[Resolved] Translating ACF fields in the Advanced Translation Editor

Hi,

Welcome to WPML support. I will answer before the ticket is assigned to one of my colleagues.

Would you please update WPML to version 4.7.2 and string translation to 3.3.2?

- IMPORTANT STEP! Create a backup of your website. Or better approach will be to test this on a copy/staging version of the website to avoid any disruption of a live website.
- Go to "WordPress Dashboard > Plugins > Add new > Commercial (tab)".
- Click the "Check for Updates" button.
- Update WPML and its addons there.

For more information:
https://wpml.org/faq/install-wpml/#automated-updates

After that please search for the value in string translation and see if you can find it there.

Thanks

Hello,

I'll help you get started while a supporter takes your case.

In order to help you, what is the default value? because if the field is a telephone number, then this tells me the content is an actual set of numbers which by default are always hidden since otherwise they could be translated automatically, using credits.

About the link, what kind of link is it? is it an internal link? because it ay be filtered out since it would be handled by WPML once the translation is finished, so it either won't appear in ATE or if it does, you have to search for it (it will appear as hidden by default).

Can you let us know so we can better understand if this is expected or not from our end?

if "Telephone Number" is the label of the field, then you will see it only when you send the labels to translate given that they were translated in the past (I'm assuming the first screenshot contains that string you're looking for which is not there anymore).

When it comes to the number, it's a phone number and it will be filtered out.

You're seeing old information because you are seeing the ATE "session" that existed before you modified those changes. see when you change custom fields, they do not act the same way as when you change native content fields like the title or the body, so you might want to send the page to translate via WPML > Translation Management or add a small change like an empty space to the title and save it, that should resend the changes to the translations and will make you see the links as before but the actual number will be filtered out because it's a complete number.

Just to see if our devs can help me find a way to do what you want, what would you want to change in the number? the country code?

1) The old information is there because the custom field is still likely added to the database linked to that specific page. That happens a lot when you add a field and then "remove it" instead of overwriting it, could that be your case?

2) The field group post type should've been "blocked" (with the lock icon on it), those blocked field are like that for a reason: they should not be changed. I can see you unlocked that field, so please:

- Delete all the translated field groups
- Delete them from the bin as well (Delete permanently option)
- Go to WPML > Settings > Post type Translation
- Find "FIELD GROUPS" and set them to "do not translate".

3) By default all the numbers are filtered out from the editor. I'm trying to see if I can find a way to have them shown at least when you search for them, but so far it seems it's not going to be possible.

Apart from that I'd really love if you could watch this video: hidden link

In there I explain how things work and why you're also seeing that content that you removed (or at least one of the reasons why).

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Edit, you can see here how to achieve what you want: hidden link

Regards.