Formulayt's translation management capabilities enable enterprises to deliver localized form experiences while maintaining global governance. This guide explains how to export, manage and update translations across your form estate.
Importing and uploading translations
First, you need to find the Export Button in the top right of the Manage Translations screen. This will provide you with an excel sheet.
Translations export layout
Important: Do not change any values in columns A, B and row 1.
Column A Name is the label for the phrases.
Column B is the Default Value. If no translation exists for the active language, this default value will display.
Everything right of Column B contains translations organized by country and culture. For example, French Canadian appears as fr-ca.
For cultures, if a translation cell is empty, it will cascade toward the root language and then to default.
Updating the translations
You can delete full rows and columns (except columns A, B and row 1). The system will only update what is in the spreadsheet and will not delete translations where cells are blank. To delete a translation, use the main translation interface.
When ready to import, select File > Save as > Drop down > CSV UTF 8. This step is essential. Uploading the incorrect file type could result in corrupted characters.
Check your updates by going to manage translations and spot checking phrases, defaults and languages.
Here you can verify that the translation from the export sheet matches up with the relevant language.
Finally, push to live to publish your translations.
That's everything you need to know to add or update translations for your gates.
Important note about translation indexing
When creating or editing fields with user-facing text, the text must be indexed by the Formulayt platform before it appears in the translations area.
To index new or updated text, preview a gate in the Formulayt admin area and make the relevant text appear.
Field labels: View the form in the preview.
Picklist values set by a rule: Trigger the rule so the relevant values appear.
Custom content updated by a rule: Trigger the rule so the updated content appears.
Validation and error messages: Trigger the validation condition so the message appears.
For example, if you have a validator that prevents letters in a phone number field, enter a letter in the field to display and index the resulting error message.
Translation indexing only runs in the Formulayt admin area, not on external pages.