Language pickers

If your survey offers multiple languages and you allow respondents to select their language, there are two ways to do this.

1. You can enable the In-Survey Picker in the Translations applet to let them select their language throughout the survey.
2. You can use the language picker tag on a radio or pulldown question so respondents can select their preferred language before they begin.

Regardless of the language chosen, the recorded data is stored in the same survey location.

In-Survey Picker

If a respondent's country has multiple languages in the Translations applet, first make sure all translations have been uploaded and applied to the latest published version. Once the translations are ready, toggle the In-Survey Picker column to "on."

When a country has more than one language enabled in the In-Survey Picker column, a language menu will appear in the bottom right corner of the screen for those respondents.

'language picker' tag

To let respondents select their survey language before starting, apply language picker: y to a radio or pulldown question. Then, for multi-country studies, add a condition decorator with base_country to display relevant languages. In the example below, the following language are available in each country:

• Canada: English, French
• United States: English, Spanish
• Mexico: English, Spanish

LANGUAGE. What language would you like to see the survey in?
type: radio
language picker: y
eng-1. English {if $base_country eq 'us' or $base_country eq 'ca' or $base_country eq 'mx'}
spa-1. Spanish {if $base_country eq 'us' or $base_country eq 'mx'}
fre-1. French  {if $base_country eq 'ca'}

Details

• The option IDs for the language picker: y must match the translation key values for each language created in your survey.
• The option IDs can be found in the Translation Key column in the Translations applet.
• For multi-country studies, add a condition to only show the relevant languages per country, as shown above.