When translating articles and sections, mobile users are required to work in a single session. In contrast, desktop users can work on a translation on multiple sessions thanks to the work being auto-saved before publishing.

This ticket proposes to create the basic support for working on a translaiton in multiple sessions. This epic ticket covers auto-saving, warning and continuing an existing translation (sub-tickets linked below):

Auto-saving process (T322517)

• Saving can be triggered after users apply a translation for a sentence (using the apply button or saving an edit).
• No feedback or indication is provided to communicate saving is in-progress for now.
• Publishing a translation makes it change their status from in-progress to published.

Leaving a translation (T322518)

Currently, trying to leave a translation shows always a warning (T270484). This will change:

• Trying to leave a translation where there are changes pending to be saved should show an alert warning the user that changes may get lost.
• Trying to leave when changes are saved, or when there is no change made yet, should just return to the dashboard without warning.

Continuing translations (T322521)

• Starting a translation for an article/section for which an in-progress, will result in continuing the translation.
• Starting a translation for an article/section for which an in-progress article does not exist, was removed by the user, or it has been published, will result on a new translation (not continuing a previous draft). This is important to prevent issues such as the ones captured in T192065.

Follow-ups

Note that listing the in-progress translations is not part of the scope of this ticket. Thus, continuing an existing translaiton will be performed by searching for the same content to translate, and there won't be yet a control to discard an in-progress translation. Follow-up tickets will provide options to view in-progress translations (T260165), published ones (T260166) and switch between these views (T319181).

Scenario for QA testing

With the above, the following scenario should work as described:

1. Start a translation from English to Igbo for "Paneer".
2. Edit the translation for a sentence and apply the proposed translation for the next one.
3. Leave the translation editor and return to the dashboard.
4. Depending on how the previous step was performed, a warning may appear to indicate that saving has not complete. Wait and try again if that is the case.
5. Start again a translation from English to Igbo for "Paneer"
6. The translation editor loads with the previously translated sentences present.
7. Publish the translation in the sandbox.
8. Start again a translation from English to Igbo for "Paneer"
9. The translation editor loads without any previous translations.