Per-screen multilingual content

Why sites want it

Hotels, hospitals, businesses near airports and shops in tourist areas welcome visitors in several languages. Preparing the same announcement as separate content for every language and sending it to the right screens gets messy over time: a price is updated in one language and forgotten in another. And when guests cannot find information in their own language, they take the question to reception.

What you can do today

MIA's management panel is in Turkish, while the content shown on screens can be in any language. The zone titles in the ready designs are bilingual. With custom tags such as "dil:en", you can already choose which screens play the content in each language. English items then play only on the screens meant for them, while the others carry on in Turkish.

What can be built on request

A tidier structure can be built for your installation: the language versions of an item would be kept under one record, each screen would get a default language, and the screen would play the version in its own language. Two languages could also take turns on the same screen if you want, and items missing a translation could be flagged in the panel. When one version is updated, a reminder to review the other languages could be added. Layout adjustments for right-to-left languages could be in scope as well.

What we need to know to scope it

• Which languages, and on which screens
• Whether languages are shown per screen or in turn
• Who prepares the translations
• Which content types should be multilingual

With this we would suggest starting with two languages and a few screens. Scope, timing and price are agreed for each project.