# Language

Use the dashboard in Portuguese or English and pick each city's language for the bot, store, rules website and resource.

Source: https://fivedash.fivex.gg/docs/en/dashboard/language

FiveDash has two languages: **Português (Brasil)** and **English**. There are two separate settings: the **dashboard language**, which is yours and only changes what you see, and the **city language**, which belongs to each server and changes what players see on Discord, in the store and on the rules website. So you can use the dashboard in English and keep the city in Portuguese, or the other way around.

## Before you start

* Dashboard language: anyone, for themselves.
* City language: **Owner** or **Admin** (it's in **Manage servers**).

## Dashboard language

### Open Profile

Go to **Settings → Profile**.

### Pick the language

In the **Language** group, open the picker and choose **Português (Brasil)** or **English**.

### Done

The dashboard switches right away and **Language changed** (or **Idioma alterado**) shows. No need to save.

Before you sign in, the sign-up and sign-in screens also have the **Language** picker. Your choice is kept in the browser for a year and, if you create the account with it, it's saved on the account.

| Situation                                       | Language used                                                                |
| ----------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| You picked a language in **Settings → Profile** | The one you picked                                                           |
| You didn't pick one                             | Your region's: Portuguese for accounts from Brazil, English for the rest     |
| Screens before signing in                       | The one picked in the **Language** picker; otherwise, the browser's language |

> The dashboard language is yours alone: **It doesn't change what your team sees.** Each person picks their own.

### What the dashboard language changes

| Changes                                                            | Doesn't change                                              |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| Menus, pages, buttons, error messages and notices in the dashboard | Texts your team wrote (bot messages, products, rules pages) |
| FiveDash AI's replies in the assistants                            | The city language                                           |
| Your account's e-mails (codes and security notices)                | What other people on the team see                           |

## City language

Each server has its own language, used in everything players see.

### Open Manage servers

In the sidebar, open the server picker and click **Manage servers**.

### Open the server

Click the server you want to change.

### Pick the city language

In the **Language** group, pick the **City language**: **Português (Brasil)** or **English**.

### Save

Click **Save changes**.

| The city language changes      | Detail                                                                  |
| ------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| What the bot writes on Discord | The bot's default replies and messages                                  |
| The store and checkout         | The store website players use                                           |
| The rules website              | The site's fixed parts                                                  |
| Ticket transcripts             | The text around the conversation                                        |
| The fivedash resource          | Console messages and in-game notices for players, from the next sync on |

> Texts your team already wrote don't change. If you wrote the bot's messages in Portuguese, they stay in Portuguese after switching the city to English.

Without a choice, the city language follows the organization's region. The fivedash resource starts in the language saved from its last sync; before the first one, it uses `Locale` in `config.lua` (or the `fivedash_locale` convar) and, failing that, Portuguese. See [Install the resource](https://fivedash.fivex.gg/docs/en/getting-started/install-resource).

## FAQ

**I switched the dashboard to English and my team complained.** It shouldn't affect anyone: the dashboard language is per person. Check that you didn't change the **City language** in **Manage servers**.

**Can I have one city in Portuguese and another in English?** Yes. The city language is per server.

**Is there Spanish?** No. The dashboard and the cities come in Português (Brasil) and English.

## Next steps

[Organizations and servers](https://fivedash.fivex.gg/docs/en/dashboard/organizations-and-servers)

Manage servers and the city language.

[Account and security](https://fivedash.fivex.gg/docs/en/dashboard/account-and-security)

The rest of your profile.

[Discord bot](https://fivedash.fivex.gg/docs/en/discord/bot)

The messages the bot writes.

[Install the resource](https://fivedash.fivex.gg/docs/en/getting-started/install-resource)

The resource's console language.