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Hi! When I use the new CF5, where can I translate the validation messages like 'Please enter a valid email.'? In this case I did use the Title field to show a custom message if the field is empty, but the e-mail is also validated on 'email' format and the validation message 'Please enter a valid email.' is shown. But I can't seem to figure out where to translate this. In the CF4 version there was a setting to select a language. Will this come back in CF5?

Hi jj135,

Enter some unique string in the field's Title box, like "REQUIRED_EMAIL", then go to the "Locales" tab and create 2 locales, one named "en_gb" and the other should have the language id of your language, say "fr_fr" for French, then enter this at the strings box:

REQUIRED_EMAIL=Please enter a valid email address

Regards,
Max

Hi Max, thanks. But what if I check for both 'not empty' and 'email format'? This will first check if the field is empty and display a message 'Should not be empty..' and when some text is entered it checks for a valid e-mail address. If not 'Should be a valid...'. Is it possible to translate both messages?

And just wondering: Why use the Locales when I can enter the translation in the title field? Or is this just to keep translation in the same place? Or are there more benefits from using the locales?

Hi jj135,

If you have only 1 translation/language then you can write the text in the title field directly, the locales is for more than 1 languages.

Only 1 message is supported when translated, I will try to add a feature to translate the core messages, but for now, you may set a message like "A valid email address is required", which gives both meanings!

Regards,
Max

Hi Max, thanks for your explanation. Your suggestion for a 'combined' message is a good one. I'll use that for now.

Kind regards,
Jip Jonker

I need to translate to Portuguese Brazil all the messages like "This Field is Required", "Please enter a valid email" etc.
Where can I find the tags or constants to write the translated messages (example: REQUIRED_EMAIL: Este campo é origatório)

Hi

I have the same problem with CF5
I translated in french error messages but not 'This Field is Required',

Thank you for your help

Hello,

You can translate validations messages using the "Title" box in your field settings, I have this explained in the 2nd post in this topic.

But starting from the next release (v5 RC6), you will be able to translate ALL messages by adding a "Load JavaScript" after the "HTML" action and enter the translations:

GValidtaion.errors.required = "test required custom message";
GValidtaion.errors.email = "test email message";

Regards,
Max

Hello!

This post has been very helpful to me 😉

I have a question. I'm very newbee at javascript and some joomla core isues. I'd like to know if is there any way to ask what language is active and use a structure "if .. then" in loadjavascript action. I mean something like
if [active language] is "es-es" then
GValidtaion.errors.required = "Campo requerido";
elseif [active language] is "pt-br" then
GValidtaion.errors.required = "blablabla";
endif

Thanks in advance!

That's not needed, you can instead do it this way:

in JS action:

GValidtaion.errors.required = "_REQUIRED_";

Then under the "Locales" tab, define all the languages you need, and translate the "_REQUIRED_" string there for each one!

Regards,
Max

Thank you very much for your fast answer.
It isn't work for me at the moment. I don't know what I'm doin wrong.
In locale tag I've tested "es-es" and "es-ES" cause i wasn't sure about right notation.

And in language strings I've tested this formats for __required__

#__required__# = "Campo obligatorio.";
"#__required__#" = "Campo obligatorio.";
#__required__# = Campo obligatorio.

In all cases loadjavascript action shows "__required__"

😢 🙄 🤨

Please try "es_es", and enter this in the "Language strings" box:

#__required__#=Campo obligatorio.