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Hi

I have a canvas app. Inside there is a combobox which Items property is set to a Stages(Dataverse table) and on fields i pointed out which field i want to display. 

Now i want in that combobox to translate this field values to other language and show it in combobox? how do I do that? DO o iahve to create like separate field in dataverse with a translated value and show that field?

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  • MarcelLehmann Profile Picture
    378 on at

    You can use this solution for your multilingual data:

    Create a simple multilingual app in 3 steps

  • Ethan_009 Profile Picture
    4,838 Moderator on at

    Hi @jja ,

     

    Similar to what @MarcelLehmann has given, but for dataverse;

    You don't need to create additional field in dataverse, simply use Language() function to detect the language and use in the App.

    Basic translation steps are: 

    //OnStart of the App - check language
    
    Set(varLanguage, Language());

     

    Use this in all places wherever you want to translate, for example:

    "All Active Accounts"
    
    If(varLanguage = "fr-FR", "Tous les comptes actifs", "All Active Accounts")

     

    Hope this helps

  • julijazas Profile Picture
    820 on at

    @Ethan_R 

    Hi

    This combobox i just want to make static - no need any language detections. Just a pure translation only for that APP

  • Ethan_009 Profile Picture
    4,838 Moderator on at

    Hi @jja ,

     

    I doubt that because data within cannot be translated. only models, labels, view names, table names etc are translated.

    For that we use: Language Translation for dataverse

    Language Translation for Canvas Apps

     

    This doesn't apply on data and optionsets since its statically defined. 

    You need alternative translated optionset.

     

    Hope this helps

  • MarcelLehmann Profile Picture
    378 on at

    This Power Apps code creates a collection named 'LanguageCollection'. This collection is made up of records, each representing a language.

     

    Each record in the collection consists of two fields - 'Language' and 'Entries'. The 'Language' field represents the language code (for example, 'EN' for English, 'IT' for Italian, 'DE' for German, and 'FR' for French). The 'Entries' field is an array holding five different entries or phrases for each language.

    To use this collection in Power Apps, you can refer to it by its name, 'LanguageCollection'. You can perform operations like filtering, sorting, or displaying data from this collection.

    For instance, if you want to display all entries in English, you could use a command like:

     

    Filter(LanguageCollection, Language = "EN")

     

    This would return the record where the 'Language' field is 'EN', which would be the English entries.

    If you wanted to access the third entry in the English language, you could use:

     

    Lookup(LanguageCollection, Language = "EN").Entries[3]
     

    This will return "Entry 3", the third entry in the English list.

    Remember that in Power Apps, arrays start counting from 1, not 0, hence 'Entries[3]' refers to the third element.

     

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  • Suggested answer
    Mehmet_Powerapps Profile Picture
    26 on at
    Hallo @julijazas,
    you can use my solution for your problem. I cant't paste here because my answer is long. 

    you can find it on my medium story. 
     
     

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