API Portal
Portal localization
Change the language of your API Portal's built-in text: the portal shows one language to every visitor, Apiable loads your translated strings for you, and untranslated strings stay in English. There is no per-developer language switch.
Your API Portal's built-in text, such as buttons, labels and messages, comes from a set of strings that Apiable manages. You can have those strings replaced with your own translation. The portal then shows that language to every visitor. Untranslated strings stay in English.
How do you change the language of the API Portal?
Ask Apiable for the list of your portal's built-in strings, translate the values, and send the file back. Apiable loads your translations into your portal's own string set, and they replace the English text for every visitor.
- Email support@apiable.io and ask for your portal's string file.
- Translate the values. Leave each key exactly as it is.
- Send the translated file back, and say which language it is in.
- When Apiable confirms the translation is loaded, check your portal's pages and sign-in screens.
What gets translated, and what does not?
The string set covers the portal's built-in text. Content you author is shown exactly as you write it, to every visitor.
| Text | How it changes language |
|---|---|
| Built-in text, such as buttons, form labels and messages | Through the string translation on this page. A few messages are fixed in English. |
| Your pages, products, articles and documentation | Write them in the language you want, in the dashboard. |
| Landing page texts, such as Hero Title | Type them in the language you want under Portal, Theme. |
What happens to strings you do not translate?
They stay in English. Your portal reads its own string set first and falls back to Apiable's English strings for anything it does not contain. A partial translation is safe: translated strings show in your language and the rest stay readable in English.
Can developers pick their own language?
No. Every visitor sees the same strings, whatever their browser or account settings.
Is this the same as the dashboard's language?
No. The dashboard, where you configure the portal, is in English and has no language option. Translating the portal changes only what your developers see.