Changing language during recurrence creation causes confusion

[Lorraine]

I haven’t tried to reproduce this on the URL provided, but I found that during the creation of a series of recurring events if you change to a different language, events not yet created ‘switch’ to the new language. If needs be I can try to recreate this.
Sorry – I am not trying to beat you over the head, it’s a complex thing to implement and I like the product. Just that the message saying you can safely navigate away isn’t quite true I don’t think?

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Lorraine and welcome back!

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

I found that during the creation of a series of recurring events if you change to a different language, events not yet created ‘switch’ to the new language.

I totally understand where you are coming from. In fact, based on experience with my clients, the language switching aspect of WPML can create confusion even outside of our plugins.

I was actually unaware of that behaviour.

Because of that, I will amend the WPML article to add that very point in: https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/creating-translations-for-events-using-wpml/

Just that the message saying you can safely navigate away isn’t quite true I don’t think?

That message is not WPML specific, but it is produced by the recurring events (event series) module.

It is actually accurate, because you can navigate away. But it is not complete.
It should also say that you cannot switch languages in WPML until the events have been created.

I have created a ticket for that second purpose, but it might take a while before it gets integrated.
But of course, you will be notified as soon as it is.

Best regards,

Geoff B.

 

[Lorraine]

Totally agree Geoff, WPML can be quite confusing. It’s just an anomaly, and I’m not at all surprised that one wasn’t captured! If there’s something that can be broken you can bet I’ll find it – it’s a special talent of mine.
Please feel free to close the ticket.

[Geoff B.]

Good afternoon Lorraine,

We totally appreciate your findings!

To be on the safe side, I did run this by our Dev. Apparently,  WPML uses a global on a per-request basis to define what is the current language makes it very susceptible to that… sadly so.

So in short, we will amend the message accordingly and the documentation has already been amended (thanks to you).

But, aside from that, it looks like we are stuck with that aspect of WPML 🙁

You are welcome back in our support forums any time 🙂

For now, I am going to close this thread.

Have a great week!

Geoff B.

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