Author information not available in multi-lingual sites

[thomasmassmann]

BUG/PROBLEM REPORT (OR OTHER COMMON ISSUE)

What I did:

• Create a new Plone site
• Install plone.app.multilingual
• Configure at least 2 different languages
• Navigate to some content
• Click on the author link in the document byline

What I expect to happen:

• Getting the author page with all created content by that author

What actually happened:

• Getting a 404 not found

What version of Plone/ Addons I am using:

• Plone 5.2.3 (5210)
• plone.app.multilingual 5.6.2

Possible solution

The author view is registered for IPloneSiteRoot:

  <browser:page
      for="Products.CMFPlone.interfaces.IPloneSiteRoot"
      name="author"
      class=".author.AuthorView"
      permission="zope.Public"
      template="templates/author.pt"
      />

Changing the registration to INavigationRoot will fix the 404 error in multi lingual sites:

  <browser:page
      for="plone.app.layout.navigation.interfaces.INavigationRoot"
      name="author"
      class=".author.AuthorView"
      permission="zope.Public"
      template="templates/author.pt"
      />

Calling the author view on the root Plone site will also show the author information. This is ok, but a redirect to the current language version would be better.

Some templates — like for the documents byline — already use the navigation root url (${context/@@plone_portal_state/navigation_root_url}/author/${creator_id}), not the plone site url. This is in my opinion the correct way.

Further notes

The registration and relevant code for the author information hasn’t been changed in years, so this applies to all current Plone versions (4.x - now).

[cyriltata]

Just faced this issue. @thomasmassmann did you implement your suggested solution?

[thomasmassmann]

Not yet 😞

[cyriltata]

Well I would just be going with portal_view_customizations for now. Like in the case of plone.belowcontenttitle.documentbyline using ${context/@@plone_portal_state/portal_url}/author/${creator_id} works