Enable multi languages

Introduction

Many Casewhere applications are created for users who come from different countries and/or speak different languages.

This tutorial will demonstrate how to enable multi languages for the three action buttons: add new book, edit book, and delete book that you already created in the previous steps.

Guide

Part 1. Create and manage multi language text

Step 1. In Casewhere Admin site, navigate to Text resources
Step 2. Click Set Languages button

Languages dialog will show up

Step 3. Click Add button

Create languages dialog will show up

Step 4. Choose the language that you want to create text with, here in this tutorial we will demonstrate with Danish

Field name	Actions
Culture	Select "Danish (Denmark)"
Show on Resource List	☑

Click Save

You should see the column's name "da" is now added to Text resources screen next to the column "en"

Those columns are where you will fill in the English and Danish version of your strings.

Step 5. Click Add button . Fill in the table as follows:

Field name	Actions
Key	Fill in "Add new book"
en	Fill in "Add new book"
da	Fill in "Tilføj ny bog"
Description	Fill in "Action button for adding a new book"

Click Update

Part 2. Enable multi languages

Step 1. In Casewhere Admin site, navigate to Pages

Choose the pages name "book-list" that you already made in create a page step

Step 2. Choose Add New Book action button and select Edit Action

On the drop down menu, choose the key value that you added in Step 6.

Step 3. Reload your page

Now in the top right side, switch languages from English to Danish.

The string "Add New Book" will be changing as you switch between two languages.

Step 4. Way to go! Now let go back to Text Resources screen and add other translated strings follow part 1 of this tutorial

Key	en	da-DK	Description
Add new book	Add new book	Tilføj ny bog	Action button for adding a new book
Edit book	Edit book	Rediger bog	Action button for editing book
Delete book	Delete book	Slet bog	Action button for removing book

Step 5. Repeat step 1,2, and 3 of this part for the "Edit book" and "Delete book" buttons

Reload your site to see the result.

Tip: Text Resource icon is the indicator that the field is translatable.

With Casewhere, all the labels that will appear on the user interface (UI) are able to be translated, it includes:

Buttons

Menu labels

Column headers

Error messages

Form texts

Part 3. Export and import text resources

You can export your whole text resources list into an .xlsx file, you can edit that .xlsx file and then import it back into Casewhere instance's database.

Step 1. In Casewhere Admin site, navigate to Text resources
Step 2. Click Export button to download the .xlsx file
Step 3. Open the .xlsx file. Any label that is missing some translations will be marked in red

Fill in all the missing place in your file and save.
Step 4. Import your edited .xlsx file back into Casewhere by click Import button

Part 4. Text resources - Edit mode