[SOLVED] Multilingual dropdowns

[julienallard1]

I’ve been knocking my head against my desk for a while about this and can’t seem to find a viable solution.

I need to make a dropdown so the user can choose the status of a thing in the database. The status can either be “None”, “Read” or “Write”. But I want the caption to be something else. Let say: “No access”, “Read only” and “Full access”. This is fine since I can choose which field to display as a caption.

What if I the dropdown to follow the language of the website? Right now I have english/french. Spanish may come in the future. There is no option to dynamically choose the caption field in the dropdown’s property…

Thanks for any help!

[JonL]

I haven’t tried this but you could maybe save the translations in a single string like “en:hello,es:hola,it:ciao” and have a custom state/thing that saves the language in two chars. Then use a regex to extract the translation string by looking for the first match for the two chars for the language.

[seanhoots]

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.

[New Free Plugin] Air Static Dropdown labels

Just published this tiny plugin called Air Static Dropdown labels, that i think some few people might find useful. This plugin allows you to display dropdown labels different from the values when using the default bubble dropdown with the static option. For dynamic choice you can simply use the features available in the default dropdown element. If you want to have a dropdown with lables different from values, in most cases you create these as two different fields in your database and use th…

[julienallard1]

That’s it! It’s exactly the solution I was looking for.

Il will create a data type called “Status Options” with three fields: Status, Caption-EN, Caption-FR. And depending of the selected language the dropdown will display the Caption-EN, or FR.

I couldn’t figure out the conditional part.
Thank you very much!!

[julienallard1]

Hi @JonL, thanks for replying. What you propose was kind of my last resort solution. I really was looking for a more conventional way to achieve what I needed. Turns out @seanhoots’ solution is exactly what I needed.

Cheers

[miguel]

Hello @seanhoots. First of all, thanks for this plugin. It’s great!

Unfortunately, we can’t use the ‘Data source (text lists)’ in a Conditional, so we can’t show different texts from a Data source based on conditions.

Any chance you could update the plugin to enable this?

Thanks!