When translating a product it doesn't automatically creates slug from the title

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Last updated by Yvette 4 years, 4 months ago.

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January 18, 2021 at 1:01 pm #7869325
ioannisB-7	I am trying to: Translate a product from Greek to English through WooCommerce Multilingual Link to a page where the issue can be seen: hidden link I expected to see: The new slug created automatically from the new title Instead, I got: In the WooCommerce Multilingual it asks me to translate the slug. (I have the auto slug creation enabled)
January 19, 2021 at 11:40 am #7877391
Sumit Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)	Hi, Thank you for contacting the support forum. Before your ticket is assigned to one of my colleagues, please allow me to walk you through some initial debugging steps. This will help speed up the support process. The setting in WPML for Page URL creation does not affect the product translation. It is from WooCommerce Multilingual and slug field as always visible. However, you don't need to put the value there, you can skip that field and translate other fields. WooCommerce multilingual automatically fill the slug fields based on the title entered by you. Please let me know if this works for you. Thanks
January 19, 2021 at 1:19 pm #7878215
ioannisB-7	If I leave this field unchanged then it keeps the same product slug as the default language. You can see en example at the pictures.
January 19, 2021 at 10:10 pm #7882021
Yvette Supporter Languages: English (English ) Spanish (Español ) Timezone: Europe/Paris (GMT+02:00)	How are you creating the translation? Which editor are you using? Here is a screencast from my test system that shows how ignoring the slug field and only translating the product title allows the system to use the title as the slug. hidden link
January 20, 2021 at 6:45 am #7883823
ioannisB-7	I am using the new wpm translation editor where it is not working. It is already pre-filled with the original slug and won't let you to leave it empty. You have to fix this. Now that I switched to the classic wpml translator it works.
January 20, 2021 at 10:33 am #7885627
Yvette Supporter Languages: English (English ) Spanish (Español ) Timezone: Europe/Paris (GMT+02:00)	I see. you are given the chance to translate the slug there and, yes, you are not able to complete the translation if there are any "blanks". I am not sure if this is something that will be "fixed" but I will bring it to the attention of the development team. I understand, for now, that overwriting the slug with the translated post title in the ATE is not a workable solution for you and that you will instead use the CTE. Is this correct?
January 20, 2021 at 1:32 pm #7887705
ioannisB-7	Yes that's correct. There is not a chance for my client to do this for every product!
January 21, 2021 at 2:35 pm #7897797
Yvette Supporter Languages: English (English ) Spanish (Español ) Timezone: Europe/Paris (GMT+02:00)	This is now escalated to our 2nd tier group for more work/investigation.