Problem with multilingual categories

[panoss]

Hi everybody
I 'm trying to make a bilingual e-shop (English - Greek) with Virtuemart (3.0.14) in my localhost.

My Joomla installation (3.62) is bilingual, works fine.

I Installed everything for VM to add Greek Language as per these instructions.

But when I create a new category, and while it has not yet been saved, I can't choose language, as there is no drop-down box for language selection.
It only has 'ENG English (en-GB)', so I can save it only as English.

I looked in table #__virtuemart_categories_en_gb and it was saved there.

(I created a table #__virtuemart_categories_el_gr which I concluded that should exist, but it didn't)

Now that the category was saved, I could choose a language.
I chose 'Greek' and saved it again.
The page was refreshed BUT the language on the left was 'ENG English (en-GB)' again! (in some other related topics I found that that's because it takes joomla's dfault language, which is quite strange, it should indicate the category's language).

Anyway I looked again in tables: the category was in both (#__virtuemart_categories_en_gb AND #__virtuemart_categories_el_gr)!!

So, something is very wrong with multilinguality in VM.
Or I have made some incorrect installation?

Is there something I can check? Or fix?

VM does not work in Joomla 3.62? Only in 2.5?

I just tried and with the Joomla 2.5 (VirtueMart3.0.14_Joomla_2.5.29-Stable-Full_Package.zip), exactly the same bahavior ...

[GJC Web Design]

with J3.6.x u must be on VM3.0.16+ http://dev.virtuemart.net/attachments/download/1000/com_virtuemart.3.0.16_extract_first.zip

Anyway I looked again in tables: the category was in both (#__virtuemart_categories_en_gb AND #__virtuemart_categories_el_gr)!!

why is this a problem?  these are translations of cats..  not different cats in GR and EN

[panoss]

Anyway I looked again in tables: the category was in both (#__virtuemart_categories_en_gb AND #__virtuemart_categories_el_gr)!!

why is this a problem?  these are translations of cats..  not different cats in GR and EN

Let me describe what I did for showing a list of categories in the front page of VM:

In Joomla I have 3 menus:
1. Main Menu : Language: ALL
2. Main Menu EN: Language: English
       menu item HOME, Language: English, Menu Item Type: front page (that is VM frontpage)
3. Main Menu GR: Language: Greek
       menu item HOME, Language: Greek, Menu Item Type: front page

In VM:
I made a category twice:
1. Name = 'Curtains', Language: English
2. Name = 'Curtines', Language: Greek

They have as parent the 'root'.

BUT they appear both simultaneously:
When I switch language (with language switcher) to 'English' and click on 'HOME' I see:
Curtains  Curtines

(I should see only 'Curtains')


The same when I switch to 'Greek'.

(I should see only 'Curtines')


Maybe I'm doing something wrong?

[GJC Web Design]

I made a category twice:
1. Name = 'Curtains', Language: English
2. Name = 'Curtines', Language: Greek

why?

you make curtains once in en-- save -- choose Greek in the dropdown, translate

why are u making 2 separate cats for the same products? - just translate them

[panoss]

You 're right guys, I only had to choose 'greek' from the drop down, translate it an save it.
And it works! 

But I had to add, manually, another table: '#__virtuemart_vendors_el_gr'. That's not very encouraging.

Thank you all!

edit1:
Well...it doesn't exactly work: I added two more categories (with parent category 'Top level category') but it only shows the first category in the front page!

edit2:
In the 'Images' tab of one of the categories, I chose Language 'Select all' saved it and the categories appeared! All 3 of them.
I deleted the languages from the 'Languages' field, saved it and continues to work.
Don't know what happened...


But I can't change the ordering of the categories in the front page...
I tried in the 'Product Categories' menu, where we can see the list of the categories, clickinw in the arrow of the category (in the ordering column), a message showed up:
Item Moved Down but the ordering of the categories in the front page remains unchanged.
I also tried in the edit view of the category, Product Category Form->Details->Category Ordering, nothing.

[panoss]

I entered a new category, it didn't show in the front page.
But after a few minutes passed...it shows in the front page!!

Does this sound normal to you?

[jenkinhill]

You should clear caches every time when testing.

[panoss]

You should clear caches every time when testing.

I tried it, didn't work.

[panoss]

In class VirtueMartModelCategory
function getChildCategoryList I put:

$useCache = false;

And now works normally, it updates immediately.

It must be related to cache, but clearing my browsers' cache didn't help.

[GJC Web Design]

You should clear caches every time when testing.

the JOOMLA cache!

But I had to add, manually, another table: '#__virtuemart_vendors_el_gr'.

odd this.. quite  a few report that the lang tables don't get created .. but this is normally fixed by using the VM->Tools-> Table updater

[fotonio]

The virtuemart creates automatically the appropriate tables for the language you have as site default in the moment of the VM component installation.
Try to set greek as default site language and install again virtuemart without uninstalling. It will create the tables for the greek language.
That worked for me.