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[Escalated to WPML Developers team] Deleted/Changed ACF Flexible Content still showing in ATE
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Our 2nd tier support team has found the cause of the issue. The issue happens because ACF doesn't delete the fields with specific conditions:
In the Repeater or Layout field, there is a clone field.
The clone field uses "Group (displays selected fields in a group within this field)" display
(hidden link)
In that case, deleting the row from Layout or Repater field leaves the metadata in the postsmeta table, and WPML displays it in ATE.
ACF stores two values for each row, one with a clone field suffix and another without a suffix.
After removing the row, the value without a suffix is deleted, but the actual value of the clone field with a suffix is left in DB. (The one in the red box is deleted hidden link)
As a workaround, please try to replace the display option from "Group (displays selected fields in a group within this field)" with "Seamless (replaces this field with selected fields".
Unfortunately I'm unable to switch to a seamless display because it completely messes up the layout in the Editor (see attached screenshot). The websites I've added WPML to are pre-existing so it's too late to make major changes like this to our ACF setup.
I'm afraid this is the available workaround for this issue currently. The issue has been escalated to our Dev team, so they will check it and see if we can fix it on our end or need to cooperate with ACF to fix it.
However, this process might take some time as our Dev team has a full queue right now.
Thanks Osama - I hope your Dev team can find the solution 👍
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