Language pickers (r9)

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 latest published link. 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 allow respondents to select their survey language before they begin, you can apply language picker: y (alias lang picker) to a radio or pulldown question. Respondents can then choose their preferred language. For example, QLANGUAGE below lets respondents from Switzerland select whether to continue the survey in German or French.

LANGUAGE. What language would you like to see the survey in?
type: radio
language picker: y
ch-dec. German
ch-frh. French

When a language is chosen, the respondent is rerouted to the correct language link.

Details

• The option IDs used with language picker: y are created by combining the two-letter country code and the language URL suffix, joined by a dash (e.g., us-spa). This format is also used for the primary country's base language.
• Unless modified, surveys default to using the locale 'us-eng', which is United States-English.
• The option IDs should match the countries and languages listed in the Survey Configuration applet for your survey.
• Be cautious when using language picker: y as adding a language not available as a translation doesn't trigger any warnings.