MS Access Multiple language support for forms only - ms-access

Question

Is there any way to apply another language to Access forms. I have an issue while creating forms, as the DB values are stored in English and I have to generate two identical forms from same Table in different languages. Everything goes well till I reach a look up field like Gender. My table optional values are 'Male' and 'Female' and is good for English form but How can I change that in my non-English form without changing table value

Answer 1

One way to do it would be to store the actual values in the main table as M and F, e.g.
ID FirstName Gender
-- --------- ------
1 Gord M
2 Angie F
and create a reference table named [Genders] like so:
TableValue Language Translation
---------- -------- -----------
M fr_ca masculin
F fr_ca féminin
M en_us Guy
F en_us Girl
M en_ca Male
F en_ca Female
On your form, create a hidden unbound text box named txtFormLanguage, and in the Form_Load event handler populate it like this:
Private Sub Form_Load()
Me.txtFormLanguage = IIf(IsNull(Me.OpenArgs), "en_ca", Me.OpenArgs)
End Sub
Now your combo box can use the following as its Row Source...
SELECT TableValue, Translation FROM Genders WHERE (((Genders.Language)=[txtFormLanguage]));
...and have other properties similar to the following:
Bound Column: 1
Column Count: 2
Column Widths: 0";1"
When the form is opened normally (without OpenArgs)...
Docmd.OpenForm "ClientForm", acNormal, , , acFormEdit, acWindowNormal
...it defaults to en_ca (English, Canada) and the combo box displays
Male
Female
When the form is opened for fr_ca (French, Canada)...
Docmd.OpenForm "ClientForm", acNormal, , , acFormEdit, acWindowNormal, "fr_ca"
...the combo box displays
masculin
féminin