Localization with the translation workbench

Another aspect of administering Salesforce is translating it into the local language of the user. Salesforce fully supports 18 languages and 17 end user languages. We can easily translate the entire app into one of the supported languages; however, if we need to localize the app in a custom language not available in the list, we use the translation workbench to manually translate it.

The Translation Workbench allows us to specify languages that we want to translate, assign translators to languages, create translations for an app, and override labels and translations from managed packages. Everything from custom picklist values to custom fields can be translated into the language.

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