No Language Support Blank behaviour for module config settings

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@ro-webdesign commented on Aug 16, 2018, 11:24 AM UTC:

Short description of the issue

In a module that has language-enabled config settings fields, there is no option for inheriting the default language when the field's default value is blank. This differs from PW native language-enabled fields where the behaviour can be configured at field settings level, but defaults to "Inherit value from default language".

Discussion with examples here: https://processwire.com/talk/topic/19525-cookie-management-banner/?page=3&tab=comments#comment-171453

Expected behavior

When a module's config setting is rendered on the front end of the site, and non-default language values for that setting are left blank, if a user's context is for a non-default language, that field shouldn't by default render a blank value.

Actual behavior

Module setting renders a blank value if nothing is entered for that language.

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. Install multi-language support and add at least one non-default language
2. Install a module that renders config settings on the front end (e.g. CookieManagementBanner) for config settings with 'useLanguages' => true
3. Enter module setting content for the default language but not for the non-default language(s).
4. Display a page on the site that renders the values from this module. When viewed in the non-default language context, the module setting displays nothing.

Setup/Environment

• ProcessWire version: 3.0.98
• PHP version: 5.4.28 - 7.0.31
• Any 3rd party modules that are installed and could be related to the issue: CookieManagementBanner, only because this is where the issue was noticed.

This issue was moved by netcarver from processwire/processwire-issues#676.

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@netcarver commented on Feb 8, 2019, 9:15 PM UTC:

ro-webdesign I'm going to re-open this one over in the request repository.