User Localization Settings

*** Note: Multi-currency no longer requires feature activation (it can be enabled through the user interface) for most orgs, as of the Winter 18 release.

41 Responses to “User Localization Settings”

  1. mattl August 25, 2017 at 2:43 pm #

    Hi John,

    Language settings just allows you to add any laguages you need whereas the actual user langauge is changed in user setup?

    • mattl August 25, 2017 at 2:44 pm #

      excuse the spelling

    • JohnCoppedge August 25, 2017 at 2:47 pm #

      Translation workbench (search translation in setup)… lol np. Check out the Grammarly chrome plugin, super helpful for typos 🙂

      • mattl August 26, 2017 at 12:52 pm #

        Thanks John,

        I have added my user profile as a translator and added German as the language to translate. Two questions:

        1.) Where do I find the “view setup and configuration” permission (cannot find this anywhere) ?
        2.) Under translate setup it is showing that I have no data for available for this view? What does this mean?

        Thanks

        matt

        • JohnCoppedge August 26, 2017 at 12:55 pm #

          1- profile or permission set (if you’re a system admin you will have it)
          2-you can only translate custom components (e.g. custom fields) – without seeing what you are looking at it might mean that you have selected something that doesn’t have any translatable components. Try an object with custom fields/picklists?

  2. JShrewey August 12, 2017 at 9:21 pm #

    Hey there, loving this guide. Thank you.

    Quick question on currencies, would multiple currencies enable converting a quote from what the opportunity was assigned as to another currency?

    • JohnCoppedge August 15, 2017 at 2:09 pm #

      I would have to test that out to see if it worked correctly – in theory, it should be possible… the opportunity and quote are both different records. Each record has its own currency setting which then the line items would inherit. The tricky piece would be the mechanism that syncs the information between the two…

  3. geethasalem May 31, 2017 at 4:03 pm #

    Posted earlier query about language settings it is working for me.
    Thanks,
    Geetha

  4. geethasalem May 31, 2017 at 3:54 pm #

    Hi,

    In my developer Org, I changed the Default Language in Locale settings under company information, but the standard fields/objects are not translated.
    Changed the language field on the user record as well.

    Also, manually I enabled end-user language and then through Translation workbench I created for custom fields(picklists) but these changes are also not reflected.
    Can you tell if I need to any additional settings?
    Thanks

    • JohnCoppedge June 1, 2017 at 9:08 pm #

      If you change the language for a fully translated language then your standard fields should automatically update. E.g. set the user language (not locale) to French. I would start there – it sounds like this isn’t working… just to verify that you are logged in as the user that you changed the language for (e.g. yourself)?

  5. jcohen2014 March 20, 2017 at 7:37 am #

    Hi John – I am confused. When I made Hebrew one of the displayed languages the Help and Setup menus were translated, but the top of the language settings says:
    Enable end-user languages – Help and Setup are not translated in end-user languages
    Hungarian, Polish, Czech, Turkish, Indonesian, Romanian, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Hebrew, Greek, Bulgarian, English (UK), Arabic, Slovak, Portuguese (European), Croatian, Slovene

    This mentions Hebrew.

    • JohnCoppedge March 20, 2017 at 1:11 pm #

      Just tried this myself and noticed the same thing. This be that the language is not fully translated? (e.g. some terms are still in english)

      • JohnCoppedge March 20, 2017 at 1:20 pm #

        Have never seen Salesforce with a right-to-left language before, that was cool. I suspect that the help pages may not be translated as well (wasn’t able to find where the menu was, as I don’t read Hebrew)

  6. malbert January 9, 2017 at 5:41 pm #

    The “putting it all together” slide (as a graphic reference) would be a great addition to this page.

  7. sfdc_guru May 11, 2016 at 4:42 am #

    Hi,

    In my developer Org, I changed the Default Language in Locale settings under company information, but the standard fields/objects are not translated.

    Also, manually I enabled end-user language and then through Translation workbench I created for custom fields(picklists) but these changes are also not reflected.
    Can you tell if I need to any additional settings?
    Thanks

  8. jcrook@jdcrook.com March 31, 2016 at 8:40 pm #

    John,
    I am wondering how to handle a global company with the following scenario:
    Corp hqts located in San Francisco
    Offices in multiple other countries and time zones
    When setting business hours (as a base level of security) does the admin need to set up separate divisions and a separate profile for each?
    Thanks!

    • JohnCoppedge June 13, 2016 at 4:24 pm #

      You would only need to define login hours for separate profiles if you wanted to limit when those users could log in- if you want to prevent login outside of working hours at each location then you would need a separate profile for each time zone.

  9. MKlobe March 27, 2016 at 11:37 pm #

    What would be the point of using dated conversion rates over just a fixed rate? Just for more accurate reporting when the time comes?

    • JohnCoppedge April 10, 2016 at 11:45 pm #

      Right. Imagine your cost is in usd but the customer purchased in eur- the conversion rate would have to be accurate to get a correct forecast

  10. marshal.hakikat@gmail.com March 16, 2016 at 7:03 pm #

    Hi John..Please help
    as different blog has different ans and My exam date is very near..

    The Marketing team at UC wants to send an email to each lead received from its website.the country of incoming lead should determine the language of the email that will be sent to the lead.how can a system Admin automate this process?

    a)create an email template for each language and an assignment rule to send the appropriate template

    b)create a single email template and use translation workbench to translate and send the appropriate template

  11. pointing_up March 2, 2016 at 3:06 am #

    I haven’t watched John’s video yet, but I have read the comments. There is a way to slow down a video – see: How To Play YouTube Videos In Slow Motion – Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOjlX1Frw60

    Hope this helps!

  12. mbechaa January 30, 2016 at 9:43 am #

    I’m glad to see that I’m not the only one who finds this Video very very fast (I’m French). Don’t forget that there are people not very fluent with the language you speak 😉 I’d have appreciated finding a video across sreens showing the configuration of all this (maybe this is already present in other next topics of your blog…). Anyhow, many thanks for all the very interesting and globally well made content we find on your Blog.

    • JohnCoppedge January 31, 2016 at 5:29 pm #

      I recorded most of these videos before I had much training experience- if/when I do a re-record I will definitely pace a bit slower 🙂

  13. coolpranu@yahoo.com December 19, 2015 at 5:30 am #

    This video is definitely fast, especially the first half.

  14. shandoid December 15, 2015 at 6:44 pm #

    Hi John
    Can we switch a fully supported language back and forth? Eg Spanish to English to Spanish and so on.

  15. Jeffrey Tanzman August 11, 2015 at 12:08 am #

    Indeed informative but a bit quick.

  16. pbeck@rei.com July 29, 2015 at 5:06 pm #

    Very informative, but a bit too quick. I had to watch twice to make sure I caught all the detail. A pause between topics would be very helpful.

  17. sksood May 18, 2015 at 2:26 pm #

    I saw the video till the end. Seems to work for me.

    Thanks
    Sanjay

  18. Rosa Attra December 29, 2014 at 9:39 pm #

    The video was still cut-off at the end. Can you please validate the issue has been fixed?

    • JohnCoppedge January 6, 2015 at 2:39 am #

      Do you see the thank you screen at the end? I don’t see a problem with the video…

  19. JohnCoppedge October 6, 2014 at 5:14 pm #

    I went for concise… maybe a bit too much so 🙂

  20. Lisa Seyler October 3, 2014 at 9:14 pm #

    Extremely informative – no fluff here. You did a great job surfacing the components that matter.

  21. Lisa Seyler October 3, 2014 at 9:14 pm #

    Extremely informative – no fluff here. You did a great job surfacing the components that matter.

  22. David Dal Pos April 16, 2014 at 6:35 pm #

    Very very fast. Suggest slowing it way down as I had to listen to whole thing 3 times and pause it to let it sink in. Just a suggestion!

    • Berglind Heath-Smith September 8, 2014 at 4:46 pm #

      I’d agree – a bit on the quick side – could slow down by a third please, leaving a pause for breath perhaps between slides 😉

    • eddiegcs July 15, 2016 at 1:48 am #

      On YouTube if you click the gear gizmo (settings), you can usually adjust the speed of the video to be faster (e.g 1.25x faster, 1.5x faster or 2x faster) or slower (0.5x speed or 0.25x speed). Hope that helps!!

  23. Ed Pawelec April 8, 2013 at 5:25 pm #

    This cut out after 57 seconds (User Localization Settings)

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