Uploaded PDFs and polylang

Hello,
I am setting up a website, in two languages: Spanish and Gallego.

On a page, I have inserted a shortcode to display PDFs to be downloaded, that have a specific category assigned.

example:
[wpdm_category id=”xiii-autocross-carballo-2021″ order=”desc” template=”link-template-default-wdc” cols=1 colspad=1 colsphone=1]

I have this shortcode on two pages: one in the default language (spanish) and then the second language (gallego).
But on the second language, the shortcode doesn’t work – it says “Category doesn’t exist!”

Do I have to create a translation for every upload, with translated category assigned?
Or is there a way for me to use that one same category on all pages (all languages?)

(ie, the spanish PDFs to be downloaded on the spanish page, and gallego page)

I hope I made sense!
Thank you

Hi
i appreciate your help…
but what you did is what I had done already: create two differente categores, one for each language.

but I was hoping I could use the same category for all languages, ie, to insert this shortcode
[wpdm_category id="test-esp-cat" order="desc" template="link-template-default-wdc" cols=1 colspad=1 colsphone=1]
on both the spanish and gallego pages
(and show the same spanish PDFs on both)

So… Thanks anyway! It seems it must interpret paths or something (parent pages… not sure) so that if the shortchode uses the spanish category, when used on the gallego pages, we get the message “category not found”.

I will simply have to rememeber to upload the files twice, and assign each one its different category.

Yes, that makes sense.
It’s interesting though that this isn’t an issue if using the tree category extension (as you can see in the widget here http://www.rallyenaron.com
Thanks

Yes, but on the other site that is also two languages, using polylang, I can use the same category in the widget and it displays on both languages, I don’t get the “category not found message”