I understand NA is not multilingual based at this moment. But I think it should be able to at least have language parameter showing on the url for a site using multiple languages.  Just like Property Agent, it shows the language parameters correctly, no matter it's the listing view or the detail view.

But with news articles, it's quite confusing. Not only it generated a lot of duplicated pages but also people get lost when navigating the site ( they can not stay in one locale). Here are what I've found so far.

Have language parameter on the url ? - Always YES:
/Cate1/Cate12/tabid/xxx/articleType/ArchiveView/month/11/year/2007/language/en-US/default.aspx ( Date View )


Have language parameter on the url ? - Sometimes YES, sometimes NO:
/Cate1/Cate12/tabid/xxx/articleType/AuthorView/AuthorID/x/language/en-US/default.aspx    (Author View)
/Cate1/Cate12/tabid/xxx/articleType/AuthorView/AuthorID/x/Default.aspx                               (Author View)


Have language parameter on the url ? - Always NO:
/tabid/xxx/articleType/CategoryView/categoryId/xxx/Ha-Ha.aspx                                         (Category View)
/Cate1/Cate12/tabid/xxx/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/xxx/Ha-Ha.aspx                           (Article View)

I really hope the url thing can be more consistent.

I can not agree more...

I have big problems with this. I have a multi-lingual portal, and I explain here how I set up it: Multi-lingual portal

With Ventrian News Article, language is not inserted in the article URL. This cause VERY BIG problems, because when you are currently viewing a FRENCH page, and you receive an email notification with a link to the article (for commenting an ENGLISH article), you click on the hyperlink, and you are redirected on the FRENCH home page (and not the english article...). WHY ? Just because you are not in the correct locale.... That's why News Article URL should include the language parameter (standard DNN procedure). But for sure, News Article URL does *NOT* include language parameter in it.

It would be a great enhancement, for sure. This is one of the missing feature we are currently discussing. Since I made my "multi-lingual portal webpage" to explain how I set up a multi lingual portal, I have many people contacting me, to know which problem I face, and how I solve them... This one is a problem that I can not solve alone....

Scott, any idea ?

DV FX

Both the category links are calling the core method (navigateUrl):-

If (launchLinks) Then Return NavigateURL(tabID, "CategoryView", "categoryId=" & categoryID, "mid=" & moduleID) Else Return NavigateURL(tabID, Null.NullString, "articleType=CategoryView", "categoryId=" & categoryID) End If

I'll have to do some more investigation.

Thanks DV, I've found the issue, I'm calling the provider directly while the core has recently added this setting which does:-

'only add language to url if more than one locale is enabled, and if admin did not turn it off If Localization.GetEnabledLocales.Count > 1 AndAlso Localization.UseLanguageInUrl Then If Language = "" Then strURL += "&language=" & Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.Name Else strURL += "&language=" & Language End If End If

I'll put this in the article link function.

I tried it. 00.06.17
Nothing is changed to my point of view. Check my website and URLs, they are still the same. Do I have to change something somewhere ?

DV FX

OK, now it works ! In fact, the problem was somewhere else ! In some cases, when I update your module, I noticed that new functionnality are not working, or like if it was not working (cache like...) Even after re-starting the application it does not work...

So, I have to go into each MAIN MODULE, and to update them (I open the main options, and I press Update - without making any change). And then it works.

This is what happened here, now it is working great !!! But, for an unknown reason, Google is now trying to indexing my webpages as follows: domain.com /language/language/Home/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/480/Easy-install-of-Studio-12/fr-FR.aspx
Very strange.....
Instead of domain.com /language/fr-FR/Home/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/480/Easy-install-of-Studio-12.aspx

Do you have any idea ???? iFinity (Bruce Chapman might have an idea as well ??? I am using URL Master)
DV FX

PS: Complete error log, in case someone else have the problem:

AssemblyVersion: 04.08.04
PortalID: 0
PortalName: My Web
UserID: -1
UserName:
ActiveTabID: 36
ActiveTabName: Main
RawURL: /language/language/Home/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/480/Easy-install-of-Studio-12/fr-FR.aspx
AbsoluteURL: /Default.aspx
AbsoluteURLReferrer:
UserAgent: GoogleBot
DefaultDataProvider: DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider, DotNetNuke.SqlDataProvider
ExceptionGUID: 5f2518ba-32ea-41b0-904b-f33dcf7667c1
InnerException: Error Detecting locale: Info= Step 1
FileName:
FileLineNumber: 0
FileColumnNumber: 0
Method: System.Globalization.CultureTableRecord..ctor
StackTrace:
Message: System.Exception: Error Detecting locale: Info= Step 1 ---> System.ArgumentException: Culture name 'language' is not supported. Parameter name: nameat System.Globalization.CultureTableRecord..ctor(String cultureName, Boolean useUserOverride)at System.Globalization.CultureTableRecord.GetCultureTableRecord(String name, Boolean useUserOverride)at System.Globalization.CultureInfo..ctor(String name, Boolean useUserOverride)at Delisoft.DNN.PageBases.MyLocale.d(TabLocalization_OptionsInfo A_0, LocaleCollection A_1)at Delisoft.DNN.PageBases.MyLocale.d()--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
Source:
Server Name: MyServer

Hello Scott,

You are right, the problem is coming from iFinity URL Master... Sic...
I will contact Bruce Chapman to see whether he can do something.

Otherwise, concerning the language parameters in the URL, it creates an additionnal problem, now Google webmaster tool is reporting plenty of duplicate (we have old URL working, as well as the new one...)
Can you do something ????

DV