Add a translation for your tile

In this topic, you learn how to provide a manual or automated translation for the title, subtitle, description, status, and open button text of your tile in a chosen language. This translation is only displayed when the user selects this language on the launchpad.

You can translate visual tile text via machine translation and AI with the following functions:

Google Translate

Use the Google API to machine-translate visual text on your tile.

Naia Translate

Enable Naia to create AI-based translations for visual text on your tile.

Prerequisites

  • For Google Translate, you have entered a valid Google API key in the Custom Settings tool.

  • For Naia Translate, you have turned on the switch for Naia in the Integrations tab of the System Settings tool.

Procedure

  1. If you want to display a translated title, subtitle, description, or status for your tile on runtime, in Tile, in the Information section of the Settings tab, optionally enter text in the fields Title, Subtitle, Description, and Status, as required.

  2. If you want to display a translated open button text for your tile on runtime, in the Open Button section of the Layout tab, optionally enter text in the Open Button Text field.

  3. Select Save.

  4. Go to the Translation tab.

    Result: Entered text of the title, subtitle, description, status, and open button text for your tile is displayed as an overview in the language of entry.

  5. Select Add.

    Result: The Language Selector dialog opens.

  6. Choose a language or multiple languages and select Use Selected Languages.

    Result: A row for the selected language is added to the field for population.

  7. Choose the following:

    1. Manually enter your translation in each field of the row.

    2. To use Google Translate machine translation, select Google Translate Selected.

    3. To use Naia Translate AI translation, select Translate.

Result

  • You have added a translation for the title, subtitle, description, status, and open button text of your tile in a chosen language.

Take general precautions when handling machine translation and AI, including potentially verifying the correctness of machine-translated text, and ensuring relevant data sensitivity.

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