[Koha] Translations not updating and causing problems

[Aleisha Amohia]

Hi Koha Community

We've noticed a recurring problem across a bunch of our Koha libraries 
in the last couple of months. When a new Koha package is installed, for 
example a minor point upgrade, sometimes our additional translations 
break in a weird way.

Many of our libraries have en-NZ (English New Zealand) and mi-NZ (Māori) 
installed, as well as the default en (English) obviously. They'll 
typically have en-NZ selected as the default language for their OPAC and 
staff interface.

We'll notice the translated templates are broken because we'll search 
for a system preference like OPACUserJS or OPACUserCSS and it can't be 
found in the system preferences. This breaks other displays or features 
across Koha because it can't seem to access system preferences in the 
translated templates.

Usually the fix is some annoying process like:

 1. Uninstall all languages
 2. Restart services
 3. Install chosen languages again
 4. Restart services
 5. Update languages
 6. Restart services

Then our system preferences will show again.

Is there something that we're missing in our deploy process or something 
we need to do to fix this? Translations should auto-update whenever the 
package is installed so I'm not sure why this is happening and would 
really appreciate some advice.

-- 
*Aleisha Amohia (she/her)*
Koha Technical Lead
*Catalyst IT - Expert Open Source Solutions*

*Catalyst.Net Ltd - a Catalyst IT group company*
Tel: +64 4 499 2267 | www.catalyst.net.nz <http://www.catalyst.net.nz>

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