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How to track changes in the Default Reference Language

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You can mark the strings edited in the Default Reference Language to track them in the other languages in multiple ways, described below.

Enable the option Mark strings as fuzzy in other languages

If you want the translations in the target languages of a project to be marked as fuzzy when a string in the Default Reference Language is changed in the user interface, you can enable the option Mark strings as fuzzy in other languages in the project's settings.

Mark strings as fuzzy in other languages (Project settings) - POEditor translation platform

The option is available in the settings of any project which has a DRL set. You can see it if you click on Edit in the project's General settings, and it applies to both to the case when a user edits a translation in the language page of the DRL, as well as when a user edits a DRL string in the Terms page.

Update the language using the import functionality

The import functionality (both the one in the project page, and the ones in the translation pages) features a checkbox when you import translations, mark corresponding translations from the other languages as fuzzy for the updated values. Check this box to mark the translations in the other languages as fuzzy, so translators know they need to be revised.

The steps are described in more detail here.

Update the language using webhooks

When you create a webhook with the operations Import translations or Import terms and translations, there are two advanced options you can choose from: Overwrite translations and Mark corresponding translations from the other languages as fuzzy for the updated values.

Fuzzy trigger (Webhooks page) - POEditor translation management software

If you check Overwrite translations, you can then also check the option Mark corresponding translations from the other languages as fuzzy for the updated values so project members are aware what strings need to be revised in the target languages after you update the source language.

Update individual strings in Terms

Go to Terms, search for the string ID corresponding to the value to be changed in the Reference Language, then hover your mouse over it. Click the T icon (translations) and edit the value in the Reference Language. Then, click on the string ID and then on Save. (Don't change the label, and leave the box under it that says Set all translations as fuzzy checked.) This will put a fuzzy flag on the translations in all the languages.

Edit Term (Terms page) - POEditor localization platform

Update the language using the API

You can use the Fuzzy flag with the API as well, by setting the fuzzy_trigger to 1, as stated here.

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