Marketo Dynamic Form Field Labels - Multiple Languages

[Anonymous]

We're fairly new to Marketo and just about to implement forms across our website.

Is there a way to dynamically change form field labels i.e. First Name to Naam if country = Netherlands ?

Any help would be much appreciated!

[Anonymous]

FYI. I moved your post to Products and Support​

[Anonymous]

OK thank you! Will be sure to do the same for future product related posts!

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately you need separate forms if you want to do multiple languages.

[SanfordWhiteman]

Huh?  Not at all.  You only need one form.  I've outlined this recipe a few times recently.

See Re: How do I update the submit button and error message to reflect local language (i.e French)

And demo code at:

• http://codepen.io/figureone/pen/mJWgjE?editors=001&lang=en-US (translates the LastName's label and validation text for en-US)
• http://codepen.io/figureone/pen/mJWgjE?editors=001&lang=fr-FR (translates the FirstName's label, placeholder, and submit button text for fr-FR)

[Anonymous]

Yea, of course, there's usually a code-based solution The user mentioned that they were new to Marketo so I was presuming we were using default functionality, which as you point out, may not be the case.

[Anonymous]

Thank you so much for your help!

[Anonymous]

Thank you for your help Sanford! I think we want to start with default functionality of Marketo, but it is good to know that we have an option for the future. I will keep this on file.

[SanfordWhiteman]

Well, I consider Marketo's Forms 2.0 API and basic HTML/JS to very much be default functionality... if you couldn't extend Mkto forms I wouldn't use them at all. But that's me I guess.

[SanfordWhiteman]

... also, the language-switching logic is part of our FormsPlus library (in progress) so all you'll have to do is include FormsPlus in your page (plus your translations, of course!).