To make your community more attractive, you can translate its name and description into your users' preferred languages. A multi-language community further enables you to deliver certain content in multiple languages, ensuring that users can interact with your community in the language they feel most at ease with.

To provide a community name and description in multiple languages, you first need to acquire and activate the feature. Learn more in Activating additional multi-language features.

Activate languages for a community

1. Go to your community
2. In the Options box, select Settings
3. Select Activate translations
   • If you've already activated translations earlier, select   
4. Choose a default language from your activated platform languages. Once the default language is set, it cannot be changed. The default language determines the language in which a user sees the community and content if it's not provided in their preferred language
5. Check additional languages in which you want to provide the community. If needed, you can edit these later to add or remove a language
6. Select Apply

After activating multi-language for a community, the Name and Description fields are highlighted with the flag of the current language version to signify that they are available for translation. You can now provide translations for these in the other languages.

Add translations

1. In the Settings, select the language selector
2. Select another language
   • When you create a community in a new language for the first time, you rea asked if you would like to copy the default language's information over to the new language. This makes it easier to remember the information in the default language for quick translation
3. Define a translation for the name and description. All other settings remain the same for the community regardless of the language the user views it in
4. Select Save to save and exit the settings, or repeat the above steps for another language

After adding translations for your community, you can also provide the content of certain apps in your selected languages. Learn more in Translating apps into other languages.