Source: https://powerofus.force.com/articles/Resource/NPSP-and-Translation
- Overview
- Out of the box translations for Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Dutch and Hebrew.
- Record Type Names and Contact Role Values
- NPSP does not support translated:
- contact Role Values
- Opportunity, Account, Contact record type names
- These values should never be translated
- NPSP does not support translated:
- Recurring Donations
- Okay to translate
- Frequency picklist values
- Not okay to translate
- Custom labels associated with Recurring Donation
- If they are translated, Status field should be set to None or Open, else the recurring donations are not created properly
- Custom labels associated with Recurring Donation
- Okay to translate
- Relationships
- Must be translated in two places
- The picklist value changed
- New values in the NPSP Settings>Relationship|Relationship Reciprocal Settings
- Must be translated in two places
- Data Import Mapping
- If the help text for fields are translated, the NPSP data import tool will fail
- Household Naming
- NPSP uses some fields to help automatically name Household accounts. Translating the following fields will break this automation
- PicklistValue.npo02__Household__c.npo02__SYSTEM_CUSTOM_NAMING.Name
- PicklistValue.Account.npo02__SYSTEM_CUSTOM_NAMING.Name
- NPSP uses some fields to help automatically name Household accounts. Translating the following fields will break this automation
- Other Picklist Values
- Preferred phone
- values are used in some Contact specific workflows.
- Translating Home, Mobile, Work, etc will break these workflows
- These workflows are off be default
- Just for completeness – here are some more behind the scene fields that should not be translated
- PicklistValue.npsp__Schedulable__c.npsp__Frequency.Daily
- PicklistValue.npsp__Schedulable__c.npsp__Frequency.Hourly
- PicklistValue.npsp__Schedulable__c.npsp__Frequency.Monthly
- PicklistValue.npsp__Schedulable__c.npsp__Frequency.Quarterly
- PicklistValue.npsp__Schedulable__c.npsp__Frequency.Weekly
- PicklistValue.Contact.npe01__SystemAccountProcessor.One-to-One
- PicklistValue.Contact.npo02__SystemHouseholdProcessor.All Individual Contacts
- PicklistValue.Contact.npo02__SystemHouseholdProcessor.All New or Edited Contacts
- PicklistValue.Contact.npo02__SystemHouseholdProcessor.No Contacts
- Preferred phone