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How to add Multi Language in Portal

Hi Experts,

 

I want to enable the Spanish Language as my default language for my portal and an option to switch the language from Spanish to English.

I have flowed the below document and completed the procedure but still not able to see the option to translate my portal:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/portals/configure/enable-multiple-language-support

 

By default, it is opening the portal in https://www.xyz.powerappsprtals.com/en-US

I am trying to get the multi-language translation option which can translate my portal page content into different languages.

 

Please help me with this. any particular process which I am missing?

 

Thanks,

Amit

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OliverRodrigues
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okay I think I see now where you are getting mixed up

 

so basically setting up multiple languages in CDS or the Portals doesn't mean it will have a translation engine behind that will translate your content.. it basically allows you to write content in multiple languages, but you have to define that content yourself

 

CDS/metadata translation --> if your attribute is an OptionSet then yes it will be translated via metadata

otherwise, if you have a lookup/text field, your data won't be translated here, just the attribute name

For example:

Route Name

Route 01

Route 02

 

in the metadata translation you will define the translation for "route name", but not the records

Nombre de ruta

Route 01

Route 02

 

To solve the above problem, you will need to have another attribute in your CDS entity with the spanish value

Nombre de ruta (ES)

Ruta 01

Ruta 02

 

now to display that in the portal you have another challenge, if that's an Entity List, you might want to have two entity list, one for English, another for Spanish, each one showing the proper fields.. now in your two localized web pages, each one can reference a specific view/entity list

another option is hiding/showing the columns via JS based on the current language

does that make sense?

 

now in regards the HTML content: <p id="OnGoingJourney">On Going Journey</p>

your text is hard-coded in english, so it will show always in english, it won't translate automatically.. and that's the main reason the Portals split the Web Page into a "root" and a "localized" web page, so you can have multiple localized web page, with different content in each page.. in other words, write in english in the english web page.. and write in spanish in the spanish web page

#Pro Tip

avoid hard-coding any content/text/labels in your Portal.. try as much as possible using Content Snippets

you can reference that in your HTML by the snippet name.. you don't need to worry about language, the Portals handle that itself, all you need is to make sure you have a snippet for each language (with the same name):

<p>{{snippets['your snippet name'] }}</p>

 

 




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Anonymous
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Hi @OliverRodrigues 

 

I think this makes all the things clear to me. Thanks for explaining this in brief.

And also thanks for giving a solution for HTML static text. 😊

 

But do you think that JS code will behave differently on different Localized page? because as I mentioned My JS code is running fine in English but in Spanish.

 

Any Help will be appreciable.

Thanks,

Amit

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OliverRodrigues
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hi @Anonymous 

very weird the JS not working

it should work as normal.. maybe add a few alerts/console.log to see whats missing

perhaps is something on the Web Template

 

if the previous messages helped with your issue, can you mark as solution? this will help other users in case they are experience similar issues

 

play a bit more with your web template/JS, perhaps start a new thread if you are still facing issues

 

thanks 




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chleverenz
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Hi @Anonymous ,

may be a dumb reply, but did you restart the portal? Usually, those basic things are deeply cached and may not be visible immediately.

And there might be another issue: when the page you are trying to display is not available in the targetlanguage, the defaultlanguage will be shown.

Hope it points in the right direction,

  Christian

Have fun,
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Hello, a few things to check:

 

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Hi @OliverRodrigues  and @chleverenz ,

 

I have followed the above-mentioned steps and I am able to get the language select option in portal:

Translation IssueTranslation Issue

 

but when I am selecting the Spanish Language option then it is not changing the content language, it is still showing in English. I have also included Spanish Page Localized content in each parent pages.

 

Please suggest if I am missing any option.

Thanks,

Amit

OliverRodrigues
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Hi

now that's weird

have you tried also other portal elements? like entity lists/entity form? is it having the same behaviour?

 

is the portal URL getting updated correctly? like <portal url/es-es/page?

 




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Anonymous
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Hi @OliverRodrigues 

Yes, it is the same for portal elements like Entity List/ Entity Form.

Also, the portal URL getting updated correctly. like <portal url/es-ES/page

You can have look in below screenshot that few contents of Entity List are changing but not the field name, Also the Text which I have created using HTML code is not changing  to Spanish:

Translation Issue Entity ListTranslation Issue Entity List

 

Also, I am getting a weird issue for the Spanish page i.e the JS code is giving error but the same code is running fine for the English page.

for example:

if(recentJourney[0].End_Date != "")
{

}

Any Help will be appreciable.

Thanks,

Amit

OliverRodrigues
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Hi, actually a few things there I can see are working fine

 

in regards the column/attribute names.. I am assuming that's a custom entity, that won't be translated automatically

you need first to translation in the CDS side, have you done that?

open the solution --> export translations --> open it via excel file, make your changes --> import back in CDS

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/customerengagement/on-premises/developer/create-solutio...

 

I am not sure to why the HTML/JS are not working for your localized page, but that JS seems a bit weird for me

what type of object is the "recentJourney"? 




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Hi @OliverRodrigues 

No, I haven't done that before. Let me check on that CDS translation for Custom Entity. What about the HTML text which I created? that is not translating to Spanish automatically. 

And regarding JS code "recentjourney" is a JSON object from which I am reading data.

  var recentJourney = $.parseJSON(
    $.ajax({
    url: '/XYZ/',
    dataType: "json",
    async: false
  }).responseText);

    if (recentJourney.length < 1) 
    {
     //some code
    }
    else if(recentJourney[0].Journey_End!="")
    {
     //some code
    }
    else
    {
    //some code
    }

 Thanks,

Amit

OliverRodrigues
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can you share the code for the HTML?

 

is this ajax call from an EntityList/Odata from the Portals?

if yes, are you sure that the attribute name is correct? "Journey_End"

usually we have prefix to entity attributes like.. new_ or cr09_ etc

 




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Anonymous
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Hi @OliverRodrigues 

 

Below is an HTML code by which I am displaying text:

<p id="OnGoingJourney">On Going Journey</p>

 

And for JS code, I am calling a page where I have written a Liquid code and the output type is Json. So the name of Key in Json I have given in that way.

 

One more clarification I would like to have i.e If I make the CDS translation then only fields name will be translated in Entity List or its the data rows will also be translated?

 

Thanks,

Amit

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