Manage Language

Using eRaay, it’s fairly easy to implement an additional language to your survey questionnaire. English is the default language to set up your survey. However, once your questionnaire is finalized and published, you can add one or more languages to your survey. Implementation of a language in eRaay works as follows:
How it works:

• Choose the language from the dropdown and click on Add. Your language will be added to the list.
• Download Survey Questionnaire Template to local machine
• Upload the file with translated text against respective language
• You are all set when upload is done.

Preview button
You may click on the Preview Link to see how the Survey looks for that particular language.
Download Language Template
The user can also download the existing translations by clicking on the “Excel” button next to the preview button. This translation template provides the updated translation template along with filled in translation text for the specific language.
Download the questionnaire in a particular language
The user can also download the questionnaire in a particular language by clicking on the “Word” button next to the preview button.
eRaay Translation Overlay Instruction

1. eRaay survey translation file is an excel based template file where the source question information is provided and the user is expected to type or “copy and paste” the respective translation texts in the same file. The translation file is uploaded into eRaay platform in order to overlay translation.
2. The template file has following columns:
   1. QuestionID
   2. QuestionNumber
   3. Question
   4. QuestionDescription
   5. SectionHeader
   6. Answer
   7. Answer2
   8. Answer3
   9. Question_long
   10. QuestionDescription_lang
   11. SectionHeader_lang
   12. Answer_lang
   13. Answer2_lang
   14. Answer3_lang
3. No change should be made from column A to column H.
4. The translation text should be set as per the following:
   1. Translation text for column I goes into column I
   2. Translation text for column J goes into column J
   3. Translation text for column K goes into column K
   4. Translation text for column L goes into column L
   5. Translation text for column M goes into column M
   6. Translation text for column N goes into column N
5. For column L, the text pattern must be maintained. For example, if there is a value Male~Female exists in column F, then we should have “X~Y” like pattern in column L. The separator character tilde (~) must be maintained correctly. The same must be maintained for column M and column N.

Custom Messaging
eRaay has default error/validation messages that appear while the data is captured. In this section, you can set language specific error/validation messages.
How do I do it?
Click on the “Manage” button under the Manage message column in the particular language’s line item.

Language upload link (Guest)
Copy the Language upload Link for guests by clicking the first icon next to the Language Name.
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Please provide the project code, select the language and upload the translation file.
This is useful in scenarios when the translator can upload the translations without having access to the eRaay platform.

On screen Language Edit Link
Copy the on screen Language Edit Link by clicking the second icon next to the Language Name
Open the on screen Language Edit Link by clicking the third icon next to the Language Name
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This is another feature of eRaay where you can edit the translation directly on the scream. There is no need to upload.