# Linked Documents Localization

**URL:** <https://community.prismic.io/t/linked-documents-localization/5023>\
**Category:** Developing with Prismic\
**Tags:** graphql\
**Created:** [April 19, 2021, 10:58pm UTC](https://community.prismic.io/t/linked-documents-localization/5023 "2021-04-19T22:58:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![purchasing](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.prismic.io/purchasing/32/1979_2.png) [@purchasing](https://community.prismic.io/u/purchasing)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 10:58pm UTC](https://community.prismic.io/t/linked-documents-localization/5023/1 "2021-04-19T22:58:35Z")

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Hello Prismic Team,

@antoine.gilbert informed me to post here for technical issues. I'm in the process of pulling in our translations through Prismic's GraphQL API. I'm noticing for any of our documents that have linked content, the language is not getting picked up?

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/prismic/original/2X/9/99046cf4c53cacddffb0774247298f0009a79597.png)

As you can see for this document, I set the language to zh-ns and that properly gets translated in the response for the header, but when I go to the linked document, it reverts back to en-us. You can also see I print out the language on the different levels and there's a discrepancy.

I can also confirm that all the linked documents are translated. There doesn't appear to be any documentation on how to handle this situation of pulling translations of linked documents.

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**Author:** ![Pau](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.prismic.io/pau/32/5422_2.png) [@Pau](https://community.prismic.io/u/Pau)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 12:17am UTC](https://community.prismic.io/t/linked-documents-localization/5023/2 "2021-04-20T00:17:37Z")

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Hey @purchasing, You've come to the right place to ask any questions; welcome!

I want to run a test query on my end before scaling this to the dev team. Could you please share with me the URL of your repository? You can send it to me via dm if you prefer.

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**Author:** ![Pau](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.prismic.io/pau/32/5422_2.png) [@Pau](https://community.prismic.io/u/Pau)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2021, 3:42pm UTC](https://community.prismic.io/t/linked-documents-localization/5023/4 "2021-05-10T15:42:15Z")

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closed on May 10, 2021, 3:42pm UTC, flag & select 'Something Else' to reopen.

The conversation for this use case has continued in a direct message.

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**Author:** ![system](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.prismic.io/system/32/1746_2.png) [@system](https://community.prismic.io/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 4:21pm UTC](https://community.prismic.io/t/linked-documents-localization/5023/5 "2021-12-09T16:21:52Z")

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Opened on December 9, 2021, 4:21pm UTC



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**Author:** ![jan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@jan1](https://community.prismic.io/u/jan1)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2022, 1:25pm UTC](https://community.prismic.io/t/linked-documents-localization/5023/6 "2022-03-30T13:25:29Z")

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Hey @Pau I'm having the same issue. What was the solution?  
Can the solution be posted here? It might help other people (like me) too.

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**Author:** ![Pau](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.prismic.io/pau/32/5422_2.png) [@Pau](https://community.prismic.io/u/Pau)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2022, 11:20pm UTC](https://community.prismic.io/t/linked-documents-localization/5023/8 "2022-03-30T23:20:05Z")

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Hello @jan1, thanks for reaching out!  
The solution for this is to use the Bulk Actions feature to copy all the documents you need to another locale:

> **[Make Changes in Bulk](https://prismic.io/docs/core-concepts/bulk-actions#copy-to-another-locale)**
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> Prismic's bulk actions allow you to perform a selected task on multiple documents at the same time. Here are the options.

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**Author:** ![jan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@jan1](https://community.prismic.io/u/jan1)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 8:01am UTC](https://community.prismic.io/t/linked-documents-localization/5023/9 "2022-03-31T08:01:48Z")

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Thanks @Pau!  
In my case I already copied all the documents to other locales but I forgot to update the document links on the translated documents (they were still referencing to the original documents). After reselecting the documents it finally referenced to the translated document.

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**Author:** ![Pau](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.prismic.io/pau/32/5422_2.png) [@Pau](https://community.prismic.io/u/Pau)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 12:39am UTC](https://community.prismic.io/t/linked-documents-localization/5023/10 "2022-04-01T00:39:52Z")

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That's great. I'm glad it worked!
