"Shared across all languages" popover to edit is annoying

[alandraper]

Which Umbraco version are you using? (Please write the exact version, example: 10.1.0)

11.4.2

Bug summary

The "Shared across all languages" popover is very annoying for our editors. A more subtle warning that doesn't interrupt workflow would be more useful.

Specifics

No response

Steps to reproduce

Create a site with multiple variants; try to edit a value.

Expected result / actual result

Don't want to have to click a button before toggling a value.

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[fredrikbazooka]

I also wish this could be changed so that you could disable the warning, och "snooze" the warning, or make it less annoying.

When we as developers choose to create a property that is shared across languages - it's for a very good reason, and we deliberately want the data structure to be this way. And this makes the everyday editing experience for our editors suffer to have to klick this button all the time.

For example, here are some examples of properties that we want to share for all languages;

• Images. Consider a teaser with text and a link. The text is different for the languages but the image is the same.
• Properties that are settings like, colors, heading size. tags.
• Properties that are settings like SEO priority, change frequency, sharing image.
• Properties that are references to other pages.
• Properties that are references to entities in another system for integration, like a product-id.

And the list goes on...

I don't see the point of this warning at all. And if there is a point to the warning it's because someone did a bad job at designing or explaining how to use the content types.

Regards
Fredrik

[andr317c]

Hey!
This sounds more like a feature request so I will convert this to one! 😄

[alandraper]

Well if you heard our editors complaining, you'd think otherwise, but ok.

[readingdancer]

I agree this is a very annoying "feature" and I have multiple clients complaining about it.

There is also a forum thread about this issue:

https://our.umbraco.com/forum/using-umbraco-and-getting-started/111577-is-it-possible-to-disable-the-shared-across-alla-languages-warning#comment-348913