Revolution: Feature request: Add lexicon support for element descriptions

[sdrenth]

Summary

Would be nice if we could use lexicons for element descriptions, think of:

• TV title
• TV description
• TV options (for select list)
• Template names
• Template description

etc.

[jonleverrier]

I believe thats been discussed here:
https://github.com/modxcms/revolution/pull/11394

I think it's still at idea stage.

But I'd love to see something like this in MODX!

[Oetzie]

I'm going to try and fix this today #modxbughunt

[OptimusCrime]

Any luck @Oetzie ?

[Oetzie]

A status update for this feature.

• Categories supports lexicons:
  
  
  
  • In the MODX trees
  
  
  • In the MODX combo's (getlist processor)
  
  
  • In the resource TV panel
  
  
• TVs supports lexicons:
  
  
  
  • In the MODX trees
  
  
  • In the resource TV panel
  
  
  • In the 'TV tab' of a template
  
  
• Templates supports lexicons:
  
  
  
  • In the MODX trees
  
  
  • In the MODX combo's (getlist processor)
  
  

What I still need to fix is that TV options can support lexicons, after that I will create a pull request.

I made a new namespace called 'Lexicon' and that namespace holds all the translations. I did not make any language files in the core/lexicon/ directory, but I made the language files in the core/components/lexicon directory so the translations won't be overwritten in an update.

[azeller]

Big +1 for this issue.

[hugopeek]

Yes, this is important. I feel a bit embarrassed sometimes when promoting MODX as multilingual, while not being able to give editors instructions in their own language above a TV. And for an Arabic project, this proved especially cumbersome.

[sottwell]

Something along the lines of ModDevTools might work well for this, its code might be worth looking at.

[Ibochkarev]

@Oetzie Hello! Did it turn out to complete the decision on this request?