When translating -for example- modules in the prestashop backend, you might find a lot of translations missing after you have saved your work. And with missing I don't mean not translated, I mean empty, not visible, gone.
The default behaviour for text that does not have a translation in Prestashop is to show the original english text. Now let's say you have finished translating 1 module to German. Lots of other modules don't have German translations, so the translation fields will be empty. What happens next is that Prestashop saves ALL strings, even the empty ones. So now a not-yet-translated string translates to '', rendering it invisible.
This behaviour has been present in prestashop since the early versions and has not been addressed in the newest version 1.6 .
When you don't want to go about modifying prestashop's core files, there are esentially 2 options to avoid this problem:
- when you start translating, translate everying that is not yet translated. This can be a LOT of work.
- make use of my inline translate module, which will allow you to translate everything directly from the frontend. The module can be found in Prestashop's Addon store : inline translation module
Feb 03, 2015