When survey have only ONE langage, there are no reason to have problem

Helas Denis !:
Case 1: you are using a LS platform and you set french as default language because you're french and 90% of your surveys are in french... One day (or one night) you're going too fast, and setting an english one you choose french as default (because it's late or you're working like a machine)...!
Result: tips, alerts etc. in french...

Case 2: You have a more than 50 items french survey (working like a charm) with conditions, asessments and a lot of funny other stuffs and you need the same in english (only english :lol: )...
I think it could be more rapid to try to change the default language and translate questions, answers, etc...

Ben/

benitov wrote:

When survey have only ONE langage, there are no reason to have problem

Helas Denis !:
Case 1: ...
Case 2: ...

Ben/

I think you don't understand what i mean.

I mean : there are no reason to have a problem to change the default langage of a survey in phpMyAdmin or in export/import lss file if survey have only ONE langage.

because it's late or you're working like a machine

I never working like a machine

...autant pour moi! :whistle:

DenisChenu wrote:

benitov wrote:

When survey have only ONE langage, there are no reason to have problem

Helas Denis !:
Case 1: ...
Case 2: ...

Ben/

I think you don't understand what i mean.

I mean : there are no reason to have a problem to change the default langage of a survey in phpMyAdmin or in export/import lss file if survey have only ONE langage.

because it's late or you're working like a machine

I never working like a machine

Folks, what would you advise I use to open/edit that .lss?

Thanks!

It's ok

mas_carpone wrote: Folks, what would you advise I use to open/edit that .lss?
Thanks!

See Ben's post from 3 years ago:

"3) open one of this file with a text editor".

Ok thanks!

Note that when editing an .lss file to change the base language of a survey (say from english to french) you need to change (at least) 2 expressions: [en] to [fr] and <language>en</language> to <language>fr</language>

(Not sure whether there are other expressions in addition to those 2 to be edited)

Just a note - the base language change via updating the language column in lime_surveys doesn´t seem to work for limesurvey 3.5 anymore. It will break the survey.

The replacement of [{lang}] and <language>{lang}</language> works like a charm, though.

Hi All,

I have the same question for a live survey where i have 2 languages Greek (set as default) and English. I would like to switch them so the English will be the base language. My main goal is to show the Response filters in teh statistics in English as theya re currently shown in the main language.

Thank you in advance.

Cheers
Daniel

Hello,

I've got more or less the same problem: i need to change the base language to spanish of a survey which is in catalan. I've tryed two ways:

1. Creating a new survey, setting the language to spanish and then importing the groups of questions from the original survey to the new one. The problem here is that Lime indicates that this action can't be done because the base language of the two surveys must be the same (which it is a bit paradoxical, because i'm not translating the survey; this is something that perhaps could be fixed).

2. Doing as Ben_V says:

1) export the survey as .lss file
2) Make a copy in case of trouble !
3) open one of this file with a text editor
4) Replace all expressions related with current language with format <![CDATA[XX]]>

for example replace :
<![CDATAb]ca[/b]>
with your choosen language
<![CDATAb]es[/b]>



I have also changed the language codifications for the email templates and so on (<span lang="ES") . I have edited in LibreOffice, saved it as an lss (algo as a .txt) and then uploaded it to Lime again. I've got no problem with the importation, but when i try to open the survey i can't, and there appears a message saying '500 internal server error. Selecter Surveys language not found'. It's strange, because i've selected the code 'es' for the spanish language from another survey that i have created in spanish, i exported it in lss and checked if it was the right code.

Any clues? I attatch the original export in lss from the catalan survey and the modifyed one in spanish, if anyone could check.

Thank you very much!!

Hi,
here you get an *.lss with base language "Spanish".

I had to remove a lot of strange characters (which character set did you use in LibreOffice?).

So here you are:


Joffm

Hello Joffm, thank you very much for your help.

I use Libe Office oppening the files with the character set UTF8, the same i'm using when i work with the L.O. calc on .csv / .vv files (and i've never had problems before with UTF8...). I notticed the strange characters but i thought that when uploading the file again to the web it yould be solved.

I've checked your file and it works perfectly. Thank you VERY MUCH again for your help.

Cheers!