I’m curious to know other peoples experience with varying individual blocks by culture.
I’ve tried in on a few projects now, and either I don’t understand how to set up properly, or I don’t like it.
We tend to have all blocks vary by culture, and then share the block list across all cultures. By we see that editors have a hard time understanding the block variants.
To me, it feels simpler that they just create blocks for each language variant.
Also, when deleting a varying block, it deletes in all other languages. So if you create a variant by accident, you have no way to remove the variant.
Well it depends on what you want to achieve. If you share the block list, but vary the individual blocks by culture you are essentially saying: I want every language to have the same blocks, but the content needs to vary by language. If you also vary the block list by culture, you want to allow different blocks per culture.
So it really depends on what you want to do. If the block list itself is not varied by culture, is makes sense that deleting a block will delete it in all cultures, because you are essentially removing it from the block list, which is shared.
So do whatever the requirement is of the project. And sometimes it’s also just a matter of education. I personally don’t see an other way to do this.