Setting up Language Translation
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The Language Translation option in Zoho Forms helps you reach a wide range of respondents for your form by overcoming language barriers globally. Using this option, you can share your form in multiple languages, allowing respondents across the globe to understand the questions in their native language and respond appropriately. You can configure Form Rules to trigger actions based on the form language and acknowledge your respondents for their entries in the desired language.
By default, your form language will be the one used to build your form. Learn more about changing your form builder language.
Translating a form into supported languages
To translate your form into a different language,
- After building your form, navigate to the Settings > Translation & Messages > Translation from the left menu.
- Click Start Translating.
- In the Form Language dropdown, you can choose to change the default form language.
Note: The Form Language dropdown reflects the default language you set in your form's display settings. This language becomes uneditable once you create translations, as it serves as the source for them. Th change the default language, you must update the Form Language setting under General > Display before you begin adding any translations. - 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.
- Click Translate.
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. Once you translate the form, you can view a list of all the languages that your form is translated into under Translated Language(s).
Translation Settings
Translation settings allows you to do the following customizations to your translated form:
Show translated languages in the live form
You can display the translated languages directly in the live form (shared publicly or privately) for your respondents to choose from to enhance the form's accessibility and user experience. To do this, enable the Show translated languages in the form.
This option can be enabled by the form owner as well as by a form collaborator.
When the respondents accesses the live form, they can click the translate icon that lets them select their preferred language from the list of the languages that you have configured to translate your form into. The entire form then automatically swaps to the chosen language.
This helps:
- You expand your audience to include respondents from diverse linguistic backgrounds.
- Respondents choose the language they're most comfortable with, making the form easier to understand and complete.
Show calendars in translated language
Enabling Show calendars in translated language allows you to display calendar elements, such as the names of days and months, in your form's translated language. This feature works only for languages supported under Calendar Language (General Settings > Date & Time).
For example, if you have translated your form into Chinese, Portuguese, and Filipino and enabled this option, users who select Chinese or Portuguese in the live form will see the calendar translated into their language because we support those calendar languages. However, if a user selects Filipino, the calendar will remain in the default language set in General Settings > Date & Time > Calendar Language because that specific calendar language is not supported.
Note:
- 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.
- 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 for: -Choice-based fields
-Dropdown in Matrix Choice field
-Title in Name field
-Country list in Address field
Note :
The Language Translation option is available only in our paid plans.
You can configure only up to 10 language translations.
For Trial plan, you can translate 3 forms per organization. For Basic, Standard, Professional, Premium, Express, and Zoho One plan you can translate up to 250 forms per organization.
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
The supported languages to which you can translate your form are listed below:
| EU DC | |||
| German | German | Hindi | Hindi |
| Hindi | Hindi | German | German |
| Portuguese | |||
| Filipino | Portuguese | Portuguese | Swedish |
| Lithuanian | Filipino | Portuguese | |
| Croatian | Lithuanian | English | |
| Latvian | Croatian | Hungarian | Italian |
| Hungarian | Latvian | Malayalam | |
| Chinese | Hungarian | Swedish | Hungarian |
| Armenian | Chinese | Kannada | Tamil |
| Ukrainian | Oriya | Chinese | |
| Indonesian | Armenian | Marati | Spanish |
| Urudu | Ukrainian | English | Czech |
| Macedonian | Italian | Arabic | |
| Malayalam | Indonesian | Tamil | Japanese |
| Marati | Urudu | Chinese | |
| Malay | Macedonian | Spanish | Romanian |
| Greek | Malayalam | Gujarati | Dutch |
| English | Czech | ||
| Italian | Malay | Arabic | |
| Spanish | Greek | Telugu | |
| Estonian | Punjabi | ||
| Arabic | English | Assamese | |
| Assamese | Japanese | ||
| Japanese | |||
| Persian | Italian | Romanian | |
| Romanian | Spanish | Dutch | |
| Dutch | Estonian | ||
| Russian | |||
| Belarusian | Arabic | ||
| Finnish | Assamese | ||
| Bulgarian | |||
| Bengali | Japanese | ||
| French | |||
| Georgian | Persian | ||
| Slovak | Romanian | ||
| Slovenian | Dutch | ||
| Catalan | |||
| Serbian | Belarusian | ||
| Swedish | Finnish | ||
| Kannada | Bulgarian | ||
| Oriya | Bengali | ||
| Korean | French | ||
| Tamil | |||
| Gujarati | Georgian | ||
| Czech | Slovak | ||
| Telugu | Slovenian | ||
| Punjabi | |||
| Tagalog | Catalan | ||
| Polski | |||
| Danish | Serbian | ||
| Hebrew | |||
| Swedish | |||
| Kannada | |||
| Oriya | |||
| Korean | |||
| Tamil | |||
| Gujarati | |||
| Czech | |||
| Telugu | |||
| Punjabi | |||
| Tagalog | |||
| Danish | |||
| Hebrew | |||
Translating a form manually
While translating your form, if you do not find the language of your choice from the list of supported languages in the Translate To dropdown, you can manually translate the form into any other language using the Custom Language option.
To do so,
- Navigate to Settings > Language Translation from the left menu.
- Click Start Translating.
- In the Form Language dropdown, you can choose to change the default form language.
- In the Translate To dropdown, select the Custom Language option.
- 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. - Click Translate.
In the Translation Settings pop-up, you can enter the translation manually under the following sections:
Form Content
Field Content
Acknowledgment Content
Custom Messages
To translate your form into more languages manually, repeat the above steps.
You can view a list of all the languages that your form is translated into under Translated Language(s).
- You can change the text direction of the translated content from LTR to RTL or vice versa.
- 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).
- 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
Languages Supported to translate manually and their respective codes are as listed.
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