Report should fall back to the default language in settings.py when displaying string data

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Arches is a web platform for creating, managing, & visualizing geospatial data. Arches was inspired by the needs of the Cultural Heritage community, particularly the widespread need of organizations to build & manage cultural heritage inventories

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Report should fall back to the default language in settings.py when displaying string data #10028

Open apeters opened 1 year ago

apeters commented 1 year ago

re: this post on the forum

Right now the report either displays the string data (values saved by resource editors) in the language the user requested if it exists or nothing at all. Getting the value from the fallback language isn't even attempted.

When using the editor, the default value can be displayed by switching the language selector in the widget itself.

whatisgalen commented 6 months ago

I'm wondering what folks think of the wikipedia approach, which is to indicate which languages are available for a page (in this case, report) in a dropdown in the corner of the UI like so: