I have this script to duplicate my website into a new language. It worked perfect a while ago, but now (on a different server much bigger sitetree) it wont work.

I get this error

[User Error] Translatable::createTranslation(): Please save your record before creating a translation
GET /sapphire/main.php?url=/dev/tasks/TranslatePages&

But i don't know what i need to save? :s Please help!

The script

<?php
class TranslatePages extends BuildTask {

   protected $title = "Translate all Pages";
   protected $description = 'Copys all Pages into another Language (Note: set $Locale and $newLocale!)'; // description of what it does
   
   protected $Locale = 'en_US'; // language of the pages you want to translate
   protected $newLocale = 'de_DE'; // the language it should get translated to

   function run($request) {
      $Pages = DataObject::get('SiteTree', "Locale = '".$this->Locale."'");

      foreach ($Pages as $Page) {
       if(!$Page->getTranslation($this->newLocale)) {
	   $newPage = $Page->createTranslation($this->newLocale);
       //$newPage = createTranslation($this->newLocale);
       $this->debugMessage('Translated '.$Page->Title.' from '.$this->Locale.' to '.$this->newLocale);
       }
      }   
      $this->debugMessage('Done');
   }
   protected function debugMessage($msg) {
      if(!SapphireTest::is_running_test()) {
         Debug::message($msg);
      }
   }
}

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I know its a late reply, but i just ran into the same problem.

The reason i got this error was because of orphaned pages in my sitetree. One page was still inside the DB but had no parent. That broke the createTranslation function.

Hope this helps someone with the same problem. =)