Hide specific languages from language dropdown

[bjarnef]

Sometimes we prefer to create languages using the languages without country code, e.g. Danish, English, German etc.

However on Umbraco Cloud, Deploy we by default use "English (United States) (en-US)". We can delete this, but when we have previous did this, it may to re-added when creating new environments.

Sometimes one may also want to create a new language, prepare code etc. but not yet ready and one don't want content editors to start working the the new language variant.

Maybe there should be a setting on language or a config setting to hide a specific language from UI.

[skttl]

I think the default language (en-US) is a config setting you can change, and by that, prevent it from being autogenerated in new environments.

[bjarnef]

@AndyButland do you recall it there is a setting to specify the default language/culture.
I think the Umbraco Cloud support once mentioned it always created en-US when a new environment was added, so even though the language is deleted/removed, it may be re-added later.

[rasmusjp]

According to the docs you should be able to change the default data created by updating your appsettings.

While I haven't tested this on Cloud, it should work as long as you have deleted the en-US uda file from the Deploy data directory in git.

{
    "Umbraco": {
        "CMS": {
            "InstallDefaultData": { 
                "Languages": {
                    "InstallData": "Values",
                    "Values": ["en", "da"]
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

[bjarnef]

@rasmusjp thanks for mentioning this. However with Umbraco 11.4.1 and Deploy 11.1.2 I don't see intellisense for InstallDefaultData.

[bjarnef]

Intellisense suggest DefaultDataCreation though, but I don't get any suggestions about Languages, DataTypes etc.

[AndyButland]

The docs are correct here. I've raised a PR to fix the issue with the generated schema.