Copy/Duplicate Products from secondary Language to third Language

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Last updated by Mohamed Sayed 3 years, 10 months ago.

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February 22, 2021 at 3:28 pm #8146363
clemensM-3	I am setting up an Onlineshop with around 100 products. My default language is English. My second language is German and third is Swiss-German. I did translate all the products from English to German. Now the products for Swiss-German will be identical to German, except currency (and price). I can only find an option to duplicate products from default language (WPML-> Translation Management). How can I duplicate German product-translations to Swiss-German translation?
February 23, 2021 at 12:27 pm #8153713
Mohamed Sayed	Hi @clemensM-3, Thanks for contacting WPML support. I will be happy to help you today. To achieve that, please try the following steps: 1- Go to WPML > Translation Management 2- Use the search filter to select the products translated in German only as shown here https://prnt.sc/104s4yr 3- Select all products you want to duplicate from German to the new language https://prnt.sc/104s65w 4- In the "Select translation options" section, set the English language to "Do nothing" and the Swiss-German" language to "Duplicate content" https://prnt.sc/104s7oj then click the duplicate button. Please let me know if that helps! Regards, Mohamed
February 24, 2021 at 1:27 pm #8163815
clemensM-3	Hi Mohamed, Thank you very much for the quick and clear explanation. Duplication of products works perfectly fine like this. About Copy - How can I copy products from German to Swiss-German?
February 28, 2021 at 7:25 am #8189509
Mohamed Sayed	Hi @clemensm-3, Can you please explain what do you mean by "Copy"? Since we don't have that option I need more details about what are you trying to achieve so I can check if it's possible. Regards, Mohamed
February 28, 2021 at 9:10 am #8189773
clemensM-3	When I duplicate Products, they are linked. So if I change original, the duplicate changes as well. I would like to copy it, so that it is NOT linked afterwards. This is possible for pages, but not for products? Let me explain to you, why this is necessary. Maybe you see another way to solve the issue: I built the website in English. From there I translated all pages to Swiss-German and duplicated them to German. Therefore I would always have to make Changes in German-speaking-Areas in Swiss-German Dashboard. I also tried to translate my products to Swiss-German. Unfortunately the automatic translation did not work for Swiss-German (custom language) although I did a "Language Mapping" to German. So I did the translations of products to German. So at the moment I have a mix-up between Swiss-German and German Duplicates. Therefore I would like to copy the German products to Swiss-German and then make product Duplicates of Swiss-German to German language. That way I would only need to make changes in Swiss-German and never in German. Hope you understand my problem and maybe you see any other solution?
March 3, 2021 at 12:02 pm #8217109
Mohamed Sayed	Hi @clemensm-3, Sorry for the late reply. If the duplicate option doesn't help to achieve that, I suggest using the WP All Import plugin with the WPML All Import addon to import the products from the German language. You can follow the documentation here: https://wpml.org/documentation/related-projects/wpml-all-import-plugin-website-import-with-wpml/ Please also be noted that unfortunately, there are no other options with WPML that can help to copy those products between secondary languages at the moment. Regards, Mohamed