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Ha that is funny.. Yesterday I was so feed up with the people losing what they need I started a project called LangOps .. it's a lose fork of AdvancedContent since it had alot of the feature I wanted that I already put in long ago to this..

http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... #msg231878

NaN if you're interested I'd love to work with you on it.. I've got an auto translate feature all ready for it too, and am burning away at it.

Let me know.. Cheers- Jeremy

Music to my and many a Multi Linguals ears Jeremy..

Thanks for taking the time to inform us..

Happy to test it in real world scenarios for you too if needed.

cheers

I'll start a new thread.. I don't want to muddy this up.. but here is a peek at where it is..

http://screencast.com/t/I66QgtUr3

the output work is next..    I hope to get it out very soon.. but you know.. feeding fam and all lol.. Cheers -Jeremy

Looks interesting.
I was just thinking of moonoos question and it seems like Jeremy already did it almost the same way i would do it


@Jeremy:

I haven't looked into the code of langops that carefully but as i could see it is based on AdvancedContent 0.6 so merging AdvancedContent and langops shouldn't be that difficult.

Anyway i already prepared some code for AdvancedContent 0.7 to use the advanced features without an additional contenttype. It can be realized using the {content_module} tag. Only downside is that you won't have page_tabs but only block_tabs inside the main tab. But you should be able to use the default content type wich will gain maximum compatibility to the core i think (that doesn't mean i will remove the content type - just a new feature).
Currently this is in SVN in the trunk dir but doesn't contain all the bugfixes of 0.6.1 yet.
In the next days i will merge this code and 0.6.1 to result in version 0.7 (what will need CMSms 1.9 minimum)

I'm not sure how we should do collaboration. Merging the projects to a single one or using module dependencies to let langops depend on AdvancedContent (or vise versa) ?
What do you think of how collaboration should be done here?

Kind regards, NaN.

>>What do you think of how collaboration should be done here?

to be honest I don't know lol.. it's not super far, the auto translation stuff is the the new stuff.. and here is what it is.. I'll be adding a block_type of button.  and a param of udt=name.. this in the module internals is the path would used (thou not a udt at that point) but also gives the user a new feature that lets them run the udt with a click to..

other then that it's based of the 0.6 release.. may-be I should look at the 0.7..

I think we need to spend some time chatting on it to get the best option.. but I'm thinking it may be hard to do a full merging of the projects ... just not sure how... well wait.. I have an idea I think.. hmm.

Let's try to meet up in the irc in the next few days?  we can hash it all out..

tk and cheers -Jeremy

I like the way they have tackled multi language in Symphony-cms with tabs.. from your screen cast Jeremy it seems like a similar route, and for the end user/admin of the sites, would be very user friendly GUI...

Hi NaN

Another question. Is there a way to put some of the items that normally appear under the options tab, into another page_tab?  Ie - if you had a tab for 'page options' for your editors, and this could include 'active' 'url' 'alias' etc (if they were allowed to see them anyway).

Again - expecting this to be a No (just curious)

Kind regards

Nik

@NikNak: At the moment this is not possible.
There is an option in the global settings to specify wich page option may be edited even by users without permission. But they will always appear in the main tab.

I would need to create an additional preference in the module settings where you can define some default tabs and what content will be in there (regardless what is in the template).
I will think about it.

Can you file a feature request please?

In my opinion, this module adds the most to the CMSMS project. I just discovered the sortable_items='true' option, which converts the multi-select into checkboxes that can be drag-and-drop re-ordered. Very nice!

NaN, I have been using this amazing module for about six months, and I have to say that it has made it possible to do many things I had wished for before.

In the current Help Documentation for version 7.2 of AdvancedContent, "image" is not listed in the permitted values for the "block_type" parameter.

There is also apparently a "mode" parameter, but it is left out of the list, so we do not know the usage or permissible values.

The only way I found out that this module does images is by reading the past two years of this thread and seeing it was discussed quite a bit early on, but did not make it into the documentation.

Would you mind clarifying this in the next release?

Thanks!