Bug with item associations or user error?

[Bakual]

While implementing item associations into my extension I think I stumbled about a problem with it. But it may also be an error on my side. So I'm asking her first before opening a tracker.

When I associate two articles in the backend, everything works fine as expected. Switching the language will link to the matching article in frontend.

However if I edit one of this article in frontend, it will remove the associations and thus break the switching.

I believe this happens because the frontend edit form doesn't have the association fields. But I may miss something.

[infograf768]

Now looking into this

[infograf768]

Confirmed. Opened a tracker. http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_item_id=31158

Le vendredi 14 juin 2013 13:28:43 UTC+2, Bakual a écrit :

[Bakual]

Thanks for looking into it.

 

The fix in your tracker looks more like a workaround/hack to me, but it probably works from looking at it (need to test it myself).

Is it a design/security decision to not have the associations in the frontend edit? Or is it just a quick fix because otherwise it would need more work to fix it?

I'm mainly asking because I want to follow the Joomla behaviour in my own extension as close as possible.