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  • Alexander Bobin 6 posts 26 karma points
    Feb 15, 2011 @ 16:42
    Alexander Bobin
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    Advanced versioning and collaboration

    Hi there,

    I'm investigating Umbraco as a possible answer for delivering reasonably simple multilingual sites. Really liking the look of things and think the recommended method of creating multiple root nodes / domains for languages is the way forward.

    Question:
    One item our client is interested in is versioning. A simple scenario would be that if I make a change to a major change to an English page that it could somehow be flagged up that a change needs to be made to the equivelant French page.

    I know this is a specific requirement and can see the closest things built in are "Last edits" on the content node and "Audit trail" on each node.

    Have any projects/modules/extensions been built that take versioning and collaboration further and/or am I missing some other functionality that would help?

    Many thanks,
    Alex

  • Tim 1193 posts 2675 karma points MVP 4x c-trib
    Feb 16, 2011 @ 12:16
    Tim
    0

    I'm not sure that there's any packages that do that specifically.......

    Umbraco does keep a version history, so it's possible that you could use that?

    There is also the Concierge add-on (which costs E99), that allows check in and check out of documents.

    The most common practice that I've seen for multi-lingual sites in umbraco is to have a structure something like this:

    Root
    --EN
    ----Page 1
    ----Page 2
    --FR
    ----Page 1
    ----Page 2

    etc.

    What people often do is use the Umbraco relations API to relate the same pages together (e.g. en/page 1 is related to fr/page 1 and so on). I'm sure there was a tutorial about it somewhere, but I can't find the link at the moment!

    There's a translation workflow included in with Umbraco, although I've never used it, it might be that you could use that? There's a very basic tutorial here (might be a bit out of date though): http://www.netaddicts.be/articles/user-guide-to-set-up-umbraco-translation-functionality.aspx

    Hope that helps a bit!

    :)

  • Alexander Bobin 6 posts 26 karma points
    Feb 17, 2011 @ 11:01
    Alexander Bobin
    0

    Many thanks for the reply Tim. I'm going to check out the relations API today - this sounds very promising.

    Will get back to you later.

     

  • Michael Latouche 504 posts 819 karma points MVP 4x c-trib
    Feb 17, 2011 @ 12:10
    Michael Latouche
    0

    Hi Alexander,

    You can find more information about the relationsip API here: http://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/relation-types

    Cheers,

    Michael.

  • Alexander Bobin 6 posts 26 karma points
    Feb 21, 2011 @ 11:28
    Alexander Bobin
    0

    Thanks Mike.

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