Background of the issue:
I am trying to translate a Gutenberg page using the translation editor, but not all translations are marked as completed.
Symptoms:
The translated page is not visible on the frontend until the entire translation job is complete. The original page is displayed instead. A debug shows that only when everything on the translation queue is complete, the package strings are saved to the icl_string_translations table; before that, they are only saved to the icl_translate table in base64.
Questions:
Why are the few translations that are marked as complete not visible until the entire job is complete?
How can I ensure that translations are marked as completed and visible on the frontend?
While you wait for my colleague to take over the ticket, let me try to help you with the issue quickly.
I am not sure what is the issue here, can you explain further? Since what you experience is expected, you need to complete translation job for translations to be applied and visible. You can not semi translate job / page and that it works like that.
There is nothing that explains that to the users and to be honest no reason why it couldn't work like that.
The users are expecting that each individual translation marked as completed would show.. Imagine if a page is 80% completed, that should be considered good enough and maybe the missing translations are not that important and could be completed later, and yet until you marked every single one as completed none of the already completed translations will show.
Here is the usual translation journey
1. They click to translate
2. They translate what they can and mark them as completed, sometimes not all translations are directly available or may need to be reviewed by someone else and are not marked as "Completed"
3. They expect the translated page to show the "Completed" translations, but that's not the case they get the original page until everything is marked as "Completed" but they don't know this because it's not written anywhere, so it's super confusing, they just think translations are not working.
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Hello,
I understand your point but what you're mentioning is not a translation, is a localization and the editors are built to translate the content.
Just to be clear, a translated page is an exact structural copy of the original one with just different text on it (the same amount of texts but translated into the other language).
What you're suggesting is called "Localization" and that is not contemplated in the translation editor.
The current user journey you described is used by most to describe a draft translation: you translate some of the content you can, save them, pause because you may have another task to attend, then return, finish and translate everything else.
If you want to achieve "partial" translation, all you can do is to leave the content as copied from the original text and then save the page, but the job always needs to be 100% completed to be sent to the website as a translated page.
Regards,
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