So i am trying to do a survey test in English and Spanish. Everything is working great EXCEPT for the expression manager helper. I put in custom text some time ago under the "DETECT ANY VIOLATIONS OF MANDATORY RULES" section where it says, "Please answer this question to continue" if they try to skip a mandatory question. The thing is, i don't see anywhere in the em_manager_helper.php file where multiple languages can be used.

The bottom line is that i want the Spanish version of my test survey to give all of these kinds of violation errors in Spanish instead of English. Any help?

Shouldn't you be able to customize each of these error messages in the interface and the translation interface? I don't think it is necessary to hack any of the standard error messages in Limesurvey.

I don't see where i can change it in the 'interface'...can you direct me to the proper place?

Where do you want to use language in Expression Manager , what place ?

Currently : use
But : where did you want different sentence depend on language ? And what version did you use ?

By 'Expression Manager Helper' i mean this file: application/helpers/expressions/em_manager_helper.php
It looks like when a question is 'mandatory', if the respondent tries to move past it without answering they get a message: "Please answer question to continue". The problem is that it comes up in English even when it is a Spanish (es) survey.

The same issue is happening in this file: application/helpers/qanda_helper.php with a dialog box that pops up in English even with the Spanish survey...with the verbiage 'Please answer the question(s) to continue'

The code for the popup dialog box in qanda_helper.php looks like this:

// TMSW Validation -> EM
function mandatory_popup($ia, $notanswered=null)
{

//This sets the mandatory popup message to show if required
//Called from question.php, group.php or survey.php
if ($notanswered === null) {unset($notanswered);}
if (isset($notanswered) && is_array($notanswered)) //ADD WARNINGS TO QUESTIONS IF THEY WERE MANDATORY BUT NOT ANSWERED
{
global $mandatorypopup, $popup;
//POPUP WARNING
if (!isset($mandatorypopup) && ($ia[4] == 'T' || $ia[4] == 'S' || $ia[4] == 'U'))
{
$popup=gT("Please enter some text for the question(s) to continue.");
$mandatorypopup="Y";
}else
{
$popup=gT("Please answer the question(s) to continue.");
$mandatorypopup="Y";
}
return array($mandatorypopup, $popup);
}
else
{
return false;
}
}

The code for the em_manager_helper.php is ...

//////////////////////////////////////////////
// DETECT ANY VIOLATIONS OF MANDATORY RULES //
//////////////////////////////////////////////
$qmandViolation = false; // assume there is no mandatory violation until discover otherwise
$mandatoryTip = '';
if ($qrel && !$qhidden && ($qInfo == 'Y'))
{
$mandatoryTip = "<strong><br /><span class='errormandatory'>".$LEM->gT('Please answer this question to continue.').'. ';
switch ($qInfo)
{
case 'M':
case 'P':
case '!': //List - dropdown
case 'L': //LIST drop-down/radio-button list
// If at least one checkbox is checked, we're OK
if (count($relevantSQs) > 0 && (count($relevantSQs) == count($unansweredSQs)))
{
$qmandViolation = true;
}
if (!($qInfo == '!' || $qInfo == 'L'))
{
$mandatoryTip .= $LEM->gT('Please check at least one item.');
}
if ($qInfo=='Y')
{
$qattr = isset($LEM->qattr[$qid]) ? $LEM->qattr[$qid] : array();
if (isset($qattr) && trim($qattr) != '') {
$othertext = trim($qattr);
}
else {
$othertext = $LEM->gT('Other:');
}
$mandatoryTip .= "<br />\n".sprintf($this->gT("If you choose '%s' please also specify your choice in the accompanying text field."),$othertext);
}
break;
case 'X': // Boilerplate can never be mandatory
case '*': // Equation is auto-computed, so can't violate mandatory rules
break;
case 'A':
case 'B':
case 'C':
case 'Q':
case 'K':
case 'E':
case 'F':
case 'J':
case 'H':
case ';':
case '1':
// In general, if any relevant questions aren't answered, then it violates the mandatory rule
if (count($unansweredSQs) > 0)
{
$qmandViolation = true; // TODO - what about 'other'?
}
$mandatoryTip .= $LEM->gT(' ').'.';
break;
case ':':
$qattr = isset($LEM->qattr[$qid]) ? $LEM->qattr[$qid] : array();
if (isset($qattr) && $qattr == 1)
{
// Need to check whether there is at least one checked box per row
foreach ($LEM->q2subqInfo[$qid] as $sq)
{
if (!isset($_SESSION[$LEM->sessid][$sq]) || $_SESSION[$LEM->sessid][$sq])
{
$rowCount=0;
$numUnanswered=0;
foreach ($sgqas as $s)
{
if (strpos($s, $sq."_") !== false) // Test complete subquestion code (#09493)
{
++$rowCount;
if (array_search($s,$unansweredSQs) !== false) {
++$numUnanswered;
}
}
}
if ($rowCount > 0 && $rowCount == $numUnanswered)
{
$qmandViolation = true;
}
}
}
$mandatoryTip .= $LEM->gT('Please check at least one box per row').'.';
}
else
{
if (count($unansweredSQs) > 0)
{
$qmandViolation = true; // TODO - what about 'other'?
}
$mandatoryTip .= $LEM->gT(' ').'.';
}
break;
case 'R':
if (count($unansweredSQs) > 0)
{
$qmandViolation = true; // TODO - what about 'other'?
}
$mandatoryTip .= $LEM->gT('Please rank all items').'.';
break;
case 'O': //LIST WITH COMMENT drop-down/radio-button list + textarea
$_count=0;
for ($i=0;$i<count($unansweredSQs);++$i)
{
if (preg_match("/comment$/",$unansweredSQs[$i])) {
continue;
}
++$_count;
}
if ($_count > 0)
{
$qmandViolation = true;
}
break;
default:
if (count($unansweredSQs) > 0)
{
$qmandViolation = true;
}
break;
}
$mandatoryTip .= "</span></strong>\n";
}

Last version of LimeSurvey ? If not : version + buil number.

If yes : a way to reproduce it ? A little lss file to report the bug ?

Stangely i don't found this sentence in translate.limesurvey.org/projects/limesurvey-25/es/default/ bu spanish seems to be at 100%

A variation of these if conditions solved the issue...

{if(LANG=="en","String in english","")}
{if(LANG=="fr","Phrase en français","")}

Thank you!