Translation gone after changing theme

[jerik]

Hi! I am setting up a new webshop, and I installed the new theme for the 1.5 version on my 1.4.7. When I did, the whole translation for the front end dissapeared...

[El Patron]

your new theme must not have come in all the languages that you have enabled on your front office, you will need to update the translations for the new theme and it's modules.

http://screencast.com/t/OVmrB97Sy3SP

[jerik]

But 100% of the front office is gone. Is it really so that the theme cannot borrow the translations that are the same from each other?

 

That's 721 lines to translate - really it would be like reinventing the wheel...

[El Patron]

But 100% of the front office is gone. Is it really so that the theme cannot borrow the translations that are the same from each other?

 

That's 721 lines to translate - really it would be like reinventing the wheel...

 

I hear you pain but I know of know way of migrating one theme translation to another, using sfw. There may be someone in paid modules or developer forum section that knows of a module or hack.

 

I can only suggest a manual process where you have your back office translations open and another window with new template translations, and then copy from old to new translations. I suggest a double espresso.

[jerik]

Haha, I enjoy the humor I found out that in Chrome's "form field memory" all the strings have been saved since I made some changes here and there, so all I have to do now is press twice on the arrow down, and then TAB on every field. That's 1442 arrow strokes and 721 TAB strokes = 2163 strokes... should work out with a cup of hot chocolate

 

Thanks anyway!

[El Patron]

don't forget module/email etc..xlations...pass the coco please..

[jerik]

Thanks for the head up. At least, I found a picture or you to enjoy: http://viliflik.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/hot-chocolate.jpg

[El Patron]

hold the coca..looks as though the ps team/community already thought of this problem(see bottom of the xlation page)...they rock

http://screencast.com/t/bQL6z9Ch4

[jerik]

WOW! Now I drink hot chocolate just to celebrate my fingers relief

[El Patron]

WOW! Now I drink hot chocolate just to celebrate my fingers relief

let us know how it goes, this is very interesting!

[jerik]

With the hot chocolate celebration or the translation? The hot chocolate found its way and was delicious. The translation was successfully copied.

[tonyawards]

I saw that, too. Is that designed for preserving a translation for an upgrade of the same theme as well? Like the basic Prestashop theme 1.4.7.2 to 1.4.7.3, or 1.5.x? Will that work? And how would you sequence it within the same theme to make it happen before the modified translation gets overwritten by the upgrade process?

 

What does this mean, exactly? "* Language files (as indicated at Tools >> Languages >> Edition) must be complete to allow copying of translations?" In a stock Prestashop basic theme, using only English, ther should be no problem, right? The translation mods would come with the language as well if I read it correctly?

[jerik]

I have no idea, but will be happy to be informed too