[#47458] - Multilingual website with Articles assigned to All Languages: Switching language does not work as expected
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What happened?
You can see the "issue" live on this website:
- go to any concert, for example https://www.themusicvillage.com/en/concerts/2026-03-24-20-30
- switch to another language
- what you see then is not the same Article in the other language (which would simply be https://www.themusicvillage.com/fr/concerts/2026-03-24-20-30, ie same URL but with
/fr/instead of/en/)... but the Blog View of that other language, ie https://www.themusicvillage.com/fr/concerts/
Just a word about the context now:
- there is 1 Category "Concerts", with Language being assigned to
All - same for the Articles within that Category : Language is assigned to
All(indeed concerts don't need to be "translated" because the name of the artists, the photo, the video etc are the same whatever the language. So each Article does not need to be duplicated in 3 languages just to be able to make the Association) - and there is 1 Menu Item, also with Language being assigned to
All
Of course, the behaviour that I would like would be to "stay on the same concert/article" when I switch language:
- without having to create 3000 Menu Items of Type "Single Article" just to be able to make the Association
- or without having to duplicate my current 1000 Articles just to be able to make the Association
Have I missed something? Or do you think of a trick / a workaround to solve this?
I first posted this issue on Mattermost (Town Square) and @Hackwar feeling was that it had to do with the Language Switcher and not with the Router itself.
Txs for your input! ❤️ 💙 💚 🧡
PS : the Multilanguage Status is of course green/OK everywhere (see screenshot in the thread below)
Version
6.0
Expected result
What you see after switching language should be the same Article (which would simply be https://www.themusicvillage.com/fr/concerts/2026-03-24-20-30, ie same URL but with /fr/ instead of /en/)
Actual result
What you see after switching language is the Blog View of that other language, ie https://www.themusicvillage.com/fr/concerts/
System Information
J6.0.3
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- You don't have a Menu item "Default Page" ("Home") for each Language?
- Whats the report of the Module "Multilanguage status"?
Yep, I should have mentioned from the start: for the rest all the multilingual setup is all fine :)
I am pretty sure the behaviour is Joomla's native behaviour (ie not linked to my own setup).
But just to be sure I could install a local fresh website with demo multilingual content to check
Can you update the opening comment with this information? Its easier to understand an issue having relevant informations in one place.
"Concerts" is a menu-item of each Language, they are associated?
That could have been a good catch
- in my initial post, I mention that there is only 1 menu item of type Blog View, with Language assigned to All (that allows to have the same url /__/concerts on all languages)
- but it was worth trying to duplicate that Menu Item in French + Dutch and associate the 3 languages (the downside being that the alias must then be different, like /en/concerts /fr/mes-concerts and /nl/concerten
So I tested it, but we have the same issue : switching language does not lead to the same Article, but to the Blog View
So I tested it, but we have the same issue : switching language does not lead to the same Article, but to the Blog View
Sorry to read this. But its an interesting question ;-)
From a user's point of view: why should someone change the language? Why not hide the language switcher for articles when language is set to "all"?
Hi Christiane,
Txs for your input.
Well the site itself is translated (homepage, contact, faq, ...).
So
- if people "start their journey" in their own language, they won't ever need to switch languages. But they should also be allowed to click on any concert... while staying on their own language
- if people land on the website via a search (on some Artist name for example), chances are great that they are on the right page, but on the wrong language. But if they switch language, they are not anymore on the same Article (but on the corresponding Blog View)
So I tested further: indeed I wanted to be 100% sure that
- the issue was not linked to my own "setup / configuration / ..."
- but that the issue was there even on a totally fresh Joomla website (no extension, no configuration of anything : only the installation of the official Multilingual Sample Data)
See the result on this page:
https://multi.joomla.com/index.php/en/concerts/concert-1
The issue is still there: if you switch to any other language
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you are not on the Article in question, ie Single Article View
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but you are on the corresponding Blog View
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with SEF enabled (like on the URL above)
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and with SEF disabled
With other words:
- it is the Joomla "current behaviour"
- but my feeling is that it is not what the "expected behaviour (and it should be fixed when possible)