Web Forms for Marketers and language

Question

We are using the WFFM module with a custom save action.

Now, running through the AdaptedResultList we can access the fields with data. In this field set there is a property called FieldName. In my developer environment this follows the language the form is submitted in. But in the production environment it takes the language of the last updated version of the form.

What should I do to get the form name in a language-consistent way? The overall problem is that the language of FieldName changes in an unpredictable way.

Answer 1

I have seen the same behavior - what I concluded out of some tests is that WFFM is taking the "title" of the field in which the form was first requested. After that, it will stay in that language until the site restarts. WFFM caches some stuff it should not, and I assume this is one of those. We've had other issues with translations in WFFM due to the same phenomenon (in error reporting).

So, as that actually could not really be fixed in our version and we could not wait for a patch, we used the fieldID property instead like this:

var fieldItem = Sitecore.Context.Database.GetItem(new ID(field.FieldID));
// use fieldItem.Name

We continued with the fieldItem.Name which is the actual name of the field item in Sitecore - this will not change when switching languages.