Page Preview Generation Issue with Non-Existent Language Bookmark in dotCMS

[bryanboza]

Problem Statement

In dotCMS, users encounter an issue where generating a page preview is not possible if they attempt to add a bookmark in a language for which the page does not exist. This limitation hinders the ability to effectively manage multilingual content and disrupts the workflow for users working with multiple languages.

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Steps to Reproduce

• Log into the dotCMS backend with the necessary credentials.
• Navigate to a page that exists in one language but not in another (e.g., exists in English but not in Spanish).
• Attempt to add a bookmark to this page in the non-existent language (e.g., Spanish).
• Observe that the page preview fails to generate.

Acceptance Criteria

Graceful Handling of Non-Existent Language Pages: When a user attempts to add a bookmark in a language that the page does not exist in, the system should handle this gracefully, either by providing a meaningful error message or by redirecting to a default language version.

Documentation Update: Update the dotCMS documentation to clearly explain the behavior of the page preview feature in the context of multilingual content management.

dotCMS Version

Tested on master // Docker // FF

Proposed Objective

Quality Assurance

Proposed Priority

Priority 2 - Important

[fmontes]

We need to test this in UVE

[fmontes]

This doesn’t happen in UVE. If you try to access a page in a non-existent language, it will prompt you to create the page in that language.