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Sync disabled WS's to FW-Lite

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Description

(I think this is low priority. It's likely more complex than it initially sounds AND probably doesn't affect a whole ton of users)
See: https://community.software.sil.org/t/i-want-to-see-data-in-disabled-writing-systems/11211

In FieldWorks, if a writing system is disabled, any data in that WS is still shown:
(This message hints at that, but doesn’t explicitly state that it’s true even for disabled WS’s, which is the case based on my testing)

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Currently we don’t even migrate disabled WS’s to FW Lite.
That’s probably not good.

I’ve seen a couple projects that are using this pattern so that they can add definitions for the vernacular language. I.e. the vernacular language is added as a disabled analysis language and then only turned on for the definition field or left disabled, but is enabled manually when the user wants to add a definition.

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Research direction

Start by tracing how writing systems are migrated and synchronized to FW-Lite, comparing the handling of enabled and disabled writing systems. Check the linked community discussion for the expected behavior; done means disabled writing systems and their data are available in FW-Lite as described.

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Assessment

Tech stack
csharp
Domain
backend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Quiet
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Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
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