String translation not working

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Tagged: Gravity Forms Multilingual, String Translation

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Last updated by michaelB-11 3 years, 2 months ago.

Assigned support staff: Bobby.

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November 8, 2017 at 2:10 pm
michaelB-11	Hi, I have a big problem with the WPML String Translation. First it started with losing all String Translations. Unfortunately I can't really reproduce what caused this. Maybe because I had to restore a backup via ManageWP, maybe because of a WPML update... I tried to reproduce it with a older (manual) backup of the site, but nothing... Really strange but anyway, I just need to fix this mess. But the big problem is, I now can't even manually save a string in the String Translation. Not for the Widgets and not for the Gravity Forms. I have no idea why. I even tried and created a new Widget. The string then appears in String Translation, but still, I can't save any translation. I have created a copy of the site where you can debug the problem. Thanks a lot in advance and best regards, Michael
November 9, 2017 at 11:49 am #1425784
Bobby Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: America/Los_Angeles (GMT-08:00)	Hello, Your wp_icl_string_translations table was missing the mo_string index. Once this was replaced now the String Translation is working and also the .mo file translations seem to work ok now.
November 10, 2017 at 11:15 am #1426891
michaelB-11	Hi Bobby, Ok, thanks a lot, I would never have found this by myself. Unfortunately only about half of the translations were recovered, but at least I could fix everything now. Now that I know where the problem was, I'll try again to find out what caused this. But for now, this thread can be closed. Thanks again and best regards, Michael