Form Guide: Field caption translation

Hi,
I have developed a lot of PDF forms using the caption data binding to implement the form translation. It worked fine.
I have tried to use the same way in Form guide using the caption data binding in LC Designer, but it doesn't work. The fields are coming with default caption in form guide and with the translated value (coming from data) in PDF.
Have somebody a solution to that? What is the best way to implement the field caption translation to let it work both in PDF form and in form guide?
Thank you for your help!
Denis

Guides does not suppport this feature today. I have entered an enhancement to get it supported in a future release.
As a work around you could create a separate subform and have hidden fields on your template that point to the caption values in your data. Then you can bind the caption in the guide to the appropriate hidden field that holds the corresponding value.

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