We just pushed an update to how Bubble handles application languages, which makes handling more than one language much easier. We added a few things: You can define a field on the user type that contains the language to apply to the user in the Settings Tab -> Languages. The field should be of type ‘text’ and should contain a value that is part of the list in the languages dropdown (english, french, greek, etc.). You can access the “current language” in the dropdown, as one of the App Data (like Website home, admin email, etc.). You can use this information in the conditional tab to change the text of some elements, for instance Elements that are localization sensitive will get adjusted automatically (calendar, date input, map, autocomplete for addresses, etc.). A refresh might be needed as some texts are added service-side. To change the current user’s language, you just need to modify the value of the field. Again, note that you’ll need to refresh the page for most stuff, as the choice of language is done server-side for performance. You can overwrite the language in the app URL if you want it to be in a given language. The way you’d do it is for instance by doing https://myapp.com?lang=russian The way the Current Language is defined as, by order of priority a) if a “lang” parameter in the URL is set, use this b) if the current user has a value in the relevant field, use this c) Use the app primary language d) english Be careful on the value you save (or that you put in the URL), it has to match one of the languages in the dropdown. Something like ‘American english’ won’t be applied as it’s not ‘english’, and so we’ll use the next item on the list in 6). And if some languages are missing, as usual, reach out, we’d love to have more!

Hi @emmanuel, I assume the forum does not have answer to this, can you please guide. [image] Ankur: How do we deal with dropdowns for multiple languages, many of actions are derived from dropdowns? Secondly how do I provide two languages in data, like if there is an entry by the name ‘oranges’ in database and in other language it is called ‘xyz’ how do I show ‘xyz’ to user who has chosen the secondary language, primary being english?

We currently do not support conditions for captions so building two dropdowns is probably the best way. We’ll look into it but we cannot give a timeline yet.

I see, not a very big problem but yeah time and space consuming, I hope you guys come up with a solution soon. What about the second problem, how to populate database, will that too be required to be duplicated?

Hi @emmanuel, I just discovered that the alternative language option is available in slide-bar menu, is it really challenging to incorporate the same features in dropdown menu and radio buttons? [image]

Hi, I’m new to Bubble and trying to setup some best practices for managing multilingual datas / content. Ho do you structure your datas and how do you build the query ? For exemple if I have a product list and I want name and description fields to be available in several languages, how do I store them in a clean and efficient way and how do I query them based on User language ? Here is what I tried (it works but not sure if there is better ways to deal with it) : [image] This is (more or less?) the approach #4 from this article [image] How to Design a Localization-Ready System In this era of globalization, companies – including software developers – are always interested in expanding to new markets. This often means localizing their products for different areas. In this article, we’ll explain a few approaches to designing... Thank you for your insights, :::: Update ::::: After 2 more weekends… here is the improved query (I understood how to link different tables): [image]

Hello. How can we carry the ‘lang’ query parameter across all pages by default for users without a language settings (ie, anonymous users)? What I mean is that, when an anonymous users lands on our website, he can change the language of the site, and we modify the lang query string with the language he selected. But the links on that page don’t carry the lang query parameter, so when the user clicks on any of them, the new page will be in the default language, not in the language he selected in the previous page. Sure, we could update the temporary user thing, but I was also thinking of Google Bot. If we wanted Google to index every localised version of each page, it would be handy if Google Bot could navigate the pages on the language it is expecting. Regards.

Any updates on this? @Bubble @neerja Dropdowns and radio buttons should have a way to deal with multiple languages.

You may want to check this thread as a workaround. There are several plugins that can help you.

I don’t think having a dropdown for each language is a practical or an efficient solution to be honest.

LOL sorry. I forgot to paste the link :slight_smile: [image] [SOLVED] Multilingual dropdowns Need help Haven’t thought about this much but can’t you use the conditional tab to provide different lists based on the language. That is a different condition with a different list for each of your supported languages. If you were providing static choice options I will have recommended the Air Static dropdowm labels free plugin.

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LOL sorry. I forgot to paste the link

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