Unpublish all language instances of an entity

Created on 19 January 2018, almost 7 years ago

Updated 18 April 2024, 8 months ago

Our project contains 2 languages, german and english. There is a vocabulary "Channel". We now would like to have a channel term that has a translation but also both language instances should be unpublished.

When trying to unpublish the translated term the status field is disabled with a description showing: "Only this translation is published. You must publish at least one more translation to unpublish this one.".
Also in code there is a comment saying: "If there is only one published translation we cannot unpublish it, since there would be nothing left to display."

Can anyone explain the deeper reasons for this to me? I don't understand why one would not want to unpublish all language instances of a given term.

Common Use Case: An editor wants to unpublish all translations of a taxonomy term so that the term is no longer visible to anonymous traffic for any language.
This use case can occur for any non-node entity type, for example: taxonomy_term, media, block_content, menu link, group → . Core handles nodes the way that you would expect - the translation status is inherited from the entity status.

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Needs work

Version

11.0 🔥

Component

Content translation →

Last updated 2 days ago

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🇩🇪Germany lucastockmann

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Comment 8 months ago →
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I have ran into this multiple times as well.
Common Use Case: An editor wants to unpublish all translations of a node so that the page is no longer visible to anonymous traffic for any language.

Can a core maintainer weigh in on the logic behind this?
Form description: "Only this translation is published. You must publish at least one more translation to unpublish this one."
Code comment in "core/modules/content_translation/src/ContentTranslationHandler.php":

// If there is only one published translation we cannot unpublish it, // since there would be nothing left to display.
- "nothing left to display": that is the goal for the use case mentioned above. Users that can view unpublished content will still be able to view it.
Comment 8 months ago →
🇺🇸United States recrit
Comment 8 months ago →
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