Translation

Overview

Zoho Creator provides multi-language support to collaboratively work online across organizational, geographical, and language barriers. Organizations can now add the preferred language in which they want users to access their application and create custom translations for each component within the application like Form, Reports and Pages. They can choose to provide access to the application in the user's preferred language or browser local language or the login users language, This feature greatly helps organizations to reach and engage a large of number of users worldwide who speak different languages – especially non-English speakers.  

Adding a language

To add a new language,

1. Click on Settings - Translation to access the translaton page. 
2. Click on Languages link and select Add Language button to add a new language. The new language will be listed under Supported Languages table, with status as active and auto-translate enabled. 
3. You can also create your own translations by selecting the Translate link in the Translations page. Read more..
4. Specify the language in which users wil access the application.  Read more..

Creating translations for the new language 

1. Click on Translation -> Translate 
2. Select the language to be translated from the Language list box. 
3. Select the component to be translated from the Component list box. For example, selecting the component "Forms" from the list, will display all the forms in the application, in the Create Translation table displayed below.
4. In the Create Translations table, specify the translation equivalent of the parent word. 
5. Click on Update to update the changes. 

Configuring the language in which users will access the application

Zoho Creator provides the following options to specify the language in which users will access your application.  Click on Translation and select the required option from the Access this application in drop-down. The screenshot below shows the Translation page displaying the 3 standard options "Browser Locale Language", "Login User's language" and "User's Choice" along with a few pre-configured languages.

Browser locale language - Selecting this option will enable users to access Zoho Creator in the language configured in their browser language settings.

Login users language - Selecting this option will enable logged in users to access Zoho Creator in the language specified in their account settings page. 

User's Choice - Selecting this option will enable users to access Zoho Creator in their preferred language, which they can select from the list of configured languages.

Screen shot of a Zoho Creator form with the option "User's Choice" selected

Screen shot of a Zoho Creator form with the French language selected

Supported Languages

Zoho Creator provides translations for the following languages listed in this table. If your language is not supported, you can request translation support by sending an email to support [at] zohocreator [dot] com.

Albanian	Latin
Arabic	Latvian
Azerbaijani	Lithuanian
Basque	Macedonian
Belarusian	Malay
Bengali	Maltese
Bulgarian	Marathi
Catalan	Norwegian
Chinese	Persian
Chinese_Traditional	Polish
Croatian	Portuguese
Czech	Romanian
Danish	Russian
Dutch	Slovak
English	Slovenian
Esperanto	Spanish
Estonian	Swahili
Filipino	Swedish
Finnish	Tamil
French	Telugu
Galician	Thai
Georgian	Turkish
German	Urdu
Gujarati	Vietnamese
Greek	Welsh
Hebrew	Yiddish
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Kannada
Khmer
Korean