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Langue

Working in your language

Choose the language your team works in, add languages for entering content, and translate records without leaving the form.

CommonLynk ships in over a hundred languages, and a workspace is never limited to two of them.

Two different questions

Language settings answer two separate questions, and it helps to keep them apart. The first is what language the buttons and menus appear in. The second is which languages your team may type real content into, such as the name of a programme.

Your primary language

Open Settings, then the Language tab. The primary language is the one everybody in your organisation sees CommonLynk in unless they have chosen their own preference. Exactly one language can be primary at a time, and it cannot be removed while it holds that position.

A person who sets their own language preference keeps it. Changing the primary language does not override anybody who has already chosen.

Content languages

Below the primary language is a pair of lists headed Available and Active. Search for a language, select it and choose the add button to move it across. Every active language becomes a tab you can type into on multilingual fields.

At least one language must stay active. Removing a language never deletes what was written in it: reactivate the language and the text is there again.

Anywhere a field can hold more than one language, a small badge showing a language code sits beside the box. The box itself always holds your primary language. Choose the badge and a panel opens with one row for every active language, so you can fill in the translations without leaving the record you are editing.

Screenshot: the language badge beside a field, with the translation panel open.
A person’s own name is handled differently. Names are stored in the script they were written in rather than translated, because a name is not a phrase with an equivalent in another language.

Right to left languages

When a right to left language is active, the whole interface mirrors: menus, tables, form layouts and the direction of every arrow. This follows the language itself, so it works the same way for Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Urdu.