Confused about "featured" and "recommended"

[heerbovec]

I am confused about the recommandation system in the current verson of mediaCMS.

One problem can be easily fixed: both "featured" and "recommended" are translated as "Empfohlen" in the German de.py, which obviously is unhelpful. But secondly I have not been able to figure out how those two different properties can be set and will work.

As an ordinary user one is able to mark an entry as "featured" even if the adjacent comment says:
"Featured - Whether media is globally featured by a MediaCMS editor"

There is, on the other hand, no obvious way to achieve the individual user's mark "recommended" as suggested by the comment "Featured by the user" to be found in the general admin listings of media. In fact in my installation almost (!) "all public items are automatically assigned the "recommandation" label, which definitely is unwelcome.

Could someone please clear this up for me?

h.h.

[mgogoulos]

There's an algorithm that generates recommended media for the index page. This can be adjusted, or even disabled.

Now for the featured items, although you see the text - Whether media is globally featured by a MediaCMS editor you cannot make the check there, it's only for admins/managers/editors to select. You can see it if a media was featured but you cannot edit that choice unless you belong to one of these groups.

The translation has to change indeed, feel free to send a PR

Regards