LinguaPlone - link to available translations only

Question

When using page translations in Plone (v4) with LinguaPlone product (v4.1.2), links to all available languages selected in LinguaPlone settings (/<PORTAL>/@@language-controlpanel) are generated. I wonder if it can be configured to link only to available translations for the page (excluding the current language from the links as well). I can't see any relevant options even in /<PORTAL>/portal_languages/manage_configForm.

Answer 1

you'll have to customize the plone.app.i18n.locales.languageselector viewlet and adapt the available method to only show those languages where there is a translation for (context.getTranslations)

however, this will prevent visitors from switching to another language of the portal in case there is no translation to this language for the current context.

Answer 2

You should use http://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.portlet.lingualinks addon for that.

The global language switcher is in the head to display languages supported and should not be used to navigate between translated content.