RichDocument attachments and Lingaplone

sometimes it's necessary to be able to add new imageattachments or
fileattachments to translations of a richdocument.

by default, the two fields displayImages and displayAttachments are
languageIndependent which really is okay for most cases.
however i think that conceptually it's a little wrong to couple the
uploading of attachments to the field that defines if the attachments shall
be shown in a box at the end of richdocument_view.
i'm sure there is a good reason for this (that i don't know about yet).

to be able to add attachments to translations i create a custom type that
subclasses richdocument and register the formcontroller actions by using
the nice methods martin provided in RichDocument.Extensions.utils
i copy the two fields from RichDocument.schema and set languageIndependent
to False. 

now i get the managementcontrols widgets in the edit view of the translated
object. unfortunately the linguaplone controllerpagetemplate
translate_item.cpt and the script translate_edit.cpy it calls after
successful validation do not play well with richdocument at the moment.
(uploading an imageattachments takes me to the objects view telling me that
"my changes have been saved" - which simply is not true ;-)

i think linguaplone has the limitation that it does not support custom
editforms at the moment. but in this case maybe registering the addidional
scripts richdocument provides to handle the data of the attachment
managementcontrols somewhere in this chain too could do the job.


please tell me what you think about this.

is there a need for lingaplone to support custom edit_forms?

should richdocument register fc actions to play well with linguaplone's edit
view in case displayImages or displayAttachments is set not to be
languageIndependent?

should richdocument decouple displayAttachments and attachment
managementcontrol?
 


thanks in advance,
  fRiSi



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