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Alexandria Book Library => Richieste (Requests) => Topic started by: wouterdt on 21 August 2021, 10:03:41

Title: language field on a book
Post by: wouterdt on 21 August 2021, 10:03:41
Hello

Thanks a lot for this extension  ;D
As far as I can see the only way to get more languages in the menu when creating a book, is by installing a language in Joomla.
Now i have quite a bit of books in multiple languages, but i dont need all these language packs installed in my website.
Its not the end of the world I know, but it would me mor flexible if this were configurable!

thanks
Title: Re: language field on a book
Post by: federica on 23 August 2021, 11:06:43
Ok, I understood. You are right.
Now the language option refers to the localization of web site but it is necessary an option related to language the book is written to.
It is correct?
Title: Re: language field on a book
Post by: wouterdt on 23 August 2021, 18:37:14
indeed, the language of the book would seem the logical purpose of that field  :)
Not sure what's possible, but if it were to be free text, for my case it would be solved.
Title: Re: language field on a book
Post by: seanos on 01 April 2022, 05:37:54
The Language option is in the Publication tab, so logically it refers to the language of the entry in the catalogue, not the book.

This could still be useful on a multilingual site, but most users will probably just want a field for the language of the book itself.  There should be a way of getting a complete (very long) language list from the Unicode project, but a user-edited list would be simpler.  It would be good if this list could work with Joomla's language associations so that when you change interface language, the language of the language list (!) changes too.

The work-around I'd use for our small (800 item) library would be to use tags.
Title: Re: language field on a book
Post by: federica on 04 April 2022, 16:34:47
Yes, publication tab->language is related to multilanguage website. The language of the book is not implemented yet.
I will add these feature in my to do list.