Language

xBit can show its screens in English or Spanish. The language is one setting for the whole system: every user, the sign-in page and the emails xBit sends use it.

Option Language
English (United States) English, the default
Español (España) Spanish

There is no per-user language.


Change the language

Only Admins can change it.

  1. Go to Admin > About / Settings, tab General.
  2. Choose a language in Language.

The change saves straight away and the page reloads in the new language.

  • Everyone else sees the new language on their next page.
  • The system log records it, for example General > Language Updated From en_US to es_ES.
  • xBit rebuilds the built-in report templates and Content Library blocks in the new language, in the background. In Report Builder they show Regenerating Report... until it's done.
  • A ? next to Language appears once you have your own fields, report templates or Content Library blocks. It reminds you that only xBit's built-in fields are translated.

New systems can also start in Spanish: the installer asks for a language code (en_US or es_ES). See the Installation Guide.


Switch back from Spanish

In Spanish, the menus and setting names are Spanish too.

About / Settings in Spanish, with the Administrador menu and the Idioma setting marked

  1. Administrador: open it and choose Acerca de / Configuración.
  2. Idioma: choose English (United States).


What is translated

Anything xBit ships with is translated. Anything your agency typed or named stays as it was entered.

Spanish expense details: a built-in expense type translated, an agency task type, the date and the notes left as entered

  1. A built-in list value: Labor shows as Mano de obra.
  2. A value your agency added to a list stays as entered.
  3. Dates keep your date format.
  4. Text users typed is never translated.
Translated Not translated
Menus, pages, buttons, messages and the sign-in page Fields and choices you added in Form Builder, and built-in fields you renamed
Built-in fields, their choices and Table View column names List values you added in List Manager
Built-in list values, such as case types, status types, locations and expense types Report templates and Content Library blocks you created or edited
Built-in report templates and blocks, the Lab Submission Receipt, and the Memo Report Case and evidence data, memos, notes and anything else users typed
Email notifications Audit log descriptions, which stay in English
The date picker and the text editor toolbar The Issues menu and its reports, which are English only

To show your own fields in the new language, rename them in Form Builder. For your own list values, edit them in List Manager.


Dates and times

The language doesn't change how dates and times look. They follow Select Timezone, Select Date Format and Time Format in About / Settings.

The one exception is the date the Memo Report was printed, which is written out in words in the system language.