Multilingual
Steve Martin, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO
Jen Hoitenga, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO
Instructions
###Getting Started
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Add a variable called languages as a multiple choice field listing your languages as the choices. Make sure you add the action tag @HIDDEN. Make sure your choice values for languages are numeric, starting with 1. Example:
1, English
2, Español -
Refresh the page and you're ready to start entering translations. Remember you have to add the field first and save, then go back and edit it to add translations.
###Title and Instructions
- To add translations for the Survey Title and Instructions for an instrument, add a variable called survey_text_[form_name]. Each instrument should have it's own field with a variable name of "survey_text_[form name]" (Replace [form name] with the name of each instrument). Make sure you add the action tag @HIDDEN.
###Completion Text
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To add translations for Survey Completion Text, add a variable called survey
_text_finish. Make sure you add the action tag @HIDDEN. -
If you have just one instrument, you can just add the survey
_text_finish variable and add the Title, Instructions and Completion Text to it.
###Survey Settings (v1.11+)
- Version 1.11 of the module introduces the ability to specify Save & Return Later, e-Consent, and general survey text translations at an instrument's Survey Settings page.
- After creating a 'languages' field for the instrument, navigate to REDCap's Online Designer and click 'Survey Settings'.
- Select a translation language from the drop down below the Survey Status row. This will enable you to change the various text trasnlation settings available.
- After saving your changes, the provided translations will be available to survey participants.
###Default Translations (1.13+)
- The survey settings page now has a drop-down with options to pre-fill the survey settings with the following languages: English German Spanish French Italian Japanese Deutsch Polish Portuguese Portuguese (Brazil) Russian Chinese (Simplified)
###PDF Translate (1.14+) If the "Translate PDFs on a per-instrument basis" checkbox is selected in the module configuration, the multilingual module will translate PDFs generated by REDCap. The PDFs will be translated on a per-instrument basis, and each instrument will be translated to the language that the user selected for that instrument's survey (if a user did, in fact, select an alternate language while taking that instrument's survey).
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