Installing & Using multilingual guidelines

Requirements

This tutorial requires you to install the Viindoo instance.

As an international software, Viindoo supports many different languages for users to choose from. This article will show you how to change the language of your Viindoo system.

Activate languages

To use a new language, first of all, you need to activate the translations for that language in the Viindoo software. Navigate to Settings ‣ General Settings and search for the Languages section. Once done, you will be able to see the number of activated languages and the Add Language button.

Navigate to the Settings app in Viindoo Add a language without activating debug mode

However, in order to see all the available languages and modify some other configurations, you need to activate the developer mode. When this mode is activated, you will see 02 methods as follow:

Add a language in debug mode - Viindoo software
  • Method 01: In the Languages section, you can find the Manage Languages button. Press this button to change to the supported Languages management view in Viindoo software.
  • Method 02: On the menu bar, you will see a new option named Translations. Press Translations ‣ Languages to change to the same Languages management view.
Supported languages in Viindoo software

In the Languages management view, you can find the full list of available languages in the software. You can use filters to search for the suitable language. Press Activate to activate a language. You can Update or Disable the activated languages by pressing the corresponding button.

Once the activation is done, press Switch & Close if you want to use that language right away, or Close if you don’t want to change the current language (note that the enabled language will be marked in the Activate column).

Add more languages to the Viindoo system Change to the newly enabled language in Viindoo software

Update translations for a language

The Viindoo software is constantly developed and updated, therefore, some translations might be outdated and replaced. To display all the latest translated terms, you can manually update the translation for the required language.

Update the existing languages

Similar to the language activation, activate the developer mode and navigate to Settings ‣ Translations ‣ Languages ‣ Update. Before clicking on the Add button, make sure that the Overwrite Existing Terms option is chosen to have the old terms replaced with the new ones.

Change language for a personal account

You can read details about how to change the language for your personal account in the User account privacy setting article.

Change language for other user’s account

With the Administrator access right, you can change the language settings for any user in your system. Navigate to Settingss ‣ Users ‣ Manage Users to access the Users management view and choose the one that needs to change the language.

Navigate to users management view Select the user to change the language

In the user view, press Edit and choose a new language in the Language field in the Preferences tab. Click Save after finishing the language modification to have the system language changed to this new one.

Edit languages for an user Select and save new language for an user New language succesfully set up for user