I admit that this question comes from my lack of deep understanding of the multi-language system. I've seen that the language selection field is not available in the "manage fields" tab for node types. My conclusion is that the language selection field doesn't use the field API. So, my question is: there is any reason why this should not treated as a normal field?

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stefan vaduva’s picture

stefan vaduva commented
Priority: Minor » Normal

No opinions on this? Oh, well... I'll get back and reply to this if I'll manage to figure it out myself.

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klonos
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Version: 7.9 » 7.12
Status: Active » Fixed

#1074672: Allow language select to be rearranged inside node form just got committed to D8 and is now waiting to be ported to D7. So, I'm pretty sure it'll be fixed in the next stable version of D7. Marking this issue fixed, since the support question is answered ;)

PS: ...strangely, I have this feature in most of my setups, but I cannot spot the contrib module that offers it. If I figure out which one it is, I'll post it here (for those that do not upgrade to newer versions of Drupal as soon as they come out).

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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

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pvbob commented

I had the same question and found that the "Multilingual Content" module enables the language selection field in the node's Manage Fields tab, https://drupal.org/node/1279644, just in case someone else has the same question.