Setting up Language Translation
Translating a form into supported languages
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After building your form, navigate to the
Settings > Translation & Messages > Translation
from the left menu.
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Click
Start Translating.
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In the
Form Language
dropdown, you can choose to change the default form language.
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In the
Translate To
dropdown, select the language you wish to translate your form from the list of languages. If
you do not find the language of your choice in the list, you can manually translate the form into any other language using the Custom Language
option.
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Click
Translate.
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In the Translation Settings pop-up, you can view the translation applied to your form and modify the translated content as required under the following sections:
Form Content
Under this section, you can change the translated versions of the Form Name, Form Description, Form Tab Title Save, Review, and Submit buttons.Field Content
Under this section, you can modify the translated content for the field labels, field elements, field instructions, choices of choice-based fields, navigation buttons of a multi-page form, Subform field labels, etc.
Note: If you have customized the field labels, or applied text formatting to the content in the Description and Terms and Conditions fields while building your form, the customization will not be carried over to the translated version. You will have to re-apply the same to the translated content.
Acknowledgment Content
Under this section, you can change the translated content of the Thank You pages and Splash Messages configured under Acknowledgement and Redirects settings and Form Rules.Custom Messages
Under this section, you can change the translated versions of the error messages, validation messages, and other general messages that appear in your live form.
To translate your form into more languages, repeat the above steps.
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You can view a list of all the languages that your form is translated into under
Translated Language(s).
- If you have modified the content of your form after saving the configuration for a language translation, you will have to re-translate the modified content for the changes to reflect in the live translated form.
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To customize alerts and error messages, use the custom messages
option under Settings > Translation & Messages and translate the error messages to the desired language.
If you have configured
Language Translation
for your form, the merged field responses in the merged documents will be in the same language as entered by the respondents. To merge translated form responses for the following fields while creating merged documents using Zoho Writer
templates, enable the
Send picklist values in form's translated language
option:
-Choice-based fields
-Dropdown in Matrix Choice field
-Title in Name field
-Country list in Address field
Note
:
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The Language Translation option is available only in our paid plans.
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You can configure only up to 10 language translations.
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To change the form language selected in the Translate From dropdown while configuring a language translation, you must first delete all the language translations that are already configured.
Supported Languages by Zoho Forms
| Supported Language ( in all DCs ) |
| English |
| German |
| Spanish |
| Russian |
| Croatian |
| Ukrainian |
| Chinese |
| Italian |
| Portuguese |
| French |
|
Korean
|
| Japanese |
| Romanian |
| Arabic |
|
Persian
|
|
Urdu
|
|
Armenian
|
| Hebrew |
| Polish |
|
Finnish
|
|
Georgian
|
| Swedish |
|
Greek
|
|
Catalan
|
|
Danish
|
| Hungarian |
| Czech |
| Dutch |
| Hindi |
| Tamil |
| Supported Language ( in IN DC, EU DC and US DC ) |
|
Oriya
|
|
Kannada
|
| Marathi |
| Bengali |
| Telugu |
| Gujarati |
| Punjabi |
| Assamese |
|
Malayalam
|
|
Indonesian
|
|
Malay
|
|
Filipino
|
|
Belarusian
|
|
Bulgarian
|
|
Latvian
|
|
Lithuanian
|
|
Slovak
|
|
Slovenian
|
|
Macedonian
|
Translating a form manually
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Navigate to Settings > Language Translation from the left menu.
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Click Start Translating.
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In the Form Language dropdown, you can choose to change the default form language.
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In the Translate To dropdown, select the Custom Language option.
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Enter the Language Code of the language to which you wish to translate your form. For example, enter lv to translate form into Latvian. Ensure that you enter the code in lower case.
Check out the language code of the supported languages for manual translation.
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Click Translate.
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In the Translation Settings pop-up, you can enter the translation manually under the following sections:
Form Content
Field Content
Acknowledgment Content
Custom Messages
- You can change the text direction of the translated content from LTR to RTL or vice versa.
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For the languages that you will translate your form into from now on, the default text direction will be set as LTR with the exception of Arabic and Hebrew, which will be RTL. You can change the text direction for the translated content at any point of time under Translated Language(s).
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If no text direction is selected for a translated language, the default text direction (under
General Settings) will be used.
If you have modified the content on your form after saving the configuration for a language translation, remember to translate the modified content again.
Supported Languages for manual translation
| Supported Language | Language Code |
| Croatian | hr |
| Maltese | mt |
| Korean | ko |
| Ukrainian | uk |
| Danish | da |
| Vietnamese | vi |
| Serbian | sr |
|
Irish
|
ga
|
|
Finnish
|
fi
|
|
Estonian
|
et
|
|
Greek
|
el
|
|
Icelandic
|
is
|
|
Turkish
|
tr
|
|
Catalan
|
ca
|
|
Albanian
|
sq
|
|
Norwegian
|
no
|
|
Thai
|
th
|
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Hebrew
|
iw
|
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- When a translated form is submitted, how to trigger email alerts in the same translated language?
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