Create a translation on unpublished content?
Create a translation on unpublished content?
Tuesday 24 July 2012 10:04:07 am - 2 replies
HI.
Here is the scenario:
In Admin2:
- I create a draft in language A
- I store and exit draft
- I now see the draft in my dashboard
- But before publishing, I want to create a translation in language B..
This does not seem possible. Must you first publish content before being able to add translations or am I going nuts?
Thanks,
David
Wednesday 15 August 2012 9:06:00 am
Quote from David Hohl :I've just tried. This is right, this is not possible - strange.
Maybe a bug?
HI.
Thanks for confirming.
Well, after digging around on the PHP level, it is actually 'possible' to do this to some degree. You can create the new draft (from the initial draft or not). However, the issue actually comes from publishing the second or subsequent versions first.
The limitation(or integrity constraint) comes from eznode_assignment. This is the 'potential' location of objects in the tree (and where node_ids are born). Entries here only exist at versions in which there is a node assignment (creation of object and addition of locations). Therefore, if I have version '2' and version 1 is still unpublished, when I go to publish version '2', the system will (rightly) kick back and prompt me for a location - because the only existing location is for a version not yet published and therefore not valid.
So, an odd and frustrating little scenerio, but at least (gasp) there is logic to this situation and it would be possible to overcome it with a little bit of elbow grease. For now, I've left well enough alone 
-David
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