Multi-language chat, announcements, etc

[wes]

How can Zapier or any other translation service be leverage to facilitate a multi-lingual chat (or post)?

Here’s a thought about the logic:

1. User posts message (Message Master list item created)
2. New Message Master triggers* translations (Message Translations)
3. User sees their translation (…/ Message Translations / [Language])

*Triggers is starred above because I’m not sure how to have the creation of a something trigger something else. Does Zapier allow for this functionality?

I look forward to seeing if (1) this is possible and (2) how it possible, or whether there are other solutions or barriers to consider. Thanks!

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Hi @wes , have you considered using Google Translate’s API service? I do use it for my social media app where I translate messages on the fly in several languages. I try to stay away from Zapier as much as possible as I don’t want a 3rd party solution added to my Adalo apps. Just a thought.

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I am happy to send some screenshots on how it is done with Google Translate API. Let me know

[wes]

That would be really helpful! Thanks

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You bet.
Here’s what I did for an app I have in which I have stories I automatically translate to several languages.

1- Database structure.
This is the view of a story.

• The body field captures the text of the current story
• The language field captures the language of the current story (more on that later)
• Then I have many localized fields to capture translations for Indonesian (id), French (fr), Arabic (ar), English (en) … and others
  
  

2- When a story is created:
As users create new stories, I run several actions as soon as users hit the create a story button.

• 2.a Unmask a Lottie Spinner
• 2.b Detect the language of the current story (API call to Google Translate’s Natural Language detection) - More information below
• 2.c Now that we know which language the story is, we run several translations (IN, FR, EN, AR, …) - More information below
• 2.d Create a new story feeding all fields - More below
• 2.e Send notifications to the current user’s followers
• 2.f Mask the Lottie Spinner

More info regarding 2.b (language detection)

This API call takes the current story input as an input to the call.

This is how I set up the API call:

This is where I pass the story input to the API

Note that the API Key is added to the URL endpoint - You can get yours as you create your Google Platform account and ask for a Google Translate API key.

The API will send back the detected language of the story.

Let’s move to 2.c
This is where you call the Google Translate API for each of your target languages.

Note that the API call take 3 fields. The text to translate, the source language (which is the result of the previous call - Thanks Adalo for making that result available), and the target language (fr for French in this case).

Here’s the structure of the API call:

The API call requires these 3 fields at a minimum to be able to work.

The API call send back the translation field which you can use to store in the DB

Last stop, 2.d.
You can run the Google Translate API call as many times you have target languages. You only need to change the target language to the google code of that language.

Now that you have everything done, all you have to do is create a Story object in the DB (in my case) i which you store all of your data.

There are some tips along the way that I haven’t described yet but I hope at least this will get you going and excited.

I also want to point out that I do the same thing when users:

• edit existing stories
• create comments (seme structure)
• edit existing comments

Let me know
Best and keep building.

[anon78309838]

Great stuff Matthieu! You should perhaps consider creating a new topic in the help and resources category on the forum with this info. I am certain a lot of makers would appreciate this knowledge!

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Will do @anon78309838
Thank you