Discussion on enabling deskStructure titles in other languages

Is there a way to enable setting deskStructure title's in other languages? I get an error any time that I try adding titles in Cyrillic

Can you show me the code snippet that triggers this please? Just the way you declare the field. 🙂

thanks for the quick reply

Ah right, you said the desk structure, not the schema. My bad. Alright, and it fails on the “Settings” translation, right?

I found it quite strange, as this sort of format works fine for titles inside of documents

any time I try to define a title in the deskStructure file that comes with the basic studio templates, it gives me that error, yeah. sorry

whereas with actual documents, it allows me to set the title however I want.

Right. Looking at the code , it seems that identifiers need to stick to a specific latin subset. That would go for ids, refs, types, etc. I think.

as with actual document, or object titles, I thought they were purely presentational? the .title() is in no way an identifier, is it?

That is my understanding of it, yes.

perhaps the deskStructure uses the title field as some sort of unique identifier, which is why only in that instance, it requires latin?

As far as I can tell, this error should only happen when you pass non-latin characters to

.documentId()

,

.id()

or

.schemaType()

. But it should be fine for

.title()

. Can you confirm?

I can confirm. This error shouldn't be happening. It doesn't make sense

Ah wait.

this is a .title() for a S.listItem() in the deskStructure; purely presentational

Can you please define the

.title()

after the other calls?

Looking at the code again, it seems that it uses

.spec.id

if defined, otherwise camelCase the title. But at this stage, the spec ID is not defined because you call the title method first.

like this? Is it possible to perhaps add a different field that would get used for that?

because the above image doesn't work. it still gives me the error

Right, so as far as I understand the code, it seems that calling the

.title()

method does not only set the title for some reason, it also set the ID. It first tries to read it on the list item instance (

.spec.id

) and if it’s not there (which is your case here) it derives the ID from the title — which is likely where the error comes from. So I’m wondering if we can try to define the title after we have defined the ID (one way or another). Still digging through the code.

adding a .id() property works

Right, that was what I was about to suggest as well. Define the ID yourself, and then define the title. This will make sure the call doesn’t derive an ID from the title.

this is what worked out. thank you very much. I appreciate the quick response and patience

That was a nifty one. Pretty weird if you ask me. I’m glad we figured it out though! 💚