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I have a multilingual Drupal 7 site with i18n and Entity translation enabled. Node fields translation works perfectly, but there is something wrong with comments. I enabled translation of comment body field. The problem is that comments are only displayed on native language version of the node . When I switch to foreign language, the node fields are translated, but comments are not shown at all (even those, which language matches the foreign language). I checked 'comment' table and it seems to be okay, the language field is populated.

Why are comments hidden on translated versions of nodes? Anyone has a clue?

Thanks for help!

Muhammad Reda
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Alexis
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  • check the view of "Recent comments", enable it, and in filter section, add a language filter with current user language. i didn't try, not sure it works. – hkguile Dec 17 '13 at 07:35
  • It probably will, but it means I need to modify all templates to hide original comments, rewrite output of the Recent comments, so it matches the original markup and design. This sounds a bit complicated. Is there any way to make the original comments list work? – Alexis Dec 17 '13 at 08:45
  • It is a usual skill to overridden the default view by using view module. You can duplicate the "gary" view "Recent comments" to a new view. You may have to add a language filter to show up the translated contents. Just a few clicks. – hkguile Dec 17 '13 at 09:07
  • If above method not work. The worst case you have to find out which sql statement is select out the comments. You have to debug the sql statement and add a condition (see the sql api of drupal 7) with current language. search Global $language how to get the current language code. The node table in database has a language column to identify the language of a node . By default "und" is the lan code for your site's default language. – hkguile Dec 17 '13 at 09:15
  • Did you managed to solve this problem? I have the same issue now. I started to trace where the comments disappearing in the comments module's data chain, but it seems that the comment_get_thread() which queries the comments to the nodes did not give back the comment ids. In this function there is a tagged query: if you remove the 'node_access' tag from the queries in this function, the problem disappers, so i think there is a bad query alteration somewhere in the internationalization module but i didnt had time to find it yet. – Peter Hurtony Oct 31 '15 at 22:18

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This worked for me:

admin/config/regional/i18n/select

And uncheck the "Content to filter by language" options.

IT-Dan
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