[Erp5-dev] translating accounting transaction lines

[Bartłomiej Górny]

Jean-Paul Smets wrote:
> Le Dimanche 22 Janvier 2006 21:18, Bartłomiej Górny a écrit :
>> Yoshinori Okuji wrote:
>>> On Saturday 21 January 2006 22:03, Bartłomiej Górny wrote:
>>>>> This is not required for your purpose, but personally I think it
>>>>> would be better to specify income to reference rather than id. But
>>>>> this would require modifying some scripts.
>>>> I'm afraid I don't understand... Could you elaborate?
>>> Only the accounting transaction lines use "id" to specify the
>>> purpose/indications of the objects. This looks inconsistent to me.
>>> Usually, we use the property "reference" or a category to refer to a
>>> certain object, so I prefer to change the implementation.
>> Organisation and Person modules do the same - they have predefined,
>> automatically added lines ('default_address', 'default_telephone' etc.)
>> and they show their id's in the listbox.
>>
>> This is a big problem when it comes to i18n, because when the lines are
>> automatically added, I need to (a) be able to translate what is shown in
>> the listbox, and (b) distribute translation via bt5. So, for example, my
>> 'hack' doesn't solve thw problem, because getTranslatedTitle uses the
>> 'content' message catalog, which doesn't go to bt5.
> 
> The id is not supposed to be displayed and is not supposed to be used for 
> user interface but only for programming (lust like properties such as price 
> or quantity in objects which are not translated of course). So, I do not 
> think the problem you mention exists in reality (beyond the fact that IDs 
> are still displayed in some places in ERP5 and should stop being 
> displayed). 
> 
> The right approach is to use properties such as title for user interface and 
> not to display ids. The case of title is a bit complex (this is a known 
> issue) because titles sometimes belong to content (ex. person title) and 
> sometimes to user interface (ex. module title). Until a perfect solution is 
> found, I suggest the following approach.
> 	
> 	- define a title on transaction lines
> 	- display the translated title rather than the id in listbox
> 	- force the use of ui message catalog to translate title in listbox for 
> accounting transactions

Could you advise how force the use of ui catalog? I thought about such a 
solution - I put translated_title into the listbox, but couldn't figure 
out how to change the way it is translated.

BG

> 
> JPS.
> 
> 
>> Bartek
>>
>>> YO
> 


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