Default Language on Item Submission Issue

[Hennie Kleynhans]

Good day everyone,

We've come across what might appear to be a bug during the item submission process. The default language is currently set as "en_ZA" in the local.cfg file (default.language = en_ZA), but when an item is deposited and we have a look at the full item page, the property in the "Lang" column is empty.

Please advise if we might be missing something or if this is a possible bug.

Thanks.

Kind Regards,

Hennie Kleynhans

[DSpace Community]

Hi,

This is a known issue documented at https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/10236

If you read the discussion, there's still disagreement about whether the current behavior is better than the previous one.  Currently, it's waiting on a volunteer to claim the ticket or further feedback.

Tim

[Allison Brown]

Hi Tim,

 

If someone has set the config to be a certain language, then you should not have to then make further changes unless the item you are dealing with requires variation.

 

Interesting to read the discussion. In the past I worked with a vendor to set the default to one language, except for ID fields because they will not be translated. (Dates can technically be translated.) Then updated all the existing records to match.

 

In the end, as long as this can be altered at the field / item level via the interface then I think it is fine to have it set to one language. This then allows variation to be applied per field when the item is in more than one language.

 

 

Kind regards,

Allison

 

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