How do I create language variants of products in DW8?

Ilja Alaoja

Posted on 07/08/2012 16:48:37

I am currently trying to create language variants of products and product variants. The API documentation mentions the method MakeFullCopyToGroupWithLanguage but this method doesn't seem to exist in DW8. I've tried a few different approaches, but I'm not having any success.

What is the best practice when creating language variants of products in DW8?

Replies

Imar Spaanjaars

Posted on 08/08/2012 17:40:46

Hi there,

You can just set the Language on the product and save. For some odd reason you also need to set the Context language. Something like this should work:

foreach (var language in myImportSettings.Languages)
{
  Context.LanguageID = language.LanguageId;
  Context.Language = new Language(language.LanguageId);

  dwBaseProduct.Language = new Language(language.LanguageId);
  dwBaseProduct.LongDescription = "Localized description";
  dwBaseProduct.Save();
}

Here, myImportSettings is some custom object that exposes a List<Language> where Language is a custom object which as, among other things a LanguageId property that contains the DW language, such as LANG2.

Don't forget to set the context language back to what it was afterwards.

Hope this helps,

Imar

Ilja Alaoja

Posted on 09/08/2012 17:24:28

Thank you for your reply, Imar. Your solution works indeed, but something that seems very curious to me happens when I create the language variants. After I've created the product and its product variants I try to create the language variants, but it seems that no matter what I do, the first product variant of the first language variant gets overwritten by the first product variant of the second language variant.

This is what it is supposed to look like:

ProductID	ProductLanguageID	ProductVariantID	ProductDefaultShopID	ProductNumber	ProductName
PROD111111	LANG2		SHOP1	11111100	Testprodukt 1
PROD111111	LANG2	VO550.VO602	SHOP1	11111100	Testprodukt 1
PROD111111	LANG2	VO550.VO598	SHOP1	11111101	Testprodukt 2
PROD111111	LANG3		SHOP1	11111100	Testprodukt 1
PROD111111	LANG3	VO550.VO602	SHOP1	11111100	Testprodukt 1
PROD111111	LANG3	VO550.VO598	SHOP1	11111101	Testprodukt 2

This is what it looks like:

ProductID	ProductLanguageID	ProductVariantID	ProductDefaultShopID	ProductNumber	ProductName
PROD111111	LANG2		SHOP1	11111100	Testprodukt 1
PROD111111	LANG2	VO550.VO598	SHOP1	11111101	Testprodukt 2
PROD111111	LANG3		SHOP1	11111100	Testprodukt 1
PROD111111	LANG3	VO550.VO602	SHOP1	11111100	Testprodukt 1
PROD111111	LANG3	VO550.VO598	SHOP1	11111101	Testprodukt 2

I am totally puzzled by this. Do you have any idea of what might cause this?

Vladimir

Posted on 10/08/2012 02:45:16

Hi Llja,
this is unusual behavior for product saving.
But the method prod.Save() exactly the same as that used in DW admin.
May you check, when you are saving an extended variant for LANG3 in DW admin - will this operation cause the appearing of extended variant for LANG2?

Kind regards,
Vladimir

You must be logged in to post in the forum

Developer forum

How do I create language variants of products in DW8?

Replies