[Closed] Translating the Labels on Radio Buttons created with ACF

That is not an inconsistency. This is a category. The first video is in the "Documentary Series" category (slug=doc) and the second two are in the Video Series category (slug=video). The problem is not in the difference, it is that it shows the slug and not the actual name.

Documentary Series was translated on the live site but maybe it wasn't at the point which I recloned this site to staging. I have since rescanned the theme for strings and translated it. Nothing changes.

The only way I could see to fix this is to remove the slugs and use only the labels in my code and then set translation preferences to "translate".

'key' => 'field_video_series_category',
'label' => __('Category', 'migrationmatters'),
'name' => 'category',
'type' => 'radio',
'required' => 1,
'choices' => array(
__('Video Series', 'migrationmatters') => __('Video Series', 'migrationmatters'),
__('Video Course', 'migrationmatters') => __('Video Course', 'migrationmatters'),
__('Documentary Series', 'migrationmatters') => __('Documentary Series', 'migrationmatters'),
__('Massive Open Online Course', 'migrationmatters') => __('Massive Open Online Course', 'migrationmatters'),
),
'default_value' => __('Video Series', 'migrationmatters'),
'return_format' => 'value',
'other_choice' => 1,
'layout' => 'vertical',
'save_other_choice' => 1,
'wpml_cf_preferences' => 2,

Then I could manually translate each category along with the rest of the text in the page. I tested this on my development server and it works, but ideally I would like to be able to use String Translation so as to have to do this only once.

I also tried setting the choices this way but leaving the wpml preferences to copy or copy once. Neither took the string translation into account and translated the category on the German page. Done this way, the full label is shown but always in English.

The relationship field just pulls in pages. The relationship field is called "cards". I then use the post_object to get the page information:

foreach ($cards as $post_id) :

$post_object = get_post($post_id);
setup_postdata($GLOBALS['post'] = &$post_object);

$category = get_field('category');

The $category is this button and just grabbed from the custom field category that is part of the page.

You can find this in the theme under here: /inc/acf/render/blocks/block-video-series.php

I aware of that issue. Since I use PHP and not JSON I found a workaround here:
https://wpml.org/forums/topic/repeaters-flexible-content-generated-with-acf_add_local_field-and-wpml/

This is quite a cumbersome workaround but I went in and did this and set all those system fields to copy. This has worked for everything else, so it would seem odd if this issue was related.