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When you create a survey, on the New Survey page you select the languages to be used for that particular survey (go to Creating a New Survey for more information). The default will be that selected in your User Settings page (go to User Account Settings for more information), but as a Professional user you can create your survey in as many languages as you need. If you wish to add more languages whilst creating the survey, click the Add more languages button to open a Select Languages dialog, and select the languages you wish to use. Click Use these languages to return to the New Survey overlay. You can add more languages at any time by going to the Survey Management > Overview page; scroll through the Languages list and select those you wish to use. Note that Standard users must have a special "Multilingual" permission to create multilingual surveys.
Each place in the survey when translated text will need to be available in the respondent's selected language, such as a question's Text and Answer tabs, the Email Details page etc. will have text fields for each of the languages you have selected for that survey. You can then write into the various fields the appropriate texts in those languages. A maximum of five language fields can be displayed at any time. Go to the Question Details page > Languages tab for any question to select which of the languages activated for the survey are to be displayed on the question tabs at this time. Note that the Languages page is common for all questions in the survey; the languages selected in this page for one question will be available for all the questions in the survey.
Tables created in the Database Designer are not survey-specific; they can be used in any survey. The languages available in the tables are therefore not controlled by the settings in the Languages tab. If you are using the designer to create a database table for example for use in table or hierarchical lookup, then you will need to add the required languages via the table properties (go to Table Properties for more information).
Texts and other messages that may be presented to Authoring users and respondents by the Authoring system are translated into a number of "standard" languages. However you may wish to have the messages displayed in a language that Forsta does not provide as standard, or you may wish to change some of the texts and messages to suit a particular survey or dialect. You can edit the messages on the Survey Messages page (go to Survey Messages Overview for more information).
Languages and Database Modes
Authoring keeps two separate databases for each survey; a test database and a production database. When working with surveys in Authoring, you can switch between the Test and Production modes, and also select the default survey language in multilingual surveys, at any time. Click the down-arrow beside the Database or Language fields in the lower right corner of the window, then select the appropriate option from the resulting list - .
Figure 1 - Language and database mode selection
In the Launch Survey and Survey Settings pages the system at all times indicates the database in which you are currently working - .
Figure 2 - The active database shown in red text on the Launch Survey page
Note: Standard users must be allocated a special Multilingual permission if their surveys are to have more than one language. Unless this permission is activated, for Standard users the Language selection drop-down will display only the default survey language. Also, Standard users do not have access to the Test database, so the Database selection field is not available to them.