User specific language
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- UpdatedJan 30, 2025
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- Yokohama
- Localization
The user has several choices for identifying the language to be used for the instance, as described here.
To enable user-specific languages, first activate the I18N Translation plugins for the desired languages.
- Language picker at login: If user-specific language is enabled, users see a choice list on the login page to select their language. To control display of the choice list on the login page, navigate to and use the property Show the language select box on the login page to allow the user to specify the language they would like to be logged in with.
- Language picker in the user menu (Next Experience UI): Users can select their language from the user menu by navigating to . The user menu is located in the Next Experience Unified Navigation.
- Language picker in the System Settings window (Core UI): Users can select their language in the General tab of the System settings window. Access this window by clicking the gear icon on the right edge of the banner.
- Language setting on the user table: If you have users that require a different language in addition to the global language, you can specify a language for them in . If the Language field isn't already on the form, you can configure the form and add it.
The Language field in the User [sys_user] table overrides the default global language for that user's sessions.

Note: Setting the language for the system guest user sets the language for both the login page
and all users without a user role.