User properties (ie language) in embedded canvas app

[jonckhje]

Hi dear reader,

Today I'm embedding a canvas app in a form. Nothing special really besides the requirement that it should be aware of the personal language settings of the user.

So, if it's set on English, the labels should display English and when it's set on Dutch the labels (and dates ofcourse) should display in Dutch.

Usually I'd use the Language() function, but for some reason that doesn't do the trick in an embedded app, whatever I change in my personal settings, it remains en-US.

Any tricks that would suit up my sleave too?

Thanks,
Jeroen

[SanshubhLubal]

I don't know which way you're trying but You can set variables for Language like varLanguage and you can change variable values "English" and "Dutch".
Then write if condition on Lable's text property Like this

If(varLanguage = "English","Task Name","Opdrachtnaam")

[jonckhje]

Thanks, that does make sense.
My main challenge in this is that I need to retreive the users' langauage. In a regular canvas app or custom page I can use Language(), but once the canvas app is embedded in a Model Driven App, the value of this property remains en-US.

[frederikbisback]

I have the same issue. 
We need to translate the embedded canvas app in the form of the model-driven app to Dutch and French based on the selected end-user language. But the language on the canvas app always stays en-US (the environment's main language). Do you have Any ideas? 

[frederikbisback]

I found a solution: the canvas app language() depends on the browser language.

Switching the browser language solved my issue. 

[FCLucena]

Hello! 

I have the same issue here and changing the browser language did not affect the embedded app.

I've found this field uilanguageid (UserSettings entity reference (Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement) | Microsoft Learn) in the entity UserSettings, and was hopping to use it, but it is not accessible. 

I would really appreciate some insights on this!

Thanks!

Filipa

[FCLucena]

Hello, just to share the solution that we've found:

The uilanguageid field belongs to the User Settings table (usersettingses) which is not accessible via the table search directly in Dataverse, although there are some very similar ones that might confuse...

• Using the User().EntraObjectId function (user ID in Azure AD), filter the Users table to get the user record, where you can find the systemuserid field.
• Using the systemuserid, filter the User Settings table (logical name: 'usersettings') to get the user record, where the uilanguageid field is found.
• Using the uilanguageid field, filter the Languages table ('Locale ID'=uilanguageid) to obtain the language record.
• Use the field you want, which in my case was the code.

Set(
    language,
    Left(
        LookUp(
            Languages,
            'Locale ID' = First(
                Filter(
                    'User Settings',
                    SystemUserId = LookUp(
                        ShowColumns(
                            Filter(
                                Users,
                                'Azure AD Object ID' = User().EntraObjectId
                            ),
                            "systemuserid",
                            "azureactivedirectoryobjectid"
                        ),
                        azureactivedirectoryobjectid = User().EntraObjectId
                    ).systemuserid
                )
            ).UILanguageId
        ).Code,
        2
    )
);

Hope this helps! 

Filipa