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avatar piyusshkumar
piyusshkumar
25 Feb 2026

Pull Request resolves #46912 .

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Summary of Changes

This PR fixes an inconsistency where language overrides were not applied to custom field and filed group titles in the adminstrator list view.

When the field or field group titles was stored as a language constant (eg:- 'CUSTOM_FIELD_TEST_TITLE') and also language override existed. In the administrator Fields and Field Groups list views, the raw constant was rendered instead of translated text.

Testing Instructions

  1. Go to Adminstrator - Content - Fields.
  2. create a new custom field, set the title to a language constant, e.g- 'CUSTOM_FIELD_TEST_TITLE' .
  3. Then go to Adminstrator- system - manage- Language Overrides
  4. Add a override: Constant : 'CUSTOM_FIELD_TEST_TITLE' and Text: 'My translated Title"
  5. now (after the fix) Edit forms and Adminstrator Fields displays "My translated Title". (fixed)
  6. Same for Field Groups

Actual result BEFORE applying this Pull Request

BEFORE: title was displayed instead of language constant

Screenshot 2026-02-25 192520

Expected result AFTER applying this Pull Request

AFTER: language overrides are applied successfully.

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Link to documentations

  • [ ✓] No documentation changes for guide.joomla.org needed
  • [✓ ] No documentation changes for manual.joomla.org needed
avatar piyusshkumar piyusshkumar - open - 25 Feb 2026
avatar piyusshkumar piyusshkumar - change - 25 Feb 2026
Status New Pending
avatar joomla-cms-bot joomla-cms-bot - change - 25 Feb 2026
Category Administration com_fields
avatar piyusshkumar piyusshkumar - change - 26 Feb 2026
Labels Added: PR-5.4-dev
avatar brianteeman
brianteeman - comment - 26 Feb 2026

Sorry but you have not addressed all areas. In the screenshots below you will see the language overrides I have created

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And here you can see where it does and does not work

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avatar tecpromotion tecpromotion - change - 26 Feb 2026
Title
Fix language overrides to custom Field and Field groups titles in administrator list view
[5.4] Fix language overrides to custom Field and Field groups titles in administrator list view
avatar tecpromotion tecpromotion - edited - 26 Feb 2026
avatar piyusshkumar
piyusshkumar - comment - 28 Feb 2026

Hii @brianteeman
I have now verified that group title is now correctly translated in the Field list (including the Field Group column ) and in the Field group list view as mentioned in the issue #46912

But the group name is still not translated in :-
Field edit form (group dropdown )
the Batch → Move/Copy group dropdown

Before proceeding further could you please point me to the preferred layer/file where this should be handled ? Should this be fixed in the form field class or there is any preferred layer/files ?

avatar piyusshkumar
piyusshkumar - comment - 1 Mar 2026

Hii @brianteeman
The remaining untranslated group titles were coming from two diffrent sources FieldgroupsField and FieldsModel::getGroups() , both were returning raw titles without passing through Text::_().

I have now updated. Here are the screenshots

Screenshot 2026-03-02 010859 Screenshot 2026-03-02 011211 Screenshot 2026-03-02 011312 Screenshot 2026-03-02 011624 Screenshot 2026-03-02 011808
avatar piyusshkumar
piyusshkumar - comment - 6 Mar 2026

@bembelimen @richard67 , Please review

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