Answers.Body: <p><code>Languages options</code> allow you to limit the preferred language for your contacts. It's not related to multilingual setting.</p>
  
  <p>To enable multilingual, you need to go to :</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>menu Administer -> Localization -> Language, Currency, Locations</li>
  <li>go to the latest section "Multiple Languages Support", check the box "Enable Multiple Languages" (this will change the structure of your database so do a backup first) and Save</li>
  <li>go to this page again, and you should see a "Add Language" with a dropdown list : choose one and Save</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Now you should be in multilingual mode and should see the green/grey buttons where applicable.</p>
  
  <p>Concerning "email greeting", i think you need to enable smarty in this context. Try to add in your civicrm_settings.php (see also <a href="https://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Smarty+in+mail+templates" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Smarty+in+mail+templates</a>) :</p>
  
  <pre><code>define( 'CIVICRM_MAIL_SMARTY', 1 );
  </code></pre>
  
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Answers.Text: I tried the Enable Multiple Language Support. Thank goodness it was my sandbox site. It started creating new tables and blew up in the middle. I will revisit this after a few more versions go by.
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Answers.Text: Just to let you know, we use the multilingual option with dozens of CiviCRM installations and i haven't seen any crash while changing the unilingual / multilingual option for years. The problem might be with your hosting provider (timeout ?). In any case, if you don't give a more detailed report of what went wrong, there is very little chances that we could help you / resolve the problem. You might want to go to https://chat.civicrm.org -> translation channel to have specific support about it.
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Answers.Text: Pretty certain it was a timeout. Any suggestions to get around this?
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Answers.Text: Depending on your hosting, you might be able to raise the limit by adding in your civicrm.settings.php :
  ini_set('max_execution_time', 120);   // 120 is the number of seconds your php script could take. 
  If you got a blank screen and want to see the exact error, you can add to your  civicrm.settings.php :
  ini_set('display_errors',1);
  ini_set('display_startup_errors',1);
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Answers.Text: It could also be a hosting limitation on triggers or views. Difficult to speculate without the exact error message (which should be in your ConfigAndLog directory).
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Body: <p>Both English and French are enabled under <strong>Languages Options</strong>.</p>
  
  <p>However, I have yet to see the green buttons several posts have mentioned.</p>
  
  <p>For the email greeting, I had attempted to use the solution proposed by a German user. In French one uses Cher and Chère, but this does not work. </p>
  
  <pre><code>{capture assign=l}{contact.preferred_language}
  {/capture}{capture assign=g}{contact.gender}{/capture}
  {if $l="fr_CA"}
     {if $g="Female"}Chère{else}Cher{/if} 
  {else}Dear{/if}
  {contact.first_name} {contact.last_name}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>All I get is Network Error.</p>
  
Tags: <wordpress><4.7><i18n>
Title: How do I proceed to make CiviCRM bilingual
ThreadText: # How do I proceed to make CiviCRM bilingual
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-06-05)
  
  Both English and French are enabled under **Languages Options**.
  
  However, I have yet to see the green buttons several posts have mentioned.
  
  For the email greeting, I had attempted to use the solution proposed by a German user. In French one uses Cher and Chère, but this does not work.
  
  ```
  {capture assign=l}{contact.preferred_language}
  {/capture}{capture assign=g}{contact.gender}{/capture}
  {if $l="fr_CA"}
     {if $g="Female"}Chère{else}Cher{/if} 
  {else}Dear{/if}
  {contact.first_name} {contact.last_name}
  
  ```
  
  All I get is Network Error.
  
  **Tags:** wordpress, 4.7, i18n
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-08-31. Score: 3
  
  `Languages options` allow you to limit the preferred language for your contacts. It's not related to multilingual setting.
  
  To enable multilingual, you need to go to :
  
  * menu Administer -> Localization -> Language, Currency, Locations
  * go to the latest section "Multiple Languages Support", check the box "Enable Multiple Languages" (this will change the structure of your database so do a backup first) and Save
  * go to this page again, and you should see a "Add Language" with a dropdown list : choose one and Save
  
  Now you should be in multilingual mode and should see the green/grey buttons where applicable.
  
  Concerning "email greeting", i think you need to enable smarty in this context. Try to add in your civicrm\_settings.php (see also <https://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Smarty+in+mail+templates>) :
  
  ```
  define( 'CIVICRM_MAIL_SMARTY', 1 );
  
  ```
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: I tried the Enable Multiple Language Support. Thank goodness it was my sandbox site. It started creating new tables and blew up in the middle. I will revisit this after a few more versions go by.  
  > **username_1**: Just to let you know, we use the multilingual option with dozens of CiviCRM installations and i haven't seen any crash while changing the unilingual / multilingual option for years. The problem might be with your hosting provider (timeout ?). In any case, if you don't give a more detailed report of what went wrong, there is very little chances that we could help you / resolve the problem. You might want to go to https://chat.civicrm.org -> translation channel to have specific support about it.  
  > **username_0**: Pretty certain it was a timeout. Any suggestions to get around this?  
  > **username_1**: Depending on your hosting, you might be able to raise the limit by adding in your civicrm.settings.php : ini_set('max_execution_time', 120);   // 120 is the number of seconds your php script could take.  If you got a blank screen and want to see the exact error, you can add to your  civicrm.settings.php : ini_set('display_errors',1); ini_set('display_startup_errors',1);  
  > **username_2**: It could also be a hosting limitation on triggers or views. Difficult to speculate without the exact error message (which should be in your ConfigAndLog directory).  
  
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