trasnslation issues with adminAPI

Technical Q&A

Topic summary

Problem: Menu translations aren’t appearing on the storefront despite using the Shopify Admin GraphQL API to register them.

Details:

  • Using Admin API (2024-07) with translatableResources (resourceType: ONLINE_STORE_MENU) and translationsRegister mutation.
  • Registration completes without errors; the menu item shows as correctly registered for translation (screenshot provided).
  • Changing the storefront language does not update the menu text.
  • Tested on both Focal and Dawn themes, suggesting the issue is not theme-specific.

Context:

  • translatableResources is used to fetch items that support translation.
  • translationsRegister is used to submit translations for those resources.

Status:

  • No resolution yet; the user seeks guidance on what step might be missing or why the menu doesn’t reflect the registered translations.
  • No conflicting viewpoints; no code snippets provided beyond a documentation link and a screenshot.
Summarized with AI on December 19. AI used: gpt-5.
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hey,
I’m trying to translate my shop via using the admin API.

mostly every thing works fine, but I am struggling with the menu.

as you can see in the Docu TranslatableResources the ONLINE_STORE_MENU is a resource you can fetch. also the registration via translationsRegister mutation works on paper. I got no errors back, and when checking the Menu item the registration was correct.

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but the menu isn’t changing when changing the language. Not sure what I am missng?

btw. I got this on Focal as well as on Dawn theme.

thx for your help!