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Possibility to set a default language for an audience?

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Hello,

Would any of you Totara gurus have any idea or suggestion about assigning a default language pack to a learner based on either a location or specific audience criteria?

I am currently building a dashboard for an audience in Italy and ideally would like to have the interface default to Italian for learners that self-register in our system and choose Italy as their country.

I know that there is an admin setting that can be set to detect the browser language (and that might ultimately the way to go) and set the language pack accordingly but am just wondering if there are any other use cases/ solutions out there in the community.

Any suggestions are very much appreciated.

Have a great day,

Rebecca

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Hi Rebecca

There is a setting preferred language that sets the user's language.

The url for this is yoursiteurl/user/language.php?id=2&course=1 once this is saved then this will apply whenever the user logs in. This url could be added to the main menu to make it visible

Theoretically the language auto-detect should work assuming the user's browser is in the same language as they use in Totara.

regards

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Hello Craig,

thank you for the info.

The way it looks, the language auto-detect tool works beautifully for the login page, but once the learner logs in the language reverts back to the default language.

I will definitely take a look at the link you gave me :).

Thanks so much- and have a great day,

Rebecca

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Hi Rebecca, did you find a solution for this? I am looking to do exactly what you initially asked - apply a language to a group of users based on Audience membership,

Thanks, Gareth

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hi Gareth

I tested language autodetect and it does override the default language

The audience isn't able to change the language of users. A possible workaround is to export the details of users from the audience members report

Use this file to upload users to update the details of the lang field for the users.with the setting Fill in missing from file and defaults which Adds data in the existing user account with data provided in the uploaded file if the field is empty (does not already contain data), and fills in the default values for existing user details when no data is provided in the uploaded file.

regards

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HI Craig, thanks for the swift reply! will bear the user upload method in mind ! sounds like a great solution , regards

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Hello Gaz,

I ultimately resorted to a custom registration page build our Implementation partner developed for us, so this topic fell off my radar- however, thank you so much for bringing this back to life.

I'm going to give Craig's suggestion a try as well- sounds like a great option!

Have a great weekend,

Rebecca

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Thanks for replying Rebecca! I think we are also going to go down the custom registration page route. Did your partner manage to set the users preferred language via a custom dropdown or custom field in the self reg page? Thanks, Gaz

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Hi Gaz,

Our setup utilizes a dropdown menu with preselected language. We also have a "match signup page using browser country" setting in which we can match a custom registration page with a specific country.

I'm happy to chat more via messaging in care you're interested in comparing use cases.

Have a great day,

Rebecca

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