Change default language name in drop-down using translations in VOC Survey

By | October 30, 2017

Introduction:

Since the introduction of Voice of the Customer surveys in Dynamics CRM 2016, it has enabled organizations to offer feedback surveys to customers and gain insights about their products and services directly from customers.

Note:

To open Voice of the Customer survey link in a specific language using translations, refer this article.

Changing default language of Translations in Voice of the Customer Survey:

Recently, we had a business requirement to enable multi-language in ‘Customer Satisfaction Survey’ of VOC. The survey had translations available in two languages, English (United States) and French as seen in the screenshot below;

Change default language drop-down name using translations in VOC Survey

We wanted to change English language drop-down text from ‘English (United States)’ to ‘English’.

When we create the survey, the Default language field of survey entity is set according to the user’s language. This Default language field of survey entity is not added to survey form by default.

Change default language drop-down name using translations in VOC Survey

In our case, the user’s language is set to English, so when we created the ‘Customer Satisfaction Survey’ of VOC, the Default Language field is set to English.

As a result, the survey has default language set as “en-us”.

Change default language drop-down name using translations in VOC Survey

This results in the English language labeled as ‘English (United States)’.

Change default language drop-down name using translations in VOC Survey

To avoid this, we can set Default Language field as blank and then change the ‘en-us’ in the translation.xml file to ‘en’ (i.e. “en” is iso_639-1 code for the English language).

Change default language drop-down name using translations in VOC Survey

Change default language drop-down name using translations in VOC Survey

Change default language drop-down name using translations in VOC Survey

After making these changes and publishing the survey, the English language drop-down text changed from ‘English (United States)’ to ‘English’.

Change default language drop-down name using translations in VOC Survey

Hope this helps!

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