Catalogs in other languages

Offer your catalogs in Spanish, French and German as well as English. Visitors get their browser’s language and can switch; part names are translated where your price list has them.

Choose your languages#

1. In the console, open Settings, then Languages.
2. Tick the languages to offer: English, Spanish, French, German.
3. Choose which one to show when a visitor’s browser language isn’t one of them.
4. Save. Catalogs use it the next time they’re opened.

What visitors see#

A visitor gets their browser’s language when you offer it, otherwise your default. A language menu above the parts list lets them switch, and the catalog remembers their choice. Everything the catalog itself says is translated: the parts list, the part details, requests and orders, serial numbers, kits, bulletins, warranty claims, machine registration and maintenance, step by step, the explode slider, the 3D tools, measuring and the view cube.

To set the language yourself, add lang="es" to the <assembly-atlas> tag on your site, or &lang=es to a hosted catalog link. A visitor’s own choice still wins.

Emails to owners#

Owners and warranty claimants get their emails in the language they used the catalog in: the link to confirm their machines, maintenance reminders, bulletins you email them, warranty receipts and your answer, and the page they land on when they stop the emails. If they later use the catalog in another language, their emails follow. What you wrote yourself (a bulletin, a maintenance task, your note on a claim) is sent as you wrote it. Emails to your own team stay in English.

Your part names#

Part names, descriptions and kit names are translated only where you give the translation, in your price list: add columns named Name (es) and Description (es), and the same with fr or de. Download template includes them for the languages you offer. A part without a translation shows its name as it is in the catalog, so nothing is ever guessed or machine-translated.

What you write in the console (bulletins, maintenance tasks, warranty terms) and the step-by-step notes from the editor show as you wrote them.