02.02.01 Nonprofit Success Pack and Translation

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
• 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
• Relationships
  • Must be translated in two places
    • The picklist value changed
    • New values in the NPSP Settings>Relationship|Relationship Reciprocal Settings
• 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
• 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