Author Topic: Language selection only after defining field (Read 846 times)

Simon147 · January 09, 2011, 05:34:27 am

Hello all,

I've just found the following issue: If I create a new field in a profile, I can in a first step only giving it one single Field Label. If I want to add field labels in other languages, I have to first create the field, and then edit it again.

I assume that there are technical reasons for this behaviour, or should I file this as a bug?

Simon

(working with CiviCRM 3.3.2 + Drupal 6.20)

Piotr Szotkowski · January 10, 2011, 05:29:47 am

You’re right, there are technical reasons (not unsurmountable, but not trivial either) – basically, the managing of parallel languages is handled via database table triggers, and the trigger that gets fired upon INSERT copies the value for the provided language (regardless of which one it is) to all the other languages.

Different values for a given field can be edited, because then it’s an existing row in the database (and so no cross-language dependencies need to be handled).

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