Adding translations to already existing attributions

[weitubin]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. In many cases, it seems that attributions were made before a translation was entered. These will of course appear empty in the list of existing attributions. However, if a translation is added to the corresponding lines later, it does not appear to be added to the already existing attribution.

Describe the solution you'd like In some cases the analysis is clearer and simpler than the translation. Here it is understandable that first an attribution is created and later a translation is added. Even if I don't know if this would be possible, it would of course be nice if the attributions of the corresponding line were linked to the translation added later ;-).

Describe alternatives you've considered An alternative would of course be to disable attributions before entering a translation. However, the question here is whether this is desirable for the workflow. Everyone probably has his own approach here.

[cwittern]

I have thought about that question as well. It should be possible to periodically check for new translations and add them to the attribution. One problem here might be a case where multiple translations are available and one has to be selected.

[weitubin]

I have a quick question about this: is it even possible to create attributions without creating a translation? If this is not possible, each attribution as described above is associated with an empty translation file, isn't it? Could the subsequent filling of the empty translation within the list of attributions not be fed by the translation to which the attribution is necessarily linked? That was just a probably rather half-baked idea that went through my mind :-).

[cwittern]

Just now seeing this question. What happens at the moment is as follows:

• When creating a new attribution, HXWD looks in the left column of the translations and picks up the translation if there is one.
• This translation is copied over to the attribution and stays there, even if the original is changed later.
• If there is no translation in the left column, the attribution will have no translation, again it will not pick up the translation if one is added later.