I have English SharePoint Desinger 2010. The site I am working on is natively Swedish (LCID 1053), with English language pack enabled.

Now when I try to create a workflow in SharePoint Designer 2010, everything shows up in English, except for function names! Function names (Actions/Conditions) show up in Swedish. It is very difficult as names are very different.

Any ideas on how to switch the language of the functions to English?

P.S. I have tried to switch to English all settings I could find in SharePoint Designer Options, yet functions are still in Swedish.
There must be a way to switch otherwise it is impossible to program (imagine if it was site in Japaneese, how would you design a workflow with Japanese function names?).

• Edited by Vitaly Stockman Wednesday, May 04, 2011 1:31 PM header update

Are you said, language settings are under options/language. What is the default language of your SharePoint server, the system default language of the client where SPD is installed (and also office default language of the same client machine)? SPD gets a lot of its content from the SP server.
AK

Thank you AK for suggestions.

Regional settings on the server are English (US), even system locale. I have changed number formats to English (US) also, but it did not help.

I have done a quick test and created a native English site (as subsite of that native Swedish one) and for that one SharePoint Designer 2010 did show functions in English! Therefore it confirms: in this case it takes language from site, rather than from server or even SharePoind Desgner Settings.

 

Question remains. How to be able to design a workflow in SharePoint Designer 2010 for site which is natively non-English? 

or simply How to change functions language to English??

 

 

P.S. in Microsoft Office Excel for example, language of function names changes depending on language of Excel interface. So you can reopen file in other language interface, the functions will automatically change to that language. It has to be somehow switchable here too. It makes no sense to lock it to site's native language.

I hope to hear more comments. Thanks!

I do not have another locale to test. I expected language would follow default SharePoint server locale or site locale and you confirmed it's the latter. However, I expected this can be changed from SPD's options/language. Notice that SPD is considered part of Office.
May be the guy at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepointdesigner/archive/2011/04/12/sharepoint-designer-blog-updates.aspx can give you a definitive answer.
AK

• Marked as answer by Wayne Fan Saturday, May 14, 2011 5:11 AM

Hi,

Have you managed to solve this somehow?

I have the exact same problem.

 I get errors when trying to start workflows on my non-English site.

Thanks

Hello Guys,

I know its too late to answer the query, I also faced the same issue and did not get the solution from the web.

I tried something and it worked fine for me, let me share this so that it can be useful for someone further.

Problem:

My site is using 2 languages : English (Default) and Arabic.

I tried to modify my workflow from designer, I got all column names in Arabic and I required those to be in English.

Solution:

I created a new SharePoint site on the same server having a single language (English).

I opened that site in the designer. After that I tried opening my earlier site (which had issue).....

And finally I got the result, I can see everything in workflow is now in English.

Perhaps the Workflow designer had something in cache or it stores some cultural Info from the Site.

Hope this helps..............

I have same problem with SharePoint Designer 2013. Has anyone answer?

I recognized the issue.... Here is the solution which worked for me. All MS product are tightly linked, please go to IE and clear all the languages and cached content. This will solve the language issue with the Designer as well. You will get the same option in sharepoint designer which actually redirects to the IE options only. I am out and can't tell you the exact option right now. Just try it from IE, it should work. Cheers