---
title: li-language
description: "Allows a user to translate articles and pages into different languages."
---
## Supported Features

| Feature | Supported |
| ------- | :-------: |
| Document | ✔ |
| Media | ✗ |
| Include | ✗ |
| Document Creation Flow | ✗ |
| Push Message | ✗ |
| Usage Log | ✗ |
| Table Dashboard | ✗ |
| Display Filter | ✗ |
| Search Indexing | ✔ |
| System Metadata | ✗ |
| Planning System | ✗ |
| Webhook Conditions | ✗ |

## Description

When adding `li-language`, it allows a user to translate articles and pages into different languages. Additionally you need to enable [translationWorkflow and requiredOnCreation](/reference/project-config/settings/llms.txt).

Data Records also support translations, but need to add the metadata plugin [li-metadata-translations](/reference/document/metadata/plugins/li-metadata-translations/llms.txt).


## Default UI

Optional but can be configured as follows:

```js
ui: {
  label: 'Language', // optional
  config: {
    readOnly: true // optional, default: false
  }
}
```

This will permit users with multiple languages enabled to change the language metadata field via a dropdown field.

## Storage Format

```js
{
  locale: <String>,
  label: <String>, // deprecated, will be removed in release-2024-01
  groupId: <String>
}

```

## Content Type Config

```js
{
  handle: 'myContentType',
  // ...
  metadata: [
    {
      handle: 'myHandle',
      type: 'li-language',
      config: {
        index: true         // optional, default: false. Added in release-2023-07
      }
    }
    // ...
  ]
}
```