Including Multiple Languages in a Template

If you have created a survey with several languages, you may wish to create export templates for more than one of the languages. Forsta Plus allows you to create a template for one language and then change only the language of the labels – you do not have to create new templates for each language. For this example, assume you have a survey using two languages; English and French, and your original template is to be in English.

1. Create a fixed-width template (Template1) in English, and make any changes required to the column positions in that template so that it matches your export order.

You now wish to generate a template with the same column positions but with the labels in French. Proceed as follows:

2. Duplicate Template1 and rename the duplicate to for example Template2.

Template2 now needs to be edited as follows:

3. In the template editor, fix the positions of the existing variables. To do this:
• Use Fix by > Position.
• Select Change All.
• Click Save.
4. Click the Import button in the blue bar above the 'Available Variables' (left) pane of the template editor.

A Confirmation box opens.

5. Click Yes to confirm the operation.
6. Go through the import process selecting the test/production database and the appropriate project.
7. On the Advanced Template Options screen, change the Schema Language to French. Do not change the other options (bitstring/spread, truncate open ends etc).
8. Click Finish.

The template generator task runs and a Confirmation box appears.

9. Click Replace so that existing variables are replaced by the variables in the newly generated template.

On the next screen you can go through the variables that will be replaced individually by using the Yes/No buttons, or select Replace All.

10. Click Save.

Template2 now contain French labels.