Enabling Translation With in the Power Apps

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Hello Super Users / Developers,

I am having Power apps application having SQL as backend till date everything in English language. Now they want to extend the multilingual search across the application.

Is it possible and can some one provide insights on this implementations

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Hello! I think this can be done by making changes to your SQL data model.

For example, if you want to translate the labels on a form (not the input values), you could create a table that maps the label in question to the value it should display. Let's assume the label is called "Label1" in the app (though you could use other identifiers besides the name of the control). We'll call the table tblFieldLabels

ControlName Language Value

Label1 English Name

Label1 Spanish Nombre

Label1 Hindi नाम

If we were hard coding the Spanish value (which we shouldn't, but bear with me), the text property of the label would be:

LookUp(

tblFieldLabels,

And(

ControlName = "Label1",

Language = "Spanish"

)

).Value

To make the language dynamic, you could set a variable, which we'll call varLanguage. This could be set when the app launches (based on the user's profile, location, or even a dropdown that the user interacts with). In that case, you can use the variable in the language part of the lookup.

(Somewhere else in the app):

Set(

varLanguage,

"Spanish"

)

In the text property of the label:

LookUp(

tblFieldLabels,

And(

ControlName = "Label1",

Language = varLanguage

)

).Value

Hope that helps!


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Hi,

To add to @CurtisAmrein’s response: you can use the Language() function to dynamically retrieve the language code of the logged‑in user. For text translation, apply the method described earlier (such as a translation table or connector). For number formatting or conversion, use the Text() function with either a fixed locale or the user’s current language code, for example:

Example:

// Format number in Danish
Text(100, "0", "da-DK")

// Format number in the user’s language
Text(100, "0", Language())

This approach ensures your app adapts automatically to the user’s locale for numbers, dates, and times, while translations for static text are handled separately.

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