URL picker will not work correctly when multiple culture is in use

[bielu]

Which Umbraco version are you using? (Please write the exact version, example: 10.1.0)

8-13

Bug summary

So URL picker is using current culture context when choosing content in picker.
Issue is when we have multiple culture and we pick content which is not publish in current culture.

So I can see 2 option to solve issue:

1. Add culture picker to MultiUrl picker
2. make content finder which will find any published culture (which would be expensive and not great editor experience)

Specifics

No response

Steps to reproduce

1. Create site which vary by culture
2. create Multi Url Picker field
3. create at least 2 culture
4. create page in culture a, and create second page in culture b
5. from culture a try to link to page which is published only culture a.

Expected result / actual result

Expected result:
Link works and directing to other culture if not available in current culture
Actual Result:
Link property returns null value as content is not published

[github-actions]

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[Migaroez]

Hey @bielu

Thank you for bringing this use-case to our attention, this however does not seem to be a bug but a possible lack in functionality.

In general you can use the language fallback feature to make sure that if a piece of content is not filled in (including a page picked with a picker), that you use the value on the default language instead.

Since this feature is an all or nothing on the whole value, you can't set individual links to other cultures, so it might be a good idea to supply an option to select nodes from a different culture.

For this reason, I am going to change this ticket into a feature request.

[bielu]

@Migaroez the fallback will work only if it is in default language, so it does not address problem... :) best solution would be to add culture picker in url picker.

[TheBekker]

+1 on this.
This also makes it impossible to link between language variations.

Lets say on "Page1 (en-us)" i wanna link to "Page1 (da-dk)", that is not possible.