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Missing langcode: how to send an email in the language you want?

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Created on 17 March 2025, 19 days ago

Problem/Motivation

Thanks to the dev done in issue #3047790 📌 Support email translations Needs review , email templates can now be translated.
Easy Email uses the website's current language to select the translated template, which works in almost all cases, such as user-driven events (registration, form submission, etc.).
However, it falls back to the site's default language when the event is not user-driven, like during cron jobs. As a result, the email is no longer received in the user's language.

Steps to reproduce

As a simplified use case, I'm using ECA and cron to send emails: all emails are sent using the website's default language.

Proposed resolution

  • Other Drupal entities have a "langcode" field, but Easy Email does not.
  • The ECA "Create new entity action" has a "Language" field that lists the website's enabled languages, but its value is not used by Easy Email.

Can these two be connected so we can send an email with a specific langcode?
This way, ECA could send the correct email.

Maybe there is a trick to tell Easy Email which language to use?

✨ Feature request
Status

Active

Version

3.0

Component

Code

Created by

🇫🇷France PhilY 🇪🇺🇫🇷 Paris, France

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  • Issue created by @PhilY
  • Comment 19 days ago →
    🇺🇸United States zengenuity

    Are you sending these emails to a user account on the site and want to use the language from their account settings? Does it work if you set the recipient_uid field on the easy email entity?

  • Comment 19 days ago →
    🇫🇷France PhilY 🇪🇺🇫🇷 Paris, France

    Are you sending these emails to a user account on the site and want to use the language from their account settings?
    Yes

    Does it work if you set the recipient_uid field on the easy email entity?
    The email is sent but in the website default language.

  • Comment 18 days ago →
    🇺🇸United States zengenuity

    I think there's an issue here, but the proper fix could be complex. Let's see if there's a workaround to solve your problem first.

    There's an ECA submodule called ECA Language. If you add the "Language: set code" action from that module into your model before you create the Easy Email, does that work? I think this action is supposed to switch the default language that the model is operating under.

  • Comment 18 days ago →
    🇫🇷France PhilY 🇪🇺🇫🇷 Paris, France

    add the "Language: set code"

    Perfect tip, that works!
    Thanks @zengenuity

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