Multi-language and Community Builder

Hi Kyle,
I was wondering if the Multi-language feature works for Community Builder ie if I set the language to another than default, will it switch over to the other language plugin?

And what about the fields? Do they have a second language possibility?

I was wondering if the Multi-language feature works for Community Builder ie if I set the language to another than default, will it switch over to the other language plugin?

Yes, CB loaded language is based off the language loaded by Joomla. So if you've a Joomla Spanish language plugin installed and a CB Spanish language plugin installed then switch Joomla to Spanish it will load Spanish for both.

And what about the fields? Do they have a second language possibility?

If your fields use language strings, sure. You can use language strings for field titles, descriptions, and many other parameters. You can then use language overrides to translate them in each CB language plugin you've installed as needed.

OK that with the strings sounds amazing. I will try that out now.

Bigger problem though: my languages do not switch at all. All other components are faithfully switching languages APART from Community Builder... Any ideas what that could be?

CB uses whatever language is loaded by Joomla as noted in my reply above. This assumes you don't have a language specified in your account overriding whatever Joomla has loaded.

The thing is that all other components reliably switch the language. So if I have Joomla set to French, eventbooking switches the language, so does easyblog, etc... etc... apart from Community Builder.

Can it be turned off in the settings that community builder switches the languages as well?

CB will switch the language if you have a CB language plugin for the corresponding language. The only time it can override this is if you login and that account has a language set so it will always load that users preferred language.