Multilingual survey

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How to hide the language switcher from the welcome page

In the case in which you decide to launch a multilingual survey, you will observe on the welcome page a drop-down menu that permits your respondents to select the language in which they wish to fill in your survey:

However, in certain scenarios you wish to hide the respective option. There are many ways in which you can hide the language switcher. The "twig" way is displayed below.

Access Themes from the global [[Configuration menu.

Click on the Theme editor button to edit the desired theme:

LimeSurvey does not allow you to edit the standard themes! If you wish to add changes to a standard team, click on the Extend button located on the top bar to create a copy of the standard theme.

Look on the left side of the screen for the language_changer.twig file.

Go to the line that contains the following function:

{% if aSurveyInfo.alanguageChanger.show == true %}

Comment it out (replace "%" with "#") and copy the following line below it:

{% if false == true %}

The line should look like this in the end:

Click on "Copy to local theme and save changes".

Access your survey and select the edited theme from the general settings panel. Now, the welcome page should look like this:

How to hide the language switcher located on the top menu

To hide the top language changer, will rely again on twig. Go to Screen located in the upper-right part of the screen and select Navigation. Now, look on the left side of the screen for "language_changer_top_menu.twig". Comment out:

{% if aSurveyInfo.alanguageChanger.show == true %}

Add the following line below it:

{% if false == true %}

Now, no language switcher will be displayed on the right side of the screen: