Forms : Display the Jira Form in users preferred language
Platform Notice: Cloud - This article applies to Atlassian products on the cloud platform.
Summary
This article outlines how you can effectively utilize Jira's native functionality to showcase form content in a user's preferred language.
Environment
Jira Service Management Cloud
Jira Automation Cloud
Cause
Presently, the selection of a single language is the only option available on the Jira forms settings page. It is not possible to make it dynamically adapt to each user's language preference.
It is natively not possible to display Jira Forms as per the Language Preferences of the User or the Language Support under Project settings, we have a feature request present for the same JSDCLOUD-11018 - Forms: Support multiple languages in the same form
Solution
We can leverage the Jira Forms ability to add sections as a workaround, where the user gets an option to select from the drop-down his preferred language and thereby the associated content is displayed
- Review this documentation to learn about Jira Forms ability to divide the form structure into sections
Let us create a Form by navigating to the Project Settings > Form
From the navigation on the left, select Project Settings> Forms.
Select Create form > Create blank.
Enter a name for your form, for this example let us name it: Multi-Language Form
Select Add Fields and choose a drop-down field type. ( This is to give us options to select the preferred language )
- Let us label it : What is your preferred language ?
- In the Choices Add : English and Spanish ( as options )