DRAFT PROPOSAL
This is what site admins see in the UI:

This is what the people filling the form see:

I would like to propose the following changes: - Rename "categories" to "recipient groups" in the backend, since that is what people are actually creating. - Allow customizing the label of the "Category" field (what site visitors see in the form). Depending on the use case, you may want to call it "Reason for contacting us", or "Select department to contact", or whatever. - Whatever the label is configured to be, make that the heading of the "Category" column. - Potentially also allow customizing the label of each "category", so that the options shown to site visitors in the select can have different labels from what the admins call them "internally".
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@yorkshirepudding, In the end I fixed it by deleting the config/active folder contents, copying the config/staging/ files into config/active, importing the database again and clearing the caches...
Importing the staged config throws an error: another field with the same name already exists
Thanks, I have to go out now, I will try later on and report back
Importing the staged config throws an error: another field with the same name already exists
Hi Francis. Yes, what config do you have in staging for it? You might have configs like: field.field.field_video_embed field.instance.node.page....
Importing the staged config throws an error: another field with the same name already exists