posts: 8Downloads:0Uploads:6]

#470161

Yes have a look at these. The menus appear on the “menu” type box but not in the “language and page assignments” area but all the others do.

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#470163

Well, you have two menüs with the same name – Main Menu Gaelic. Even though one has the schottisch flag and one has the britisch. I can’t see what you have as aliases for these but I see in the page assignments main.menu, main-menu-all, mainmenu etc. Good is to name them in their mother tongue like I have in the example above – mainmenü, hauptmenü for mine.

Easier is to just pick the language – it should show you the ones you have (as long as you have them in content – /administrator/index.php?option=com_languages&view=languages –

So….

Hope that solves it for you!

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[saor Friend saorJoin date: October 2012Posts: 8Downloads:0Uploads:6]

#470166

Yes I do but if you look at the two pictures there is actually only one menu with that name. I’ve looked into the data base also.

That second one appeared when I was playing with the style settings.

Anyway, I suppose the question is how do you assign a profile to a language?

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#470167

See #7 and #11 of this thread. They will show in yoursite.xxx/administrator/index.php?option=com_languages&view=languages – sprachmanager.png provided you have them in Language Manager / Content.

You pick the language in the left side and then pick off the profile you made in the right window

de-DE is obviously german so I choose my swiss profile and en_GB is obviously englisch. You have en-GB and ?? no idea what code gaelic is??

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[saor Friend saorJoin date: October 2012Posts: 8Downloads:0Uploads:6]

#470168

Many thanks for this and all your support. I think I have worked it out now and had the usual fun with Joomla language settings.

I very much enjoyed my visit to the Diemtigtal a few years ago.

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#470170

<em>@saor 342424 wrote:</em><blockquote>Many thanks for this and all your support.</blockquote>

Gerne, you are Welcome. Good luck with the site.

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