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        • 2. Navigation in Appfarm Create
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    • Data modeling
      • Many-to-many relationships
      • Use naming conventions
      • Offline data handling
      • Data silos and White labelling
    • User interface
      • Manage a many-to-many relationship with a Chip group
      • Configure drag and drop
      • Build a drag-and-drop calendar
      • Design a responsive layout
      • Work with flexbox
      • Use Mapbox as a map layer
      • Understand charts
    • Logic and flow
      • Event Log Design
      • Configure advanced search
    • Themes and styling
      • Change the active theme
      • Add custom email templates
    • Enhance your app
      • Add deep links
      • Add keyboard shortcuts
      • Add link previews for social media
      • Apply SEO best practices
      • Change the active language
      • Generate a PDF from a Container
    • Integrations
      • Integrate with external systems
      • Integrate with OpenAI
      • Integrate with Google Analytics (GA4)
      • Configure a custom email account
      • Integrate with a payment provider
      • Integrate with Signicat
      • Integrate directly with an external database
      • Retrieve a Bearer token from Google Cloud
      • Fetch data from BigQuery
      • Retrieve access token from Microsoft Entra ID
    • Workflow automation
      • Update an OAuth 2.0 access token from a service
    • Authentication and access control
      • Add users and assign roles
      • Configure unauthenticated access
      • Implement third-party authentication
    • Security, testing and deployment
      • Add a custom domain
      • Install an app on a device
      • Get ready for Production
      • Optimize performance
      • Security checklist
      • Test and debug
    • Example apps
      • Create an Instagram clone
        • The end result
        • Designing the feed
        • Create new post
        • Add a like-button
        • Add comment-functionality
  • Solution administration
    • Subscription and billing
    • Dedicated tier benefits
    • Guide to GDPR
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      • How you can protect your clients’ data
      • Glossary
    • Appfarm and the EU AI Act
  • Policies
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By default an app will display the text and apply the formatting settings for the . To set a different language you need to run an , either automatically or triggered by the user, that contains the . The selected language is stored in the Active Language.

Step 1

Add a Select component to the UI with Value bound to App Variables.Active Language. In the app, the drop-down list will be populated with the that you have added to your solution and the active language will be selected.

Step 2

Use the On Value Change event handler of the Select component to run a new action. In that action, add the . Set the Language from data property to App Variables.Active Language. Now, when a new selection is made from the drop-down in the UI, the active language will be applied to the app for that user.

Note that this configuration will not store the user's selection for future sessions. To do that, you might want to store their preference in an object attached to their user. Then, you can run an action using the with and Language from data bound to the object class property where you have the preference stored.

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