Joomfish direct link to translation

Question

I am developing a large multinational site that uses JoomFish 2.5.1 and I believe I have spotted a bug, or I am doing something wrong.

The problem I am having is whilst creating a workflow system for my translators I need to be able to link them directly to a backend page for the translation. I am using a URL in the form:

http://[SITE_URL]/administrator/index.php?option=com_joomfish&task=translate.edit&catid=k2_items&cid%5B0%5D=%7C237%7C8

Where the last variable is an array that contains the 'id', 'reference_id' and 'language_id' respectively from the #_jf_content table. In the form:

cid = array(
    [0] => id|reference_id|language_id
)

Which works fine, except for the language is not updated in the right hand panel when viewing the page. So say I am viewing a page and I change the language_id, the content on the page updates accordingly all except for the drop down language selection on the right. Which is causing a kink in my workflow system. It doesn't update at all in Chrome, seems to work better in Safari and Firefox. However I can't restrict my translators to specific browsers.

Any ideas on why this might be happening? And how to solve the issue.

Any help or incite would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I have now figured this out. For anyone else experiencing this problem, you need to add another parameter to the URL &select_language_id= and make this the same as the language_id used in the last variable in the cid array.