Where do I put questions about bilingualism? Well, I just put here then.

I have to put our WebGUI into 2 languages (german and english) but I don't know if there is an internal possibilty to have two languages within WebGUI? Or is there any other way to do so?

Thanks for help.

me <-- Newbie with all the stupid but interesting questions...

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The way Rory describes is the best to do it for bilingual content, but think before you start setting it up, so everything (especially url's and folder paths) is nice and neat so it might even be easy to add a third languages.

Furthermore, you can install all language (from i18n.webgui.org and if your language is not complete, feel free to help it make complete :) ) packs for the WebGUI itself, so every user can set his own language for all automatically generated links and text. But there is only one default, which is the visitors language.

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Well in fact there is no problem.
When you place your content in a folder and use the standard folder template, then it will display a list of all items inside that folder.

You can make a new folder template and edit it so it will fit your needs. In the help file in the admin console you can find all the template variables that you can use in the folder template.

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Ok, so you made a structure in the WebGUI admin console solely using folders?

We use folders only as containers for holding files. So for example all PDF files go in one folder and all templates go in another one.

To give your website a structure you use page layouts. To add content to the page layout you use articles etc.
All these different functions (page layout, folder, artice) are called assets in the WebGUI tree. These assets can contain one or more templates which, amongst other things, describe the looks of that asset. Depending on the asset you are using there are different variables that you can use (like I said in my other post, you can find them in the help file). These variables can add URL or markup and more of this stuff to your asset.

For example, when you want to show all files in a folder and make a link of the titles your template can look something like this:

<tmpl_loop file_loop>
<a href="<tmpl_var url>"><tmpl_var title></a><br />
</tmpl_loop>

The best way to learn how to use the templates is to start working with them. Copy an existing template and alter it to fit your needs.

One last thing: be carefull not to edit the system templates. If you want to use a different template just make a new one.

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