Summary

To auto-translate a text for the user, two things have to be done:

• Create a text-field on a page in your config, and fill it with a placeholder name
• Add a translation for the placeholder for a desired language.

Users will then see the translated version of the placeholder.
For instance, the placeholder could be "BUTTON_START_MEASUREMENT", and the translation for it could be

• english: Start measurement
• german: Messung starten

Note
If the user has not selected a language, or if no translation has been stored for their chosen language, they will see the placeholder instead. Always make sure that your placeholders are translated into the languages your expected users will use.

How to

• Navigate to the first page you created (your home screen)
• Create a new element with the type 'note'
• For its title, enter "HOME_TEXT_HINT"
  - This name is very descriptive. Just by reading it, another editor might be able to realize that it is some form of hint-text, displayed in the home screen
  • By choosing a very clear, unique style (all capital-letters, joined by underscores), it is obvious that this is a placeholder
• Position this element on your page, as done in the first tutorial.
• Save the page.

Now, every user, regardless of their selected language, will now see "HOME_TEXT_HINT" on your home screen. To fix this, head to the next step to translate it.

Done? Translate your text