[Erp5-dev] translating accounting transaction lines

[Jean-Paul Smets]

Le Lundi 23 Janvier 2006 11:36, Bartłomiej Górny a écrit :
> 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.
>

An quick way is to use a script (Base_getUiTranslatedTitle) but I would 
prefer to discuss first with Yoshinori about this general issue.

JPS.

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

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