WPML copy to relationship field

[DovWebmark]

If I set WPML to copy fields when duplicating a post, it will not copy any field which is a relationship. Even if I manually add the row to wp_podsrel, it will not load it in the copied page, and will mark the field as being empty.

[jimtrue]

@DovWebmark Can you please provide more detail? When you brought this to our Slack Support, you provided more information and we need that logged here as well in order to replicate the problem:

1. What steps did you take to create the issue (including your configuration for WPML for this particular post-type and relationship). Since this is a conflict with another plugin, we need as many details as possible since we'll be engaging WPML for assistance with this one.

2. What was your expected outcome?

3. Screenshots can also be helpful. The more information you can give, the faster we can get someone working on this one.

Thanks!

[DovWebmark]

I have a pod with a relationship field to another pod, and it is a required field.
I want to make a language duplicate with the field already filled in.
If I set the field in WPML to 'copy', it should be filled in. It is not. Even if I then set the field manually and save, I get a message that the field is empty.
If I go into the table wp_podsrel, I see that the entry is missing for the new page for that field.
Even if I add it manually, when loading the page, it is marked as empty.

[jimtrue]

Do you have a 'default value' set for the field? The 'required setting' for the relationship sounds like it's conflicting or it's a timing issue for the point when the copy to WPML takes place. @JoryHogeveen Do you have much experience with the WPML configurations? I don't think PolyLang exhibits this particular problem.

[DovWebmark]

No default value

[jimtrue]

@srdjan-jcc Also mentioning you on this one to see if this is behavior you've seen in your testing.

[JoryHogeveen]

Hi @DovWebmark @jimtrue

I believe this is because the meta sync/copy feature doesn't translate the post ID's. So the translated posts will get ID's from an untranslated post, and these get filtered out once use try to edit or view a post.

@jimtrue Polylang has the exact same problem and this is not something Polylang or WPML should fix. These plugins don't know the context of a meta value so it could just be a numeric value.
We should hook into the sync mechanism and make sure relationship ID's are translated.

A plugin I wrote for Polylang: https://github.com/JoryHogeveen/pods-polylang-sync-meta (check the dev branch!)
Could be ported to a WPML version quite easily I think.

[jimtrue]

@JoryHogeveen Does this mean our relationship field connections don't currently translate when you translate a post? I think I follow the issue from your description above, but I think we need @sc0ttkclark 's feedback in here on the best way to handle, especially with the changes being planned in 2.8

Also, is there currently a workaround for this condition?

[JoryHogeveen]

Does this mean our relationship field connections don't currently translate when you translate a post?

Nope they don't since translating in theory is just adding a new post.

There is no actual workaround for this.
The only thing you can do is to stop syncing/copying metadata and just fill it for each translation again OR just fix the errors for each translation you add manually.

[JoryHogeveen]

Btw, Polylang related issues: #1851 #3773 #3774

[jimtrue]

@JoryHogeveen #3774 says it's invalid because it was caused by a synchronizations setting from PolyLang. Is this not the case for that one?