Questions tagged [translation]
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Get Label value for specified language
I'm trying to implement a preview screen with a picklist of available languages and a textbox with translated text. The problem is System.Label.My_Preview_Text or $Label.My_Preview_Text are already ...
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Why does the LIKE SOQL operator implicitly translate picklist values?
Assume, I've got a standard picklist field Rating on Account with values Hot, Cold. Using enabled Translation Workbench I've translated these values into German.
When the language of a user is set to ...
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Translated related list label in salesforce
I overrode a related list label using translation workbench. How do I get the translated related list label in apex?
I tried with Schema.getChildRelationships(), but no luck.
Thanks in advance.
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Custom Labels In Force.com Site
I have enabled Translations, with languages English and Russian. I have made one Custom Label and added a Russian translation. I have added that Custom Label to my Force.com Site. What do I need to ...
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Translate navigation menu in partner community
We need to create a multi-language customer community, but I am now stuck with translating of this community.
I have seen this doc about translating the community, but it does not let me translate ...
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Assign language Value dynamically in Visualforce page
I am trying to assign the language dynamically in a Visualforce page which I have specified in controller. Right now it is hard coded as
<apex:page language="de">
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</apex:page>
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SFDX Translation - Override
Following Error occurs when trying to pull(sfdx force:source:pull) custom translation override from a scratch org.
Steps to replicate:
Navigate to "Override" under "Translation Workbench" in the ...
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Picklist value translation
I have am email body I'm generating in APEX and I want it to include the translated value of a picklist.
How can I get the translated value in APEX?
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How to see Translation for Custom Label in Lightning Component?
I have a Lightning Community for different countries. Have components w/ custom labels(Language : English). Labels have a German Translations(German, active). I use labels in tags:
etc.
I see only ...
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Lightning components: Custom label translation not working in managed package
I'm developing a lightning component as part of managed package.
Translations work when I'm inside the development org, but I get only English values when using the component in my test org where I ...
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Metadata API : How to get the translated values of picklists of my object
Wanna get the translated values of picklists of my object? How can I get them in Apex.
I tried using Metadata APi but invain. Can anyone suggest me?
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APEX: access profile by name in known/predictable language regardless of running user's language [duplicate]
It was recently brought to my attention that for our clients, SalesForce translates profile names (such as "System Administrator") which causes errors when the Apex code attempts to check profile ...
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Need .stf example
Got stuck with importing translations of custom labels. I'm using translation workbench and its import file page. Base file for my import is one exported by Salesforce workbench with some edits. ...
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Translate picklist value in PageBlock title
We are using
<apex:pageBlock title="{account.MyField__c}">
where MyField is a picklist with the corresponding translations. The problem is that the picklist value is not translated to the ...
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Controlling language in salesforce
I have a custom object on which I have few fields and I successfully uploaded managed package which includes the custom object. Now I want to have the field labels for this object's fields appear in ...
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APEX: get a Custom Label translation in a certain language which is not equal to the current user's language?
Scenario with Custom Lables
I've defined tons of custom labels in Salesforce setup in order to cleanly support translations for localized strings. This work great if the labels are used for UI ...
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If I find a bad translation of a standard label in salesforce, how should I report it?
I'm a 20 years consulting profesional and recently decided to add Salesforce to my skillset, so I'm studying all the trails, modules and books I can get my hands on in order to prepare for a future ...
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Creating a centralized place for picklist
I would like to get a suggestion on centralizing pickilst values.
In salesforce, we need to define picklist values in each object for same kind of fields. For example, i want to add 'status' field in ...
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Multi language support in community built using LWC (Migration from Visualforce to LWC)
We have an Identity community which supports more than 50 languages built using visualforce pages. We would like to migrate the community to LWC. For that, main issue we are facing is the language ...
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Retrieve custom translations for a custom label via the metadata API
How can one retrieve these translations for a custom label via the metadata API?
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How to set the language for API Rest or SOAP?
I'm integrating SF with other systems using the standard SF API (SOAP and REST). For this, I'm using a specific user which has a special profile (using API Only permission).
The Integration user has ...
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Deployment error regarding translations when generating package version
In a scratch org where the translation workbench is enabled, I added English as a supported language (the language for the organization is Japanese) and ran the command sfdx force:source:pull, which ...
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Translation, Localization and Internationalization Best Practices
There are plenty of things to keep in mind when trying to allow translation, localization and internationalization (t8n, l10n, i18n) in any framework. Salesforce has a whole infrastructure built ...
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Dealing with different word order in a multi-language application?
I am developing a multi-language application which supports English and Japanese. But, as everyone might have known, the language structure of these two languages are quite different. For example, ...
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CustomObjectTranslation invalid characters
I'm trying to use Ant to deploy some changes to a sandbox that has been updated to Winter '22.
I'm getting 2 errors from 2 different custom objects that
.objectTranslation -- Error: Invalid characters ...
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toLabel() in aggregate query
I am using the toLabel function in an aggregate query, but it doesn't return the translation of the picklist value.
I have changed the language of the user to Dutch and executed the following query:
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Salesforce multi language knowledge & customer community
i give you a description of the context.
we are building a community and a knowledge base solution for a customer.
The knowledge base uses two languages (English UK, Italian), where the default ...
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Describe/use picklist values in specific language, not the User's language
This Salesforce org includes English and Italian versions of field labels and picklist value labels. This works find within the UI, and for most purposes. However, we have a custom CSV upload page ...
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APEX: how to get Custom Label's text dynamically? [duplicate]
There is a way to get Custom Label statically in APEX as documented here
System.Label.Label_Name
Can I get this label without hardcoding Label_Name?
What I've tried so far (and did not work)
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Where in the SFDX tree do translations of quick actions go?
I'm failing to successfully Google where to put in the SFDX tree translations for the labels of quick actions e.g. <label>Duplicate Account</label> here:
<?xml version="1.0" ...
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Insert multiple SObject data in Salesforce as single transaction using REST calls
I am using following soObject call to insert new row in the Account table at Salesforce server :
curl -H "Authorization:OAuth use your session_id" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @Test.json "...
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Can I query the translated value and return the key in translation workbench?
Here is a breakdown of the problem I am trying to solve.
In a web to lead form we are updating a custom picklist field on the record based on inputs from the form. The value is coming back in the ...
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Is there a good way to "untranslate" picklists in Apex?
The project I am working on supports many languages and Case record types.
There is also a large amount of dependency between the Case record type and the Case type field (but it isn't one-to-one and ...
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How to translate "Closed" in Opportunity?
How do I change the textual value of 'Closed' to "I like cheese" in English, and 「チーズが好き」 in Japanese?
"Closed" isn't an actual stage, so it's not in the "Stage" picklist translations:
And I've ...
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LWC: how to dynamically get translated value from Label
In Aura we used to do this:
let labelName = 'mylabel';
$A.getReference("$Label.c."+ labelName);
In LWC $A is not accessible anymore.
Following the documentation I can only see a way to get access ...
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Retrieving Picklist Translations in Lightning Component in Communities
We have a lightning component that displays State & Country Picklists. The component is on a Community builder page with a French language community.
Note: The default language for the ...
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How to programmatically double apostrophes in custom label translations?
I have a custom label which contains a couple of parameters:
Hello, {0} the other param is {1}.
I wish to output this value in a Visualforce Page like so:
<apex:variable var="firstParam" value="...
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Retrieve Translated country picklist values
I wanted a Metadata API to get the Spanish translations of Address Country picklist.
Using Translations type or Address doesnt help me get the values.
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What are the meanings of each of the three levels of language support?
Salesforce offers three levels of language support:
Fully supported languages
End user languages
Platform-only languages
However, I feel that the definitions of the latter two levels of language ...
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Find available languages for knowledge base articles in soql
I want to retrieve our stored knowledgebase articles regardless of the language they are in. However querying KnowledgeArticleVersion using SOQL requires a language be specified in the where clause or ...
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Visualforce Remoting and translations
Is it possible to retreive translated picklist values using VF Remote Objects?
For example, I have a Solution and I'm trying to get Solution.Status.
So I have the following:
<apex:...
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Accessing to picklist value in a specific language
i'm facing a problem : i need to access to translated values of a picklist thanks to Apex.
I have a picklist with English master values and i have translated these values thanks to the Translation ...
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Custom Labels - naming conventions - best practices?
We're about to start refactoring a bunch of hard-coded text from a client's Lightning Components and Visualforce pages into Custom Labels so that they can support multi-language users. Unfortunately ...
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Visualforce Page Force.com Sites - Language Translation - How?
I have a force.com site with many Visualforce pages in it. I want to convert those pages into different languages (Ex: Spanish) based on the Locale of the user who has logged in.
Our force.com ...
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Localization Best Practices for Managed Packages
I have worked with Custom Labels in Managed packages forever but never had to refactor an existing app to be localizable (I18N) for multiple languages. So in this question I would like to hear from ...
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Where can I get the list of standard Site labels
I am developing a multilingual site and want to use when possible the standard site labels.
Where can I find the available labels to use with description and translation?
I will call them from a ...
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How to retrieve languages in which a Knowledge Article is translated
I have knowledge articles created in en_US in my org and want to query in what other languages the article has been translated
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How to retrieve translations using Metadata API?
I'm trying to deploy the work that was done via Rename Tabs and Labels and Translation Workbench using Workbench and the Metadata API.
According to this answer, my package.xml should look like
<...
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Language Translation for picklist values in VF Page
There are 2 picklist fields in my VF page. I successfully translated the whole VF page using custom labels (into Spanish), but the picklist values are not translated. How to translate them?
Here's ...
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How to get translation of field label based on language and locale? [duplicate]
I have a use-case where I want to get a translation of field labels based on user locale and language.
How to do that using Apex or any other alternative is available ?
Basically query data from ...
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