modxcms
Feature request: Add lexicon support for element descriptions
Summary
Would be nice if we could use lexicons for element descriptions, think of:
- TV title
- TV description
- TV options (for select list)
- Template names
- Template description
etc.
I believe thats been discussed here: https://github.com/modxcms/revolution/pull/11394
I think it's still at idea stage.
But I'd love to see something like this in MODX!
A status update for this feature.
- Categories supports lexicons:
- In the MODX trees
- In the MODX combo's (getlist processor)
- In the resource TV panel
- TVs supports lexicons:
- In the MODX trees
- In the resource TV panel
- In the 'TV tab' of a template
- Templates supports lexicons:
- In the MODX trees
- In the MODX combo's (getlist processor)
What I still need to fix is that TV options can support lexicons, after that I will create a pull request.
I made a new namespace called 'Lexicon' and that namespace holds all the translations. I did not make any language files in the core/lexicon/ directory, but I made the language files in the core/components/lexicon directory so the translations won't be overwritten in an update.
Yes, this is important. I feel a bit embarrassed sometimes when promoting MODX as multilingual, while not being able to give editors instructions in their own language above a TV. And for an Arabic project, this proved especially cumbersome.
Something along the lines of ModDevTools might work well for this, its code might be worth looking at.
@Oetzie Hello! Did it turn out to complete the decision on this request?
