# Global Areas / Stacks show different translation status in the Dashboard depending on which Site's URL you access them from, despite being labeled "Global" (Multiple Site Hosting) **URL:** \ **Category:** Using Concrete / Help\ **Tags:** bug\ **Created:** [July 20, 2026, 2:21pm UTC](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/global-areas-stacks-show-different-translation-status-in-the-dashboard-depending-on-which-sites-url-you-access-them-from-despite-being-labeled-global-multiple-site-hosting/9994 "2026-07-20T14:21:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ConverSEO](https://forums.concretecms.org/user_avatar/forums.concretecms.org/converseo/32/5145_2.png) [@ConverSEO](https://forums.concretecms.org/u/ConverSEO)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2026, 2:21pm UTC](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/global-areas-stacks-show-different-translation-status-in-the-dashboard-depending-on-which-sites-url-you-access-them-from-despite-being-labeled-global-multiple-site-hosting/9994/1 "2026-07-20T14:21:16Z")
Hi all, We’re running Multiple Site Hosting (Concrete CMS 9.4.7) with two fully separate Sites (different Site Trees, different Canonical Domains, intentionally unrelated businesses), each with several Multilingual Sections. **Observation (see screenshots):** - Same Stack (ID 532, “Kontakt\_Form\_Offcanvas”), same locale (`nl_NL`) — in both cases clearly labeled **“Global”** in the Dashboard breadcrumb. - Accessed via `rekers-garagen.de`: the Stack shows the fully translated, correctly filled-out version. - Accessed via `rekers-beton.de`: the Stack shows _“This stack is not defined for Dutch (nl\_NL): the default version will be used.”_ - On the frontend, `rekers-beton.de` under `nl_NL` nonetheless renders the translation that was actually maintained under `rekers-garagen.de` — so the “not defined” Dashboard message doesn’t even match what the frontend actually shows. **The core of our concern:** These areas are called “ **Global** Areas” — we assume “global” means a Stack is a single, central resource treated consistently no matter which Site you access it from in the Dashboard. That’s also the whole point for us: we intentionally maintain content centrally and reuse it across multiple Sites. However, the **Dashboard view itself behaves inconsistently** : same Stack, same locale, but a different displayed translation status depending on which Site’s URL you’re in the Dashboard through. This contradicts our understanding of “global,” and it took us a while to figure out what was actually happening — especially since the frontend consistently serves only the one translation (the one maintained under Site A) regardless of what the Dashboard reports. **Our questions for the community/core team:** 1. Is it intended that the translation status of a Global Area Stack shown in the Dashboard depends on the entry-point Site, even though the Stack itself is shared across Sites and consistently served on the frontend? If not: should the Dashboard view instead always show the same (actually globally existing) translation status, regardless of which Site you’re accessing it from? 2. **What happens if we click “Create localized stack version” from Site B, when Site A already has a translation for the same Stack/locale?** As an editor on Site B, we have no visibility into the fact that a translation already exists on Site A — so we’d presumably end up creating a second, independent association without any awareness of Site A’s existing work. Specifically: Happy to share more details/screenshots if useful (we already have two side-by-side screenshots with identical Stack ID/URL structure). Thanks for any insight! ![image](https://forums.concretecms.org/uploads/default/original/2X/a/af1d779c0ba9d7d800a353736279a2e41e6d6707.jpeg) ![image](https://forums.concretecms.org/uploads/default/original/2X/6/67c3c3afb34ccdd8908454ed24f95eceaeed0d04.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Vuish](https://forums.concretecms.org/user_avatar/forums.concretecms.org/vuish/32/4972_2.png) [@Vuish](https://forums.concretecms.org/u/Vuish)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2026, 2:59pm UTC](https://forums.concretecms.org/t/global-areas-stacks-show-different-translation-status-in-the-dashboard-depending-on-which-sites-url-you-access-them-from-despite-being-labeled-global-multiple-site-hosting/9994/2 "2026-08-04T14:59:26Z")
This is a known problem. I found a related GitHub issue from 2022: [Stack translations missing · Issue #10582 · concretecms/concretecms · GitHub](https://github.com/concretecms/concretecms/issues/10582)