Multilingual Sites with Kotti.
Kotti's data model includes a language
attribute on the Content
class, from which all content types inherit. However, this attribute is neither exposed by Kotti's UI, nor used in any other way. kotti_multilingual
provides a generic approach to build multilingual sites.
kotti_multilingual
is still in an early stage of development. It is neither feature complete nor can be considered API stable. Things will change!
The package contains a single content type LanguageRoot
which is supposed to be the container of all content in a specific language. All content that is created in (or moved into) such a subtree will be automatically tagged with the language of the root. This is done by subscribing to Kotti's ObjectInsert
and ObjectUpdate
events.
You can place LanguageRoot
instances wherever you want in your content tree, but it is considered best practice to have a tree structure like this:
- / Document language neutral
- /en LanguageRoot English
- /de LanguageRoot German
- /nl LanguageRoot Dutch
- /images Document language neutral
To activate the kotti_multilingual
add-on in your Kotti site, you need to add an entry to the kotti.configurators
setting in your Paste Deploy config. If you don't have a kotti.configurators
option, add one. The added entry should look like this:
kotti.configurators = kotti_multilingual.kotti_configure