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giannag
Adept
13 years ago

Freemarker for Category's Language Default?

Hello!   I am writing an if/else statement for when to display Japanese test or images on our community.  In psudocode: "IF the user's personal language setting is set to Japanese OR the page's de...
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    Claudius
    13 years ago

    Just make sure that in both code examples the condition of the if-statement is compared correctly.

    There should be two equation signs when comparing a variable with a string:

    <#if (settings.name.get("profile.language") == "ja") || (coreNode.settings.name.get("profile.language") == "ja") >

     Maybe that's why it didn't work in your initial testing when comparing agains settings.name

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KaelaC
Lithium Alumni (Retired)
<#if (settings.name.get("profile.language") = "ja") || (coreNode.settings.name.get("profile.language") = "ja") >

This should check both the user and the board/category/whatever node. I think just setttings.name... would work, too, but this is explicit
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Claudius
Boss
13 years ago

Just make sure that in both code examples the condition of the if-statement is compared correctly.

There should be two equation signs when comparing a variable with a string:

<#if (settings.name.get("profile.language") == "ja") || (coreNode.settings.name.get("profile.language") == "ja") >

 Maybe that's why it didn't work in your initial testing when comparing agains settings.name

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    giannag
    Adept
    13 years ago

    Thank you!!!  This is just what I was looking for!!