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Multi lingual offline app

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Hi all, What is the best way to make a multi language offline app? We are trying to make an offline mobile app to be multi lingual; based on the language setting of the user. There are some design models available, but not especially for offline (https://community.mendix.com/link/questions/5419). So the calculated attribute design model won't work offline and other options might have performance issues.

asked 2019-04-24

David Brini

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Nikolaus Weiss · Answer 1 · 2019-04-24

I’m currently working on a multi-lingual offline app, but in my case, the data does not need to be translated – only the interface, which is handled in the modeler.

Our data is kept completely separate for the different language regions. You could do something similar. Link all the entities you show in the app to a parent entity (language), and then set access rules on each entity that limit which data the user can access based on the selected language. Then you would just have to take care of filling in the translated values for the data in an admin panel (online browser page).