Django 3 Web Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

How it works...

We keep the language-specific fields of the default language in the Idea model itself. The translations for each language are in the IdeaTranslations model, which will be listed in the administration as an inline translation. IdeaTranslations don't have the language choices at the model for a reason – we don't want to create migrations every time a new language is added or some language is removed. Instead, the language choices are set in the administration form, also making sure that the default language is skipped or not available for selection in the list. The language choices are restricted using the LanguageChoicesForm class.

To get a specific field in the current language, you would use the fields defined as TranslatedField ...