Language change at Legal Entity level

(0) Share

Report

Posted on by Poonam Tribhuvan

Hi,

Is there any way through which we can change the language based on Legal Entity. (e.g. English for UK and Japanese for Japan)

I tried in the following two ways:

1. Settings > User options > Preferences > Language

But it is changing the language at user specific level

2. Organization Administration > Legal Entities > Language

This is not changing anything.

Please advice.

Thanks

I have the same question (0)

All responses (7)

Answers (1)

MATTGUO 22,349 Moderator on at

Like (0)

Report

Hi,

The UI language is based on user setup.

The legal entity language can be used to automatically fill in the language field when you create the new records(eg. employee).

What expected scenario are you looking for?

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
Poonam Tribhuvan 65 on at

Like (0)

Report

Hi MATTGUO,

The requirement is to have legal entity specific language.

The organisation is across the globe so based on the country (legal entity) the language should be configured. As stated in the previous e.g. for Japan LE they want Japanese as the language and for France LE they want French. Hope the question is clear now.

Thanks

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
MATTGUO 22,349 Moderator on at

Like (1)

Report

HI,

As i said previous, the UI language is based on user language. The UI language could not be changed according to the legal entity language.

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
Poonam Tribhuvan 65 on at

Like (0)

Report

Hi,

Please help me understand then why we have the option to change language at Legal Entity level

Organization Administration > Legal Entities > Language.

What is the purpose of it?

Thanks

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
MATTGUO 22,349 Moderator on at

Like (0)

Report

Hi,

The legal entity language can be used to automatically fill in the language field when you create the new records(eg. employee).

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
Verified answer

André Arnaud de Cal... 300,904 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

Like (1)

Report

Hi Poonam,

The language can't be tied to a legal entity. Suppose, I have to contribute on your implementation project, then I can't understand Japanese and most of the French words are not familiar to me. In that case, I have my own user language and can help in e.g. English or Dutch.

I do think most users will be tied to at least one legal entity. Then you can default the language per user. A user can change it on the user options or also via a URL parameter.

I have written some blog posts related to user languages in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations. These are partly valid for Human Resources. Note that the customization part is not applicable to Human Resources:

How to select a default language for new users in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations - Dynamicspedia

New option to change the user default or session language - Dynamicspedia

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
Poonam Tribhuvan 65 on at

Like (0)

Report

Thanks André Arnaud de Calavon for your response and for the detailed explanation and for the blog posts links supporting your answer .

Regards,

Poonam

Was this reply helpful? Yes No

Join the conversation

Community site session details

Language change at Legal Entity level

Helpful resources

Quick Links

Responsible AI policies

Neeraj Kumar – Community Spotlight

Congratulations to the November Top 10 Community Leaders!

Leaderboard > Finance | Project Operations, Human Resources, AX, GP, SL

Featured topics

Product updates

Community site session details

Language change at Legal Entity level

Helpful resources

Quick Links

Responsible AI policies

Neeraj Kumar – Community Spotlight

Congratulations to the November Top 10 Community Leaders!

Subscribe to this forum!

Select categories

Leaderboard > Finance | Project Operations, Human Resources, AX, GP, SL

Featured topics

Product updates