hello

thanks thanks a lot for your generous work in this module.
i have been reading tutorials and documentation and i was able to make it work in all but in menus.
i dont find a way or an explanation on how to do it.
sorry for my bad english, i am going to explain what i do and i think it would be nice if you put it in the documentation. (or if you answer here, i can do it).
i am working with drupal 7.8 and your last dev version.

i have a content type that in multilingual settings has only these 2 options selected: Require language (Do not allow Language Neutral) and Normal - All enabled languages will be allowed.

this content type has the main menu as menu to add nodes. this menu has: Translate and Localize. Menu items with language will allow translations. Menu items without language will be localized.

then i create a node and i add a menu item to the main menu.
i create a translation of this node in two other languages and also add a menu item to the main menu for each.

i go to the main menu and edit the first menu item.
i select to translate it in en/admin/structure/menu/item/xxx/translate
on the bottom of this page, i get:

Translations
Enter items that will be considered as translations of each other.

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there i have a select for each language but it is not populated.
if i switch to the spanish language
es/admin/structure/menu/item/xxx/translate
the spanish select gets populated and i can select the option and save.
the other selects wont get populated.
if i save, the spanish option gets saved as translation.

then if i go to other language and save, this language overrides the option selected in spanish and saves this language.
so i can only choose one language.

i am sure that i do something wrong in somewhere... so i ask, please, that you document or give tips on how to do it.... :)
thanks very much for this module that allows us to use drupal :)

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candelas commented
Title: which is the best method to translate menus? » which is the best method to translate menus items?

i have chosen, in the User interface text language detection, the URL option (Determine the language from the URL (Path prefix or domain) with Path prefix.

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candelas commented
Status: Active » Fixed

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it looks that explaining to you helped to me :)
if i change in admin/config/regional/language/language_switcher from 'Only current language' to 'Selected languages from language block' the select in admin/structure/menu/item/xxx/translate are populated... and every thing works ok.
sometimes it is not easy to understand so many options to a foreigner... :)
thanks a lot for this useful tool!

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candelas commented
Category: support » bug
Status: Fixed » Active

i reopen the issue because the menus items work ok while they come from a node, but if you create directly the menu item (add a menu item in the menu) and then translate, they work ok in the user interface but they get duplicated in the select when you go to create a node.

i try to explain in an example since my english it is not very good.

if i create a node and in the node 'menu settings' i create a menu item and then translate, all works perfect.
if i create in the main menu an item and translate it, when i go to create a new node, in the menu settings select, it gets all the translations. i mean it gets duplicated while the other doesnt.

this happens with an external link or if you use Special Menu Items to make menu items without a link.

thanks a lot for your generous work :)

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candelas commented
Category: bug » support
Status: Active » Fixed

i think better i close this issue and open a new one with duplicate items.
sorry for not being used to this way of working.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.