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Hi Aki. 

Your assumption is right, it is related to the inheritance of attribute enrichments across languages. More specifically,

If "Do not copy field content when adding new language on product" is empty, then localizing to any of the given sublanguages will inherit the enrichments of all product fields and system fields from the default language regardless of the advanced field settings. Thus, if an attribute is defined as being different across languages then it would still inherit when localizing the product to sublanguages. 

If "Do not copy field content when adding new language on product" is checked, then the advanced field settings will control the inheritance behavior. More specifically, product enrichments in attributes (product fields/system fields) that are different across languages will NOT automatically inherit to sublangauges upon localization. On the other hand attributes that are the same across languages will inherit the enrichments from the default langauge. 

in relation to your last point, all field content should be inherited if the checkbox is empty regardless of the advanced field settings when adding localizing a product to sublanguages. If that is not the case please feel free to sent an example my way. 

Hi Jonas,

Thanks for the clarification. 

In a solution where the checkbox is not cheked I created a product. Then added a language by clicking on a language flag. But no values are copied to the new langage. Perhaps I am missunderstanding the whole thing. :) 

Jonas,do you have any input on my latest post. Have I missunderstood what "adding new language on product" is?

Regards / Aki

Hi Aki! Also ran into this today. Did you ever find out? Feel like I'm missing something. 

Hi Anouk,

In that project we created a function that automatically creates language versions for all languages regardless if the flags are active or not in PIM. And copies relevant data to the language versions. 

In another PIM project, if I recall correctly, it worked as excepted. I can check that and come back with an update. 

Regards / Aki

Hi Aki, 

If you could, that would be great. Tried on a few different projects and all seem to not copy any content regardless of this setting being on of off when adding a new language to a product. 

Hi Aki.

Somehow it didn't occur to me to give it a name and save it... Sorry to waste your time with that, but your screen capture did help me out.

Thanks so much!

Kind regards, 
Anouk

No problem. Glad to be of help. 

Regards / Aki