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Hi,

I've looked hard on the forums, maybe not hard enough (I don't know...)

But we're looking for a way to input a product in English in the admin panel and then have it show on the site but to display the product description in English still even if a user selects another language.

The reason behind this is that a foreign user can use his/her language to navigate the site but then just read the product description in English. We don't want to have to translate each product description basically.

Is this possible? If so, how can we do this?

Cheers :)

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I think the issue is that PrestaShop does not show the main language productdescription when the productdescription in any additional language is not added.
You will have to add any additional product description in any additional language you have in your shop..., a lot of work ahead.

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Yes, menus is own for each language.

For example, currently I have 3 languages in the shop and need to setup another 2 in near future and may be 3 more in the next 3 month. All frontend menus are individual for each language, for backend I use only one language.

So, now for each new product I need to manually copy it's main description (in english) to each language. If products are similar, I can try to duplicate product and change it description on each language, however copy/paste usually is faster.

As I did not have many products, it take only several days to copy/paste descriptions to all languages. However, if I need to import about 1000 products - probably I will make this copy/paste outside of Presta, when preparing input files.

So, duplicate main description to all languages by default - if other languages was not filled, will be very good feature.

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  • 10 months later...

Hi,
i have create a query to copy all the product descriptions in other languages, it isn't optimized at all, as I'm not a programmer, but it works. If anyone is interested I can put the query here, maybe it will be possible create a specific module and have some suggestions from experts.

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