can't generate menu correctly

[felijung]

Hi,

when I change away from the default "catergoy-1" & "category-2" to let's say categories "en" and "de" and then have files therein, I cannot generate a correct menu. The html is generated, but for the menu to show the new category I can manually edit the settings.py to the new names of categories - but that is not the intended way I suspect?

[fscherf]

hi @felijung,

i think you need flamingo.plugins.I18N.

'en' or 'de' shouldn't be menu entries but languages, managed by flamingos i18n plugin. Then you can create a menu for 'de' and 'en'

Can you post a link to your projekt?

[felijung]

Hi,
thanks for reminding me of l18N. The en and de were placeholder though, the first that came to my mind.
Now I have the lang-plugin but the problem with the menu kinda stays the same.
My setting.py right now looks (in the relevant parts i guess) as follows

PLUGINS = [
    'flamingo.plugins.Menu',
    'flamingo.plugins.Bootstrap4',
    'flamingo.plugins.jQuery3',
    'flamingo.plugins.I18N',

    'plugins/example.py::ExamplePlugin',
]

I18N_CONTENT_KEY = 'id'
I18N_LANGUAGES = ['en', 'de']
I18N_DEFAULT_LANGUAGE = 'en'

MENU = [
    ['Home', 'home.rst'],
    ['About',  [
        ['About', 'about/about_en.rst'],
        ['Über', 'about/about_de.rst']

    ]]

]

both versions of about_[lang].rst have id: about and the lang: is set according to the language used.

now two thoughts/questions on that:

• how do i get it to show a language-menu?
• is it, for translated-posts and/or for any file to show in the menu, required to write the full path to each file in the settings.py?

[fscherf]

Hi @felijung,

Sorry that it took me so long!

FTR: i tried to reach you on a private channel, so i can see your whole project and work out a solution for your specific problem and improve the flamingo documentation afterwards.

What you need here are two seperate menus:

MENU = {                                    
    'de': [                                 
        ['Home', 'home.rst'],               
        ['About',  [                        
            ['Über', 'about/about_de.rst']  
                                            
        ]]                                  
    ],                                      
    'en': [                                 
        ['Home', 'home.rst'],               
        ['About',  [                        
            ['About', 'about/about_en.rst'],
        ]]                                  
    ],                                      
}                                           

In your templates you can access your language specific menu like this:

{{ context.plugins.Menu.menu[content.lang] }}