# Add Translation to dashboard visualization

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-translation-to-dashboard-visualization/320548>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [December 6, 2022, 8:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-translation-to-dashboard-visualization/320548 "2022-12-06T08:57:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![User101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a9a28c/32.png) [@User101](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/User101)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 8:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-translation-to-dashboard-visualization/320548/1 "2022-12-06T08:57:42Z")

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Hi guys im new to kibana and i want to know can i add translation to visualization custom label in en.json

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**Author:** ![Marco\_Liberati](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marco_liberati/32/82953_2.png) [@Marco\_Liberati](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marco_Liberati)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 10:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-translation-to-dashboard-visualization/320548/2 "2022-12-06T10:40:23Z")

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Hi @User101

welcome to the Kibana community.  
Just to clarify, you have a custom label on a visualization, but you want that label to translate into another language, did I understand correctly?

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**Author:** ![User101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a9a28c/32.png) [@User101](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/User101)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 11:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-translation-to-dashboard-visualization/320548/3 "2022-12-06T11:22:31Z")

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Thanks for responding .Yes that's my question

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**Author:** ![Marco\_Liberati](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marco_liberati/32/82953_2.png) [@Marco\_Liberati](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marco_Liberati)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 11:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-translation-to-dashboard-visualization/320548/4 "2022-12-06T11:44:21Z")

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No, that's not possible at the moment.  
Translation would work for default labels, but not for custom ones: would that work if you write a custom label in two languages with a separator (perhaps a short label may work best)?

Something like: `Average of bytes ( it: Media di bytes )`

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**Author:** ![User101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a9a28c/32.png) [@User101](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/User101)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 1:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-translation-to-dashboard-visualization/320548/5 "2022-12-06T13:41:30Z")

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![Inked8fd2a9dc6515fc831f79f9dd54efce4031d88bed](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/a/9/a98038add9778b26ca955289ecdf8f516f283b90.jpeg)  
can i translate panel and others in two languages fr and en ?

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**Author:** ![Marco\_Liberati](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marco_liberati/32/82953_2.png) [@Marco\_Liberati](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marco_Liberati)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 2:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-translation-to-dashboard-visualization/320548/6 "2022-12-06T14:37:37Z")

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It looks an older version of Kibana there, which version is it?

BTW I've just tested it and I found that `Count of records` would not be updated, unless the user "manually" refreshes the metric dimension, but `timestamp per 3 hours` would be translated.

I've opened an issue about that: [[Lens] Dimension labels are partially translated on language change · Issue #147107 · elastic/kibana · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/147107)

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**Author:** ![User101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a9a28c/32.png) [@User101](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/User101)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 5:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-translation-to-dashboard-visualization/320548/7 "2022-12-06T17:13:42Z")

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i take that visualization just for example . Im using v7.17.6

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**Author:** ![User101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a9a28c/32.png) [@User101](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/User101)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 8:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-translation-to-dashboard-visualization/320548/8 "2022-12-08T08:40:59Z")

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@Marco_Liberati Can I translate the title of the panel into 2 languages ​​(en - fr) according to the local language of the user

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**Author:** ![Marco\_Liberati](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marco_liberati/32/82953_2.png) [@Marco\_Liberati](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marco_Liberati)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-translation-to-dashboard-visualization/320548/9 "2022-12-12T08:33:22Z")

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@User101

the title is something completely custom, so it won't be translated automatically.  
You could write down a title in 2 language yourself, something like `[en] Chart title - [it] Titolo grafico`

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/add-translation-to-dashboard-visualization/320548/10 "2023-01-09T08:33:30Z")

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