[Product-Developers] Re: languageIndependent fields not updated

[Wolfgang Thomas]

Philip Bauer wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> i have a problem with languageIndependent fields.
> My ContentType "staffmember" has a
> 
> the value of languageIdependent fields is not changed after the 
> canonical field is changed.
> 
> I have a ContentType called StaffMember and for example an StringField 
> 'email'
> 
>     atapi.StringField(
>         name='email',
>         required=False,
>         searchable=False,
>         languageIndependent=True,
>         validators = ('isEmail',),
>         storage=atapi.AnnotationStorage(),
>         widget=atapi.StringWidget(
>             label=_(u"Email"),
>             label_msgid='staffmember_label_email',
>             description=_(u""),
>             description_msgid='staffmember_help_email',
>         ),
>     ),
> 
> Since email doesn't change when translating (compared to jobTitle or 
> such) it's marked as langageIndependent.
> When I translate that person, the 'email'-value of the canonical version 
> is kept - so far so good.
> But when I change the value in the canoical version after translating 
> (imagine this persons email changed because he changed his department) 
> the original value is kept in the translated version - with no chance 
> for me to override or sync it again.
> As far as i see this only happens to text- and stringfields, files and 
> images are not affected.
> 
> Am i missing something or is it a bug?
> 
> I use:
> Plone 3.2.1
> Zope (Zope 2.10.6-final, python 2.4.4, darwin)
> Python 2.4.4
> LinguaPlone 2.4
> Archetypes 1.5.10-dev
> ATVocabularyManager 1.5-alpha
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Philip
> 
> 
> 
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Hi Philip,

we had a very similar problem. Could it be that the value _does_ get 
written to the translation when you edit the canonical, but that you 
just don't see it, because the translation didn't get reindexed?

In other words, if you edit the canonical and change the email, then 
edit the translation (to trigger the reindexing), do you then see the 
updated value?

For this usecase we introduced a checkbox-Field "reindexTranslations" 
to several of the content types we use. The person editing a canonical 
object can tick this box to indicate that reindexing should be done. An 
event-handler for zope.lifecycleevent.interfaces.IObjectModifiedEvent 
then checks if the property is set, and if so, it reindexes all 
translations and unsets the property again.

Of course you could just reindex all translations of an object 
automatically every time you save, but that will introduce some extra 
waiting time for the editor...

Or is your problem different, i.e. the value does not get propagated to 
translations at all?


Cheers,
Wolfgang