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Multi-language forms

Teamio translates your forms automatically, and patients can switch languages themselves while filling one out. Spanish (ES) and Russian (RU) are supported today.

Enable languages on a form

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  1. Open the form for editing.
  2. Select Form Configurations at the top of the builder, then scroll to the Translations section.
  3. Under Enable languages for this form:, tick the languages you want (ES Spanish, RU Russian). The sidebar notes: All form labels, placeholders, and options will be automatically translated when you save.
  4. Select Save Changes.

Fine-tune the wording

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Auto-translation handles labels, placeholders, and options. For the wrapper text you can override the machine translation per language, right in Form Configurations > Translations:

  • Headline (), Sub-Headline (), and Submit Button Text ().
  • A Manually edited pencil indicator marks fields you’ve overridden so they aren’t overwritten on the next translate.

Section headlines and sub-headlines have the same per-language fields in each Section Configuration.

Preview before sharing

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On the Edit Form header, Preview in Spanish / Preview in Russian buttons appear once extra languages are enabled. They open the patient-facing renderer (/preview-form/<id>?lang=xx) in a new tab so you can check the translation.

Patient-facing form rendered in Spanish with the language toggle in the header.

Auto-translation is good but not perfect — have a bilingual team member skim consent language once per form. (Untranslated tokens, like a [site_email] placeholder, render literally — fill those in via the per-language overrides.)

What the patient sees

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A Change language: dropdown (flag + language) sits in the form header; patients can switch at any time. Teamio picks the starting language in this order:

  1. a ?lang= parameter on the URL,
  2. the patient’s saved preference,
  3. the phone’s browser language,
  4. English.

The forms list shows ES / RU badges per form, and a submission carries a language badge when it wasn’t completed in English.

How staff read non-English submissions

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The submission detail view renders in the language the patient used — an ES submission shows Spanish labels with a language badge. Staff see the patient’s answers as entered; there is no automatic translation back to English. If you need the answers in English, a bilingual reviewer can read the Spanish render, or rely on the field values themselves (dates, numbers, and chart-mapped choices store language-independently).

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