Machine translation doesn't re-translate terms after being cleared

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#1

Machine translations will not attempt to re-translate terms that have been cleared in the past. There is no way to flag these terms as needing to be re-translated, keeping them in a state of being untranslated.

We have machine translations enabled for Robloxian High School live place, as well as our MapDev development place. Happens in both places.

This has been happening since machine translations were introduced. It is actively preventing us from being fully localized in some languages, terms are entirely unable to be translated.

Repro:

  1. Upload an empty localization sheet to your game.
  2. Enable machine translations for a single language.
  3. Delete some terms completely inside of the translation portal.
  4. Re-upload your original sheet
    Those terms that were translated before will be flagged as “cleared” and not translate again.
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#2

Thanks for reporting. Our localization systems do not allow automatic translation for any entries that have manual action taken on them. We do this for your content’s safety. We understand that this is limiting and are currently working on additional options to enable this functionality in the future.

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#3

Is there any timeline for this fix? Or just a way to clear this flag? Having localization entries sitting around that cannot be translated at all is not the best situation to have.