Multilang field

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Metadata Fields: Arclanguage - Base64 - Bigint - Boolean - Compound - Counter - Dataobjref - Date - Decimal - Email - Fields - Float - Id - Idci - Image - Int - Itemref - Keywords - Langid - Longtext - Longtext_counter - Multilang - Multipart - Name - Namedset - Pagerange - Recaptcha - Recaptcha3 - Relation - Search - Secret - Set - Storable - Subject - Subobject - Text - Time - Timestamp - Url - Uuid

Description

Allows multiple text values to be recorded representing the same text in different languages. This is a sub-class of the Compound field as at least two sub-fields are required. At least one to store the text and one to store the language (sub-field called lang) in which it is written. By default a Multilang field still sets multiple => 0 so if more than only one language will be used for any one record then multiple => 1 also needs to be set.

The languages available for the lang sub-field are specified in the cfg/namedsets/languages file.

Inheritance

• Metadata
  • Compound field
    • Multilang field

Additional Properties

Same as Compound fields except for

Name	Default Value	Required	Description	Notes
input_boxes	1	NO	Number of boxes for this field in input form to insert separate values.	Different from Metadata default (0).
input_ordered	0	NO	Whether the rows of values are numbered and therefore can be re-ordered.	Different from Metadata default (1). Ordering is unnecessary, as priority is determined based on the language sub-field value (and the repository's configuration for language prioritisation).
match	IN	NO	How to match values in search results.	Different from Metadata default (EQ). Treat the search value as a list of whitespace-separated words rather than a single string.

Required Phrases

Same as Compounds fields but rather than needing:

datasetid + "_fieldname_" + fieldname

Multilang fields require the following phrases. The first directly replaces the original fieldname phrase and the second specifies the language used:

datasetid + "_fieldname_" + fieldname + "_" + subfieldname
datasetid + "_fieldname_" + fieldname + "_lang"

As Multilang fields are compound there may be more than two phrases to add depending on the number of subfields specified.

If you were to change the title phrase for an eprint to have type multilang, you would need the phrases:

eprint_fieldname_title_text
eprint_fieldname_title_lang

If you modify the cfg/namedsets/languages file you will need to make sure you add the appropriate additional phrases in the form:

languages_typename_LANGID

E.g. languages_typename_fr_ca could be French Canadian

Database

Multilang fields do not have a standard way of being stored in the database as they are compound fields. The lang sub-field will appear in the dataset table (or separate table if a multiple field) as:

fieldname_lang VARCHAR(16)

API

See API page.

Examples

Most basic example.

{
    name => 'title_multilang',
    type => 'multilang',
    fields => [
        {
            sub_name => 'text',
            type => 'text',
        },
    ],
}

Multiple languages for a single record field.

{
    name => 'title_multilang',
    type => 'multilang',
    multiple => 1,
    fields => [
        {
            sub_name => 'text',
            type => 'text',
        },
    ],
}

More than one non-language sub-field.

{
    name => 'question',
    type => 'multilang',
    multiple => 1,
    fields => [
        {
            sub_name => 'question',
            type => 'longtext',
        },
        {
            sub_name => 'answer',
            type => 'text',
        },
    ],
}