Make translation manual input the default for vocab

There are over a thousand vocab items for each JLPT level.
Before the update, in the interest of time, since Grammar is my main focus and I only need to “recognize” the vocab, I had it set up such that it would show me the word and I translate it. For example, it would show “ゴルフ” and I type “golf” into the answer.
However, now that seems to hold for items I already unlocked, but when unlocking new items it gives me the fill-in-the-blanks style questions where it asks me to type in “ゴルフ”.
Is there any way to change this back? My deck setting is already on “manual input” but does not give me any other options.
To clarify, I am trying to change both review and lessons, to go back to the way they were before, where it presents the word and I translate it to english.

We could debate which is the better way to learn, certainly having to answer in Japanese would give more depth, but right now I am trying to cover as much material as possible in the shortest amount of time, and would not have time to cover everything unless I change it back.

Thanks.

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This is a bug.

I’ve identified an issue with the Deck Setting > Review Type setting, and are currently working on a fix. It should be out tomorrow.
I’ll tag you in the post when it’s fixed.

In other news, we’re also going to be adding a Global setting so you don’t have to set it on a per-Deck basis.

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Yay I’m glad you found the problem! Thanks for all your hard work ^^

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Thanks, that’s great news!
And yes a global setting would be nice but hope it can still be set on a per-deck basis, as the idea is I want to cover as much as possible now, and later on may set a harder review mode (such as answering in Japanese) for decks I learnt earlier.

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To anyone else confused like me trying to change all their vocab items’ review type or set a default review type and searching the forums to find a way to easily do it rather than one by one.

Go to Decks > Choose the deck you want to change > Deck Settings > Review Style [Vocab]

Bunpro Cloze = Fill-in / Manual
Flashcard = Translate / Reveal & Grade
Manual Input = Translate / Manual

Select one of these from the dropdown menu and then click the “Change ALL to ___” to change all your current reviews to the new type.

Edit: The server may take a moment to update items. If you open an item in a separate tab and then change the setting to all current items then you should see it change without having to refresh.

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To add to this post since the problem seems to be half fixed, when I add new vocab via ‘learn’ it comes up as the translation option as i want it to, but when manually adding vocab it only sometimes comes up as translation. I’ve got all my decks set to the right setting, but some of the vocab isn’t in the JLPT decks so I have to manually change them all. When manually adding from the search it seems random, sometimes cloze and sometimes translate.

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Is there any way to set the default review behavior for grammar to be recognition only? @veritas_nz

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What do you mean by recognition only?
Do you mean like this?

We really need to get on the Global Settings for Review-Type huh…

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Yes, that’d be great.

I have tried changing that option on individual items, but it doesn’t stick. Everything has been manual input, when I’d like to try the graded version.

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Changing it on individual Vocab pages should definitely work… :thinking:
Are you thinking it’s a bug?

Maybe it’s because I’ve been changing it in the middle of a review?

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Yeah if you change it in the middle of a review it won’t change it for that review i think

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Yes you’ll need to restart Reviews for that change to take effect!
Sorry for the confusion :bowing_man: