Custom Block Manager multilingual?

[riccardo]

After some trials I realized that the Custom Block Manager is language indipendent, and I did not have any success to find a way to change the Custom Block Manager contents switching to a different language.
Is it my fault or is there a solution?

Thanks!
Riccardo

[jmacgreg]

Hi Riccardo,

This is a bug! I have submitted a bug report here -- http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6398. Please feel free to CC yourself to that report for future updates; and thanks for pointing it out!

Cheers,
James

[Balta]

I had to deal with the same limitation few days ago. I bypassed the difficulty with javascript and the use of an alternate Header (Step 3. Website Headers, Footers, Lists and Navigation Bar). The result can be see there : http://ocs.univ-metz.fr/index.php/EUTIC12/EUTIC_2012

1) set : "3.1 Conference Homepage Header > Title text" to blank
2) set : "3.2 Website Header > Title text"" to blank
3) use the 3.2 Website Header > Alternate Header with a specific tag (in my case, I used "titre_en" and "titre_fr") for each language.
4) use javascript to propose some specific contents according to the tag used in the alternate header :

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 <script type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[
if (document.getElementById("titre_en"))
{
// english text
document.write("<p><a title='Follow us on Twitter' href='http://twitter.com/eutic2012' target='_blank'>Follow us on Twitter</a></p>");
}
else
{
//french text
document.write("<p><a title='Suivez notre actualit&eacute; sur Twitter' href='http://twitter.com/eutic2012' target='_blank'>Nous suivre sur Twitter</a></p>");
}
// ]]></script>

I'm not sure that it is the best solution but it seems to work excatly as we wanted.

Best regards.

Didier

[jmacgreg]

hi Didier,

Thanks for the tip! I don't see any problem in the way you have done this, although of course we'll want to ensure that OJS makes the process easier in the future, without need for a workaround. Good luck with your conference.

Cheers,
James

[aoterocalvi]

hi Didier,

Thanks for the tip! I don't see any problem in the way you have done this, although of course we'll want to ensure that OJS makes the process easier in the future, without need for a workaround. Good luck with your conference.

Cheers,
James

In OJS, which variables I need to control to get similar effect.

Thanks

Alexis