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Turn an Excel workbook (or Google Sheet) into a multi-user web app — forms, validation, lookups, import/export and more.

Multi-language support

Sheetward supports multiple languages on three levels — from the platform itself down to your app's data. The picture below shows what each level covers and who maintains it.

1Sheetward workspace
Provided by Sheetward

Built in, in every supported language — nothing to maintain

Workspace UISign-inAdmin consoleUser GuideKnowledge HubAI Support Assistant
2App UI
App Owner

Your app's own text — maintained in the application specification workbook (Excel / Google Sheet)

Translation_Field labelsValidation messagesDashboard widgets
3Data
App Owner

Master data in each viewer's language — language columns in the workbook's lookup sheets

List_Master-data descriptionsDropdown values

Level 1 ships with Sheetward: the workspace interface, sign-in, Admin console, User Guide, Knowledge Hub and AI support assistant are available in every supported language — nothing to maintain. Levels 2 and 3 are owned by the App Owner and live in the application specification workbook (Excel or Google Sheet) — the same workbook that defines the app: the app's text in the Translation_ sheet, master-data descriptions as language columns in the List_ sheets.

How an app gets its additional languages — two decisions, then content:

  1. The workspace admin chooses the workspace's additional languages under Admin console → Languages (English is always on). Example: the admin turns on three additional languages — German, Japanese and Arabic.
  2. The App Owner chooses the app's languages from those the workspace offers, in the App languages step when creating or changing the app. Example: this app offers two of the three — German and Japanese.
  3. The App Owner maintains the content for the chosen languages in the workbook — field labels, validation messages and dashboard text in the Translation_ sheet; master-data descriptions in the List_ sheets — and uploads the revised workbook. The app now speaks its new languages.
English is always available. Anyone whose language an app doesn't offer simply sees it in English — and each person picks their own interface language at sign-in or in Display settings, independent of what others use.

How many additional languages an app may offer depends on the workspace's plan — see the Languages meter in the Admin console.

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