I have a Plone site with internationalized content, using Archetypes and LinguaPlone.
Some of my objects (including folders) are language neutral, others are not. For generation of menus and navigation breadcrumbs, I'd like a method which
Title()
, if the Language()
is non-empty (because under this condition the title
attribute is supposed to match the language), andTitle()
otherwise (because the object is used for multiple languages, and I have a small set of affected strings).I couldn't find any *title*
method in the Products.LinguaPlone
package; pretty_title_or_id
is apparently language-agnostic.
Is there really no such method yet?
(Products.LinguaPlone 4.1.8, Products.CMFPlone 4.3.3, Products.ATContentTypes 2.1.14)
Edit: The affected objects are a limited number of folders (near the site root) whose titles very rarely change; most others have a non-empty Language
(which will cause their Title
not to be translated) or are non-folders (and won't have a known translation, I admit, but in those cases the original title would be used). I could imagine to patch pretty_title_or_id
accordingly, and I wonder about reasons not to do so.
I'll answer myself: It seems there is no such method because the standard set of metadata fields is not sufficient to support it.
For a small fixed set of languages, it might be a good solution to use title_<lang>
metadata fields.