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Using alternative (translated) titles in dynamic menus in Lektor

I'm new to Lektor and I've been using this snippet in my layout to dynamically generate menus

{% for content in site.get('/').children %}
    <li><a href="{{ content|url(alt=alt) }}">{{ content.title }}</a></li>
{% endfor %}

It works fine to produce the alt url accordingly to the alternative (language) selected, but the title is still shown only in the primary language of the content instead of the translated one.

That means that when a say french alt is selected (and present in the url), menus are still i.e. Main, Contact instead of the french translated version.

I know I can work around this using a databag to hold a language mapping for the menus, but that would require to duplicate the title information in the databag and then make sure it stays in sync with whatever is in content.title.

Ideally what I'm missing is a filter for title where you can specify the alt you want to use, or some other method that I'm not aware of?

Solution

  • Naive as it may be, I didn't realize that you can pass the alt parameter in site.get until after I looked at the source code. So the way to get the defined child pages for a certain language is:

    {% for content in site.get('/', alt=alt).children %}
    <li><a href="{{ content }}">{{ content.title }}</a></li>
{% endfor %}

    And since we already specified the alt parameter in the get, we don't need to filter the url anymore for the current alt.