Wierd forum behaviour as I cannot see this reply in this thread but I found it using search for "1:1" !?



Anyway, thx Dirk. I discovered UrlRewrite config yesterday after posting. But I cannot find any documentation of it. I have experaince with linux mod-rewrite but not with this one.

I played with it and managed to redirect myweb.com/EN/something.aspx to myweb.com/something.aspx?lang=EN
All this works, but all links on my site now are completely "unaware" of this. I can fix navigation to build ok, but what about internal links inserted from rich text editors into content? I don't think I can tell my clients to type links manually instead of choosing the page from the browser.

custom "not found handler" seems like one more redirect and "wrong" links on the site which is not so good for SEO I belive.

Hmmm, I'm beginning to worry that this first case study of mine is not going to work with Umbraco :( And it is really not an option for me to go to multiple language trees as I would need to retype huge amounts of repetitive numeric data for 5-10 languages!

But I'm sure this flexible and good product DOES have solution for multilanguage sites - I mean those with repetitive non-language data like accommodation catalogues, product catalogues, photo galleries, etc.

Can this huge non-text/numeric/photo data (like accommodation unit in my case study) be stored in separate (but single) branch and then somehow be accessed through separated lang branches... like this:
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|--EN
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|--DE
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|--DATA

I'm a noob in Umbraco, please help this case study to work.

Hi,

I've been doing a lot of work on a multi-lingual site and I spent some time investigating these options as well!

The structure you have suggested above is similar to what I have come up with. So put language-neutral information in your "data" section, and refer to it using XSLT (or in Umbraco v4 you can use <umbraco:Item NodeId="xxx" field="fff" runat="server" /> if you prefer).

As Dirk said, once you have set up one language you can use "Copy" to create another.

You will be able to re-use Templates and make use of the Umbraco Dictionary as well.

For images/photo galleries, you can use the "Media" Section of umbraco to store these in one place.
If you need to add fields to these, (e.g. one field per language for an "alt" description) you can edit these. Go to the Settings tab, select the media folder, select the Image node, and edit it in the same way as you would a document type.

You may want to consider a root website node, for example;



You can still use elements of the 1:1 language pattern: The accommodation data you place in the 'DATA' section could still have one tab per language.

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Adam Perry (blog, twitter), developing Umbraco based websites and applications for ConnectDigital.

Thx Adz. I'm glad somebody is thinking the same way as I do :)

But I'm curius... how do you link nodes from "mywebsite" part to "data" site?

I guess you create node for each item (accommodation unit) in "mywebsite" and put language-dependant fields there. Then you create it also in "data" and put all language-independant fields there. Then you put some kind of "node picker" in "mywebsite" part that links the two nodes and is usable in templates to merge all those fields?

This seems the only way to keep URLs correct. Downside is that each item needs to be edited on two different places but it is not too bad.

But now when I'm thinking of it... if the above method works for you... why "data" couldn't be stored inside "default" langugage!? So all fields are in EN tree, and DE tree contains only language-dependant fields... we find a way to connect those and that is it?

Something like this