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[Benn Oshrin <>]

Hey Ioannis,

Your timing here is very good, as the dev group just had a similar 
conversation about increasing the use of the COmanage CO for platform 
configuration. (See notes in https://todos.internet2.edu/browse/CO-1481)

Originally, the thought was that platform localization could happen via 
the lang.php file (see also CO-1168), but in practice updating that file 
is a bit of a pain, and obviously requires VM level access. So I agree 
your proposal makes sense.

One consideration is that this is technically a breaking change, and 
therefore would need to be scheduled for v4.0.0. While I expect very few 
deployments are doing so, any current deployments that have localized 
text in the COmanage CO would need to do some form of reconfiguration, 
otherwise those texts would become platform wide after upgrading.

So if we want to move ahead with this, I think the steps are

1. Open a new JIRA issue, linked to CO-1168 and CO-1481
2. Create a new develop-4.0.0 branch (or something) and ultimately 
submit the PR against that branch.
3. Merge develop-4 into develop later this year, depending on the 
project release cycle.

Thanks,

-Benn-

On 5/14/19 4:28 AM, Ioannis Igoumenos wrote:
> Hi Benn,
>
> while trying to set a couple of *global* localization variables in 
> COManage, i understood that i could not do it.
>
> What i mean is that we added some localization variables in the COManage 
> default CO and we expected to see this variables everywhere. 
> Nevertheless, this did not happen.
>
> For us it would make sense if the localization variables created in 
> comanage default CO, were global even for home(display) page. 
> Continuously, if a user creates a new localization variable in a 
> specific CO, then this variable would
>
> overwrite all the previous. Something like the custom Theme functionality.
>
>
> Does this make sense to you?
>
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Ioannis
>
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