By keesje on

I'm developing a multilangual site in Drupal 6 with i18n.module.
In the "Translate" tab of a node I'm missing the "Select node" operation that is available in Drupal 5 + i18n.module.

Am I missing some stupid config option? or is this operation simply gone?

I can't imagine I'm the only one needing this badly!

The only related post I found:
http://drupal.org/node/142280

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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GN commented

I also ran into this problem today after importing a bunch of bilingual content items from another CMS into Drupal 6 with node_import module, and then unsuccessfully looking for the "Select node" button that I remember was available in D5. It seems that this option was intentionally removed from the D6 interface to prevent some issues with ill-defined translation sets...
Fortunately, I'm able to do the job by manually editing the 'tnid' field in the 'node' table.

http://api.drupal.org/api/file/modules/translation/translation.module
The node table stores the values used by this module:
- 'tnid' is the translation set id, which equals the node id of the source post.
- 'translate' is a flag, either indicating that the translation is up to date (0) or needs to be updated (1).

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keesje commented

Thanks for the info, glad I'm not the only one missing this feature.

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mrfelton commented

I'm really missing this feature too. Is there another way to accomplish the same thing? I have a bunch of existing nodes that I want to associate to other nodes as translations and really dont want to have to recreate them all from scratch!

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keesje commented

Please read above post, altering DBS table is the only way AFAIK.

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luco commented

frankly, developers need a reality check every now and then.

why remove such an important feature and let it be set only via phpMyAdmin?

this is the kind of action that pretty much defeats the purpose of ever having a CMS in the first place. I mean, if I could write PHP so well I wouldn't look for a CMS in the first place, right?

come on guys, we need this feature back. if it was removed to be replaced by something better in the future, that's ok - just let us know, alright?

cheers,
Luciano

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mediamash commented

has this been solved yet?

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GN commented

Yes, now it's available in Drupal 6, too.