Culture Selection Issue When Duplicating Documents

[martinthogersen]

Which Umbraco version are you using? (Please write the exact version, example: 10.1.0)

14.3.1

Bug summary

When duplicating a document available only in specific cultures, the culture settings should persist in the duplicated document.

Example of the Issue:

1. Original Document:
   Available only in English and Chinese:

2. After Duplication and Publishing:
   When duplicating the document and clicking "Save and Publish," all cultures become selected by default:

Additional Feature Request:

1. Alphabetical Sorting: I suggest sorting the available languages alphabetically in the interface.
2. Manual Sorting: Alternatively, providing an option for manual sorting of the languages would improve usability.

Specifics

No response

Steps to reproduce

See above.

Expected result / actual result

The duplicated document should retain the same cultures as the original (e.g., only English and Chinese in this case). This functionality was working correctly in Umbraco 13.

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This item has been added to our backlog AB#49053

[github-actions]

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[bergmania]

Hi.
Thanks for taking the time to suggest these feature. I'll suggest to do it individually in the discussions instead of on the issue tracker.

The behavior is by design and currently, the newly created duplicate do not - and should not IMO - have any knowledge about that is published (or was at the time of duplication) on the original source.

[martinthogersen]

@bergmania It seems there might be a bug. A similar issue occurs when clicking "Save and Publish" on a page that is already published in some cultures (but not all).

In this scenario, all cultures are selected by default, instead of only the currently published ones. This behavior differs from how it worked in Umbraco 13:

In contrast, using Actions → Publish correctly selects only the current culture:

As a result, users must manually adjust the list of cultures each time they want to publish a new version. This adds unnecessary steps to the publishing workflow.

[NguyenThuyLan]

Hi @martinthogersen , I tested it on v15.2.1 and now it works correctly as the image below. When Save and Publish, it selects the current variants.
But, with some variants that are not created and not in split view, they are still visible in the list for selection, so here we have a PR for fixing it #18312

[martinthogersen]

Great 👍

[nielslyngsoe]

As Lan has highlighted above, this was already partly fixed and the last bits is in place with this PR(#18312) that is merged now, and scheduled for 15.3.

@martinthogersen please let us know about your experience and if there is related cases you think could use some love, thanks in advance.

[martinthogersen]

Thank you. We'll test this soon.