Have an issue translating ACF options page

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October 30, 2023 at 9:37 am #14689657
krzysztofO-3	I have an options page from acf and cannot translate the fields. I looked at https://wpml.org/documentation/related-projects/translate-sites-built-with-acf/translating-the-acf-options-page-custom-fields-with-wpml/ and it seems my fields are set to Copy, as they are blocked for translation in the secondary language. I have my fields in a group and the entire group has a key lock icon and says it's locked for translation as wpml will copy the value from the original language. However when looking at https://wpml.org/documentation/related-projects/translate-sites-built-with-acf/recommended-custom-fields-translation-preferences-for-acf-and-wpml/ I see that my field types (images, text, paragraph) should not be set as Copy. I'm attaching an image of the options page changed to the secondary language. Is there any documentation that you are following? Is there a similar example that we can see? What is the link to your site?
October 30, 2023 at 3:30 pm #14693223
Nicolas V. Supporter Languages: English (English ) French (Français ) Timezone: America/Lima (GMT-05:00)	Hello, Welcome to the WPML support forum. Setting up translation preferences for each field can be tricky. So, let's review your configuration step by step: 1. In "WPML > Settings > Post Types Translation" the translation preference for "Field Groups (acf-field-group)" must be "Not translatable". 2. In "Custom Fields > Field groups" when editing your group, you have 3 multilingual configurations: - Same fields across languages > Used in most cases - Different fields across languages > Only if you want totally different fields between your languages and if you're using WordPress native editor to translate your content. - Expert > This allows you to choose the translation preference for each field Note that special fields such as "Repeater" or "Flexible Content" need specific translation preferences. Read more about it here: https://wpml.org/documentation/related-projects/translate-sites-built-with-acf/recommended-custom-fields-translation-preferences-for-acf-and-wpml/ Standard recommendations are: - "Copy" or "Copy once" for special fields "Repeater" and "Flexible". "Copy" is you want the exact same repeaters and structure, else "Copy once" - "Translate" for all the fields you want to translate such as texts, WYSIWYG etc... - Use "Copy" if you don't want to translate the field but keep the same value, for example for colors, true/false, images etc... If your "subfields are inside a "Group" or "Flexible Content" field, try to set that field as "Copy once" and then set your subfield as you want (Copy or Translate)

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