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Last updated by Jasper 1 week, 2 days ago.

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June 13, 2025 at 2:04 pm #17133794

Jasper

Background of the issue:
I made this ticket before. It went up a trier and never got answered but just deleted! I wish you guys would see this issue as a possibility to solve a bug in your system and not disregard it.

I have glossary with 483 items in this glossary. These items are needed because they will be translated.

If I create a new language the glossary fills the translated term with the original terms resulting in wrongly translated pages
I manually deleted the entries in the glossary (hours!) and resend (hundreds!) of posts to retranslation (double € costs)
This solved the problem. But this is not doable for the other 25+ languages I still need to do!

Stupid me: After this I pressed "update existing translations" in the glossary
All the now manually emptied translations now are filled again! with the original terms. Meaning I need to do it again
Also all my translated pages are back to the wrong wording. Meaning I need to resend it?

It's making me mad.

Symptoms:
The glossary fills translated terms with original terms when a new language is created, resulting in incorrect translations. Manually deleting entries and resending posts for retranslation is not sustainable. Pressing 'update existing translations' causes the issue to reoccur.

Questions:
How can I prevent the glossary from filling translated terms with original terms when creating a new language?
Is there a way to update existing translations without reverting to incorrect wording?

June 15, 2025 at 9:28 pm #17136847

Jasper

I will repost this question with better background information.