[Resolved] You can only edit translations assigned to you.

Hello,

Which was the last version of WPML running on your site before running the update?

With WPML for at least 5 years or even longer only admins and translation managers can access any translation, duplicate content and create translation jobs for all non-admin users who are assigned as translators.

Users will be by default able to run such tasks if they have an admin user role. Users who are non-admins can get assigned as translation managers and then should be able to use WPML Translation Editor as if they were admins.

https://wpml.org/documentation/translating-your-contents/working-with-translation-managers/#setting-up-a-translation-manager

Also, if a translation job is already assigned to one translator it would be expected that another translator will not be able to access this job. A translator can resign from a job to make it available for other translators in the translation queue.

https://wpml.org/documentation/translating-your-contents/how-to-set-up-local-translators-and-language-pairs/

Best regards
Andreas

We would need to find a programmatical solution in this case.

I will try to find a workaround for this and then reach out to you again.

Please take kindly note, that I am assisting in this case voluntarily, and our supporters are not obligated to provide such custom code solutions and can only support WPML according to its provided options and functionality.

No worries, no fee is necessary 🙂

Please take a backup of your site and database first.

Now, I am not aware which user roles you need to get adjusted, but I created a snippet that will add the capability to manage translations via Translation Management to any user who does not have the admin or subscriber role.

function wpml_custom_assign_capability() {
    // Get all users
    $users = get_users();

    foreach ( $users as $user ) {
        // Apply rule only for users that are not admins or subscribers
        if ( ! in_array( 'subscriber', $user->roles ) && ! in_array( 'admin', $user->roles ) ) {
            // Verify if the capability is already assigned to each user
            if ( ! user_can( $user, 'wpml_manage_translation_management' ) ) {
                // Assign the capability to each user
                $user->add_cap( 'wpml_manage_translation_management' );
            }
        }
    }
}
add_action( 'init', 'wpml_custom_assign_capability' );

This way users can access WPML > Translation Management and create jobs for themselves which they can then translate or duplicate.

There will be no need to assign translator roles or language pairs for those users, as they will be translation managers.

Take note, that those translation managers will not show up inside the list at WPML > Translation Management > Translators, as they were created programmatically.

If you are looking for more functionality let me know, but I am afraid if we give the users similar rights as admin users we might need to add them the manage_options capability and this might not be in your interest.

It might be, because there is already a job assigned to another translator.

Please revise WPML > Translation Management > Jobs. You can cancel those jobs there or ask the assigned translator to resign from the job.

Thank you for the provided information.

We need to investigate this issue further. Please take kindly note, that we only handle one issue per ticket.

I have opened a new ticket for the "jobs not found" issue and will reply there shortly.