[BUG] No category translations in free mode

[ulrike-cosmoblonde]

Using TYPO3 v12 and the solr extension (12.0.5) on a multi-language website in freemode, all categories are indexed with the original version (sys_language_uid = 0) and not the translated category.

The indexing configuration is standard (e.g. for tx_news):

categories_stringM = SOLR_RELATION
categories_stringM {
    localField = categories
    multiValue = 1
}

I can reproduce the problem on several of my TYPO3 v12 website using solr and categories.
I assume the same problem will happen for any SOLR_RELATION - not just categories.

The "old" behaviour (since TYPO3 v9 and at least up to TYPO3 v11) on those websites did index the translated version of the category if it existed and the fallback was the original category.

If I change to strict mode, then it seems to work as expected.

[dkd-kaehm]

@ulrike-cosmoblonde
Are the sys_categories on PID 0?
Could you try to move them all to a Root-PID, and try again?

[ulrike-cosmoblonde]

@dkd-kaehm Moving the categories to PID 0 does not change the behaviour

[dkd-kaehm]

@dkd-kaehm Moving the categories to PID 0 does not change the behaviour

Not to 0, but to the root page, which has translations.

[ulrike-cosmoblonde]

@dkd-kaehm
Sorry, I misunderstood you before. All categories where in a subfolder on a specific PID (so language information should have been available). I have now moved them to the root PID and the problem persists.

[dkd-kaehm]

Is this PID translated, also folder as well?

[ulrike-cosmoblonde]

Yes, the folder where the categories were in before was translated and the root folder (were the categories are in now) is translated too.

As described above, it happens on several of my TYPO3 projects and all were indexing before by using the translated version of the categories. And it only happens if the site language is configured in free mode.

[ulrike-cosmoblonde]

Hi, any news on this?
Could you reproduce the problem?
Thank you!