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Last updated by ericH-23 14 hours, 57 minutes ago.

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January 20, 2025 at 9:41 pm #16615649

ericH-23

Background of the issue:
I have added an ACF field to the taxonomy Jobmanager category and added a value in EN. I want to automatically copy this value into the other language versions of this taxonomy field.

Symptoms:
I am unsure if there is a WPML setting or function available to automatically copy the ACF field value to other language versions.

Questions:
How can I automatically copy the ACF field value of the Jobmanager category to other language versions?
Is there a WPML setting or function available for this task?

January 21, 2025 at 8:58 am #16616846

Dražen
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Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Europe/Zagreb (GMT+01:00)

Hello,

Thanks for contacting us.

While you wait for my colleague to take over the ticket, let me try to help you with the issue quickly.

I would advise checking our related documentation, you should be using ACFML addon and then setting that field to COPY translation settings:

- https://wpml.org/documentation/related-projects/translate-sites-built-with-acf/
- https://wpml.org/documentation/related-projects/translate-sites-built-with-acf/recommended-custom-fields-translation-preferences-for-acf-and-wpml/

Saving/updating default language should then copy same value to translated taxonomy.

Regards,
Drazen

January 21, 2025 at 12:16 pm #16618341

ericH-23

Hi,
Thanks, I understand it so far.

I think the normal way is here to add an ACF field to a post.

But I am adding it to a taxonomy.

And a taxonomy field is only copied, if it is connected to a post, which is then translated/duplicated (names/slug).

(ACF field content I got yesterday only into the other languages, after deleting the taxonomy and to add the whole taxonomies to a post and translate the post. Without deleting the taxonomy the fields weren't updated.)

So in my tests a ACF taxonomy field is not copied.

Is here a further / special setting / function code / hook available?

So I mean: adding a value in an acf field in the category (taxonomie) list in EN and automatically adding it (or the translations) into the same field in other languages?

Thanks, kind regards
Eric