[Empty Starter] : The Language Variable Content Type is not visible from the Content portlet

[jcastro-dotcms]

Problem Statement

In the Empty Starter, the Language Variable type is marked as a system type. This is incorrect, and is NOT set as system in the Full Starter. A new Empty Starter must be generated.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Start up dotCMS with the latest master branch using the Empty Starter.
2. Go to the Schema > Content Types portlet to make sure that the Language Variable type is there.
3. Go to the Content > Search portlet and click the Type dropdown.
4. You will NOT see the Language Variable type in there.

Acceptance Criteria

The Language Variable type is NOT a system type, and should be accessible for Users to create contents of such a type.

Create a UT that marks the Language Variable Content Type as system = false and also update our starter, doing this would require our current customers in 23.10 LTS that do a reindex so this content will show.

dotCMS Version

Latest master, 23.06, and probably older versions.

Proposed Objective

Core Features

Proposed Priority

Priority 2 - Important

[wezell]

@jcastro-dotcms - I think it should be a system type. Happy to discuss.

[john-thomas-dotcms]

@wezell the reason this came up is because, in the empty starter, the Language Variable content type doesn't show up in the Content Search screen. It just doesn't appear in the Type drop-down, because, as a system type, it's hidden.

This is the part that seems like it's not working as expected. I think if it could be changed from a system type to a normal type, it wouldn't be a problem. But from my understanding, that's not possible without directly changing the DB. And that doesn't seem like a good pattern to have.

[wezell]

@damen-dotcms Standardizing on using the languageVariable content type for all language props should be part of the multi-lingual initiative.

[erickgonzalez]

Customer hitting this: https://dotcms.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/114941

[josemejias11]

Approved: Tested on master_8e38971, Docker, macOS 13.0, FF v121.0.1

[erickgonzalez]

Not Apply for 23.01 LTS