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Switch language in string constants

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Hi, I am working on a language selection in a app. And it’s comfortable for switching the labels of the frontend widgets. But I have defined several string constants and using it for changing some text fields in a pushed app. My use case to easily adapt several descriptions in a pushed application. But I don’t know how to realize the language selection for these string variables. Do have an idea or a best practice solution for this case? Thanks and regards Ingo

asked 2023-05-23

Ingo Bernsdorf

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I hope this write up is still relevant to your usecase: https://medium.com/p/ae6c7ec35dee

answered 2023-05-23

Nirmalkumar Thandavamoorthy

Ward Brink · Accepted Answer · 2023-05-23

Hi Ingo,

Constants are fixed and don't change based on the langauge of the user. They ‘live’ in as environment variables on the server level, and not in a user context.

I think the best solution is to build this custom, by creating an entity named something like ‘Translations’ with three attributes:

- Locale (enumeration with languages you want to support)

- Key (enumeration with values for all the fields you want translated)

- TranslatedText (string)

You can then generate the objects and the translations, or make them managable from within the application. Or you can make a excel upload for it.

Then when you need a translation do a retrieve on the Translations table, with the locale that matches the user language, the key and display the translated text.

Hope this helps.