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  • About Ushahidi
  • Overview of Ushahidi Platform [Mzima]
    • Technical Specifications
  • 1. Installing Ushahidi Platform
  • 2. Setting up a deployment
  • 3. Configuring your deployment
    • 3.1 Accessing your deployment
    • 3.2 General Settings
    • 3.3 Surveys
    • 3.4 Data Sources
      • 3.4.1 Email
      • 3.4.2 Gmail
      • 3.4.3 Vonage(formerly NextMo)
      • 3.4.4 SMSSync
      • 3.4.5 Twilio
      • 3.4.6 Twitter
      • 3.4.7 Africa's Talking
    • 3.5 Categories
  • 4. Managing People on your deployment
    • 4.1 Roles
    • 4.2 Users
  • 5. Modes for visualizing and managing data on your deployment
    • 5.1 Map View
    • 5.2 Data view
    • 5.3 Activity view
    • 5.4 Data managing functionalities shared among views
  • 6. Managing Data in your deployment
    • 6.1 Viewing Posts
    • 6.2 Filtering and Sorting Posts
    • 6.3 Adding Posts
    • 6.4 Editing Posts
    • 6.5 Translating Posts
    • 6.6 Publishing Posts
    • 6.7 Deleting Posts
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    • 6.8 Importing Data
    • 6.9 Exporting and Tagging Data
      • 6.9.1 Exporting Data
      • 6.9.2 Tagging Data - HDX integration
  • 7. Analysing Data on your deployment
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    • 7.1 Saved Searches
    • 7.2 Collections
  • 8. Additional Links
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  1. 6. Managing Data in your deployment

6.5 Translating Posts

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Last updated 1 year ago


On this page, you will find information about how to translate posts into other available languages.

The post translation function is only available to admins or registered users with adequate permissions. This means that non registered users cannot translate posts. To translate a post:


Select a post from your data view.


Click on the edit icon on the post cards or post details. This will load the post editor form on the right pane of your page, where you’ll be able to edit any of the content.


Select language to translate post to:

  • In the upper right corner of the post editor form, you will see a dropdown with the default language that your deployment is currently in.

  • Click on the dropdown to select another language, notice the change of language on the text/body of the post editor form.

  • Click save/submit once your edit is done.

Note: The languages that will be available on the drop down list will be the ones you selected while translating your survey

  • You will be redirected to a page with the translatable content in the default language and fields where you can add your translations.

  • On the empty fields, translate the fields’ content into the chosen language e.g in the above image the default language is English and the added language is French.

  • Click Save at the upper or bottom right hand side of the screen when all is done.

  • To see translations, at the upper left corner of the page, click on the dropdown menu and see the available languages that the postcard can be viewed in, click on the language you prefer to view in.

(From our example above we translated ours to Spanish)

Select a post from your data view - highlighted: "Test Opinion Post"
Click on the edit icon on the post cards or post details.
Click on the dropdown to select another language
Drop down list displaying the languages will selected while translating your survey
Edit Survey page with the translatable content in the default language and fields where you can add your translations.
Click on the dropdown menu and see the available languages that the postcard can be viewed in
Spanish language selected from the drop down list.
Click on the edit icon on the post cards or post details.
Click on the dropdown to select another language
Drop down list displaying the languages will selected while translating your survey
Edit Survey page with the translatable content in the default language and fields where you can add your translations.
Click on the dropdown menu and see the available languages that the postcard can be viewed in
Spanish language selected from the drop down list.