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Multilanguage filters

Rob Lohmann
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It would be very nice if searchfilters would be multilanguage, this functionality is completely missing at the moment.
For our client (www.zoeandlola.com and www.oosterik.nl) we've created an multilanguage website. When going live (with zoeandlola.com) we noticed that the filters on the english website remained in Dutch. Even though the productgroups were correctly translated in English. I've contacted Dynamicweb Holland about this and they provided me an work-around using if-statements. This works for now, but it would be great if filters would be multilanguage. Right now it is very difficult for us to explain our customers how filtering works and how they need to modify them if they decide to add productgroups. It just isn't user friendly.

Also looking for the right groupid ourselves when using visibility options isn't workable, this isn't something we easily can explain to our customers when they want to change their filtering.

A third and last point for improvement would be the tagname. For example, if an customer decides to create a new filter he's required to enter a tagname. Without the correct tagname in the template the filter is never shown. Often we setup the correct filteroptions when developing the website, but even the slightest change in the tagname would break the entire filtering.

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