Translate the Public Portal Interface

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Agenda and Meeting Management Select Public Portals with Agenda Accessibility and Translation powered by DocAccess enabled have a Translate feature. When translation is engaged, you can quickly translate the Public Portal’s user interface into a commonly spoken language. This allows you to navigate both home and individual meeting pages in the languages you prefer. This article will show you how to engage the Translate feature.

Important Note

Your municipality or organization must have Agenda Accessibility and Translation powered by DocAccessAgenda Accessibility and Translation powered by DocAccess enabled for the Translate feature to be available.

Instructions

  1. Navigate to your municipality or organization’s Public Portal:

    An example Public Portal home page with the DocAccess integration enabled.

  2. Click the Translate button in the upper-right corner of the screen:

    The rectangular Translate button in the upper-right corner of an example Public Portal home screen.

  3. Select a language option in the dropdown list:

    The dropdown list of languages that appears when the Public Portal Translate button is clicked.

    Note:

    Dropdown is space limited, so you may not see your preferred language immediately. However, you can choose from a larger list of languages after an initial selection is made. To see the expanded list of nearly 250 languages, you will first need make a selection in the dropdown as shown in step 3. Once translation is engaged, you can click the selected language in the Google Translate bar and choose another language.

    The Translated to menu in the Google Translate bar of a Public Portal with translation engaged.

  4. Your Public Portal's interface will update to display text in the selected language:

    An example Public Portal home page translated into French.

  5. Navigate the Public Portal as desired:

    An example Public Portal Meeting Overview page translated into French.

  6. To end translation and return the Public Portal to its original language, click the Show original button:

    The gray, rectangular Show original button at the top of a Public Portal with translation engaged.