Translated Table Text

The “Translated Table Text” attribute is the multilingual variant of the Table Text attribute. It enables the input of text data in a tabular structure with configured columns — per language with its own column labels and data values. The data is stored in a dedicated translation table, so no own column is created in the MetaModel table for this attribute.

Typical use cases:

Multilingual specification tables (e.g. “property + value” in DE and EN)
Translated opening hours with language-dependent weekday labels
Language-specific price lists or feature tables

Installation

The attribute is installed via the Contao Manager or Composer:

composer require metamodels/attribute_translatedtabletext

Settings when Creating the Attribute

In addition to the general attribute settings, the attribute offers the following specific options:

Option	Description
Number of columns	Defines the number of table columns. This value determines how many columns can be configured in the multilingual column wizard.
Column settings (translated)	Multi-column wizard for defining column labels per language. For each language and each column, the following can be specified: Language — Language code (e.g. `de`, `en`) Label — Name of the column in this language Width — Width of the column in the input form (e.g. `200px`) The column labels are output language-specifically in the backend and in the frontend template.
Minimum number of rows	Minimum number of data rows displayed in the input form (0 = no minimum).
Maximum number of rows	Maximum number of data rows that can be entered (0 = no limit).
Disable sorting	Hides the up/down buttons for manual row sorting in the input form.

Settings in Render Settings

The attribute has its own render setting:

Option	Description
Hide table header	Hides the column headings (labels) in the frontend output.
Template	Selection of a custom template for the output. If no template is specified, the output is as an HTML table.
CSS class	Optional CSS class added to the output element.

Settings in the Input Form

When the attribute is added to an input form, the following options are available:

Display

Option	Description
Backend class	CSS classes for the display of the field in the backend form.
Template for backend	Selection of a custom widget template for the backend form.
Template for frontend	Selection of a custom widget template for frontend editing (only available if the “Frontend Editing” extension is installed).

Filter Rules

Filter rule	Note
Levenshtein-based search	Similarity search with typo tolerance across all cell values of the active language; requires the package `attribute_levenshtein`.
Loupe	Full-text index search across all cell values; requires the package `filter_loupe` (from MM 2.4).

Special Functions

Database storage

The table values are stored per language in tl_metamodel_translatedtabletext (fields: att_id, item_id, langcode, row (row index), col (column index), value). No column is created in the MetaModel table.

Language-dependent column labels

Unlike the monolingual table text attribute, the column headings can be defined differently per language. In the frontend template, the column labels of the active language are output.

Fallback language

If a value is missing for a language, MetaModels falls back to the fallback language.

Column structure in the template

In the frontend template, the values are available as a nested array: $arrData['raw'] contains rows (row) with columns (col_0, col_1, …), where the column names are automatically generated from the number of columns. The translated column labels are available as $arrData['cols'].