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Problem:
I duplicated my products from a secondary language, this works great. But how do I duplicate the attributes of this products, so they appear also in this secondary language and not in my default language.
Solution:
we do not recommend duplicating from a secondary language, as this might cause unpredictable issues in the synchronization between languages.

This doesn't mean it is not possible, but rather tricky.

To duplicate a product correctly from a secondary language to third language, you could follow this thread : https://wpml.org/forums/topic/copy-duplicate-products-from-secondary-language-to-third-language/

But if this didn't solve the issue with attributes duplication, I would recommend duplicating the content from the default language > Translate that duplication

PS : If you are using the Advanced Translation Editor, you won't have to translate it from scratch, as this editor contains “translation memory” that saves your previous translations in a given language.
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Last updated by basv-25 1 year, 7 months ago.

Assisted by: Ilyes.

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May 24, 2023 at 3:09 pm #13709053

basv-25

Hi there, I duplicated my products from a secondary language, this works great. But how do I duplicate the attributes of this products so they appear also in this secondary language and not in my default language?

May 24, 2023 at 4:21 pm #13709973

Ilyes
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Hello again,

After further verification, we do not recommend duplicating from a secondary language, as this might cause unpredictable issues in the synchronization between languages.

This doesn't mean it is not possible, but rather tricky.

To duplicate a product correctly from a secondary language to third language, you could follow this thread : https://wpml.org/forums/topic/copy-duplicate-products-from-secondary-language-to-third-language/

But if this didn't solve the issue with attributes duplication, I would recommend duplicating the content from the default language > Translate that duplication

PS : If you are using the Advanced Translation Editor, you won't have to translate it from scratch, as this editor contains “translation memory” that saves your previous translations in a given language.

I hope this helps,