Background of the issue:
I am working on a site under development and trying to change the translation of the title tag. I changed the title tag of the original language (English) and want to translate this on the Dutch page.
Symptoms:
When I open the translated page, parts that are showing as translated on the front are not translated anymore.
Questions:
Why are parts of the translation showing as empty when they were previously translated?
In my opinion it should not happen that the content has to be retranslated if we change something in the default language. We already spend a lot of time on translating it and now after reopening the translation it looks like we have to translate it again, i'm really disappointed about this as we almost wanted to make the website live but now it's going to take much time again.
If we click the empty items the default language text is copied in the translated item but in the default language not in the translated language.
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So this means the translations don't repopulate when we click them?
I did switch of "Translate all content automatically when the editor opens" because the automatic translation was working in the empty fields and the translation which is on the front page is much better.
if you have the Translated Everything mode it will take care of this for you, however, yes I can definitely understand how this can be disappointing, unfortunately it is expected behavior when there is a change in the structure or content of a paragraph/line for it to be prompted for an update.
Typically a small change will not trigger this but a change that would require retranslation of the specific content would.
IF possible please share with me the original string/paragraph vs the edited/new one.
The text we started this topic for we did the translation already with copy and paste now. However we have this problem with all post we open.
Attached a translation of which we opened and saved the translation first, so it was 100% translated. Than we changed a link in the default language saved it went back to the translation and a part which we did not touch is not translated anymore. This is happing with many translations we open.
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I can confirm that after adding the URL a re translation trigger is expected behavior.
What would be not expected is that the whole page or more content not edited is now requiring a re translation.
I tested with the following text by adding a URL to the text ' pure joints' only that string was triggered for re translation and the rest remained unchanged.
"the cannabis culture in America is different in that they do not use tobacco and prefer to smoke pure joints of dried cannabis"
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I just selected a post just now this one hidden link.
I changed only the meta description. With the Dutch translation everything went fine however in the Spanish translation there is a small part that I didn't touch and i had to translate again you can see it here: hidden link at the end of the video.
But this is just one post which went pretty well. This is happing with a lot of posts. I can record more post for you if you want?
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the dutch url was translated but with opening the translation it is empty and the url has to be translated again: hidden link
You can see it around minute 3:34.
This is also the reason I don't set it to automatic translation as what happens is that the link is changing in that case automatically which you almost don't notice.
Here i have a better example of this text: hidden link
The video link from youtube was not working so i fixed this in the default language. So i only touched the video link. The Dutch text was 100% translated before i started. After i changed the video link look how much text is missing from the Dutch translation only 36% is translated.
Thank you, I watched the video --- question: did you recently adjust the setting in WPML → Settings and scroll down to Translated documents options.
Under Page URL, choose the Translate option and save.
If yes, that is what is happening, when a setting has been altered it will not take effect until after a page or post is updated next then it will take effect.
There is chance that setting was off before, at some point then activated and now you are updating pages and it triggers this. (setting is deactivated by default and set to use the Title of the translation)
For Video #2 --- was all that content already translated? If I take a look at the page right now am I able to review the existing translation or did you finish it again? This behavior needs to be examined further, the behavior from video #1 seems like it's caused from that WPML Settings change.
