I have checked this in
Sitecore 8.1 and 8.2. Sitecore support team accepted it as a bug.
Here is the bug details:
If you have any item with language fallback and now if you create a clone of this item then you will not get language fallback on clone
item. Instead of that you will get language version on clone item.
Here are steps to reproduce
it
- Let’s suppose you have 3 languages – English, French and German.
- Both French and German languages are fallback to English.
- Create an item where French is fallback to English and German have 2 versions as
 |
| Original Item with language fallback |
- Now create a clone of this item as
 |
| Clone item with language versions |
- As you can notice from image, French is not fallback to English on cloned item, instead an actual French version of the item is created.
- Also we have 2 versions of German in original item but in clone item, only a single German version is created. This single version of cloned German is pointing to latest version of Original German item i.e. version 2.
- You can verify this from “Create from” label and “Advanced/Source” field as highlighted in above image. As per Sitecore this “Single German Version” is expected behavior but French fallback Vs its version is a bug.
Sitecore had provided a
patch for this bug for one of our project in Sitecore 8.1. But when I tested it
in Sitecore 8.2, I am able to reproduce this.
Those who have multi lingual
site, clone and fallback items should check this in their environment.
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you care for any related Sitecore project.
