Feature Request: i18n Option copy

[samtrion]

Right now, we have the following options for the field property i18n.

@property {boolean | 'translate' | 'duplicate'} [i18n] I18n configuration.

A function copywould wonderfully complement this, as seen with image selection. When I choose an image on the primary page, it's automatically placed in the secondary language, but I can still edit it. This is useful, for example, if I have language-specific images.

[kyoshino]

Good idea. It would copy the value

• only from the primary language to secondary languages (and not vice versa)
• only when the value is empty

[samtrion]

• only from the primary language to secondary languages (and not vice versa)

Why not vica versa? When I start with my native language, which is the configured secondary language. Why not copy to the primary language, if the value of the primary is empty.

[kyoshino]

Because duplicate only copies from primary to secondary, and also, if there are multiple secondary languages, the two-way copy would be a problem. (One of my clients has 4 locales.)

[samtrion]

Ok, good point.

[kyoshino]

only when the value is empty

It’s a bit difficult to do this, so for now, the difference between duplicate and copy would be simply read-only and read-write.

[kyoshino]

Sorry for the long wait. I’m working on a client website and there are some cases where the copy option is needed, e.g. a banner image with text that’s not yet localized.

It’s hard to implement this for the Object and List widgets due to the complexity, but primitive value fields could benefit from this. Will work on this next month.