I updated our theme Impulse from version 7.1 to 7.2. Most translations are now gone, albeit not all of them. Navigation, pages and product content are still there. How can the new version be missing the translations as the base language is still available to all elements? Since the reference to the …

@elenalauder @Ogenstad I think I might have a short term fix for you to help copy the translations from the old theme to the new theme, based on the translations CSV. You’ll need the CSV for both the old theme, with its translations in place, and the new one, without translations. Languages > Setti…

Hello Richbrown_staff, Thanks for the motivation to help me and thanks for the efforts. I have found out the problem myself. I had this before, the formula does not match my german interface. The formula must be language specific for it to work. If someone also has the same problem, here is the…

I never knew Google Sheets did formulas in different languages - thanks for sharing! So glad it worked for you. We’ll definitely look to integrate it in natively at some point in the future. Best wishes, Rich

This is the real only solution? Is not sustainable to be downloading, making vlookups and re-uploading this everytime a theme is updated. Shopify would need to bring a better solution for this.

HI @lasrv - every time you update your theme, or change your theme? Can you let me know the workflow you follow where you’re finding that the ONLINE_STORE_THEME field ids are regularly changing?

I’ve now come to the point where I’m going to try and upgrade our theme. Appart from language translatations, each product image is also translated (both from a ALT-perspective but also from a file perspective). Do I have to reuppload and remap thousands of images? Being an IT-architect of enterpr…

Why do we only want to work with ONLINE_STORE_THEME, what about all COLLECTION and PRODUCT translations?

Translations for all resource types (see list ) except ONLINE_STORE_THEME are not unique to the theme and are saved to our database via the Translations API, so persist regardless of theme. Change your theme and your COLLECTION and PRODUCT translations will stay there. As each theme is different, thi…

Seems to be working although the script needs to be ran per language, i.e. I had to make two sheets per language to get it all sorted. Still it’s better than doing each manually. Now there’s just 4000 images and 4000 ALT-texts that need to be updated manually, one-by-one.

Thank you. This worked like a charm. However, I do have some Ecomposer sections in my theme that I built and its translations are not copying over to the new theme. I have tried to search those texts within the CSVs but it seems like the translations for the Ecomposer pages arent even part of the ex…

Why did my theme update erase most translations?

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Hi @Ogenstad , I’ll send you a DM

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Why did my theme update erase most translations?

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