Multilanguage form with frontend data display

We are currently setting up a multi language website with some sort of guestbook.

All form entries need to be displayed on one page, regardless of the language the items have been posted from.
As far as I understand, this requires a single form for all languages, as we cannot merge several form data result sets.

We were thinking of using Joomla language override strings for all form field descriptions. (Currently form field descriptions are not send through JText::_() but we probably could fix this with a template override-)

But obviously that's not an option for the form description (editor). Any hints?

TIA!

As a side question: does visform fire an event like "on after form save" that we might be able to use? Pushing submitted data to another form (the single one used for displaying results) shouldn't be too difficult.

Cheers!

Hi,
sorry that it took me a while to answer, but I had to consider this problem for a while.
Yes there is such an event. See: www.vi-solutions.de/en/documentations/vi...loper-feature-events

About the "translation problem" using JText::_();

The form description is actually the easiest part. It is used directly in the defaut.php in the compontents view tmpl folder for which you can directly create an override file. ($this->visforms->description)

I think it is much more compllicated to use language strings in the field label or in field description option, because those field object values are processed in the layout files in the components layout folder. Although you can create template overrides for these layout files, I think it is quite a bit of work to create all these overrides.
And sadly, I can tell from my experience, that I do modify the layout files frequently, so that you will have to check after each visForms update.

Maybe this documentation article might help, although I must admit, that it is not totally up to date (bootstrap 3, bootstrap 4, uikit2 and uikit3 layouts are not documented ): www.vi-solutions.de/en/documentations/vi...layout-with-override

Regards,
Aicha