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Multilingual badge names & descriptions: is it possible?

  • May 21, 2026
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Daniele Cmty
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Hey community,

I'll be running a multilingual community and we're looking to localise our badge experience for members who use the platform in different languages (in our case, primarily English and German).

The question: Is there any way to have badge names and descriptions adapt based on a member's selected language?

From what I can see in Control, badges only have a single Title and Description field with no language variants. But before I assume it's not possible, I wanted to check with the community.

 

If it's not natively supported: has anyone found a workaround or best practice? A few things I've been thinking about:

  • Creating separate badge sets per language (a bit messy and complicated, but maybe viable?
  • Accepting the limitation and using English only, since the badge image carries most of the visual meaning
    • Additionally, possibly adding jsut the BADGE DESCRIPTION in in both languages and squeeze it into the same description. a bit messy.

 

Would love to hear from anyone who's tackled this, especially if you run a multi-language community on CC.

 

 

Also, I know there are more Multilingual Features coming out in a handful months and maybe someone knows whether this is in scope?
 

Thanks!

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samanthahamlet
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  • Gainsight Community Manager
  • May 21, 2026

Hey ​@Daniele Cmty
This a great question - I’ve checked with the team and while this isn’t possible yet, it’s definitely on our radar.

In the meantime, I like your suggestion of creating separate badge sets per language! 

Interested to hear more from others on this! 😊


Daniele Cmty
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  • May 22, 2026

Thanks ​@samanthahamlet !
If we did create separate badge sets, that would make the setup quite complex, and also it wouldn’t fully solve the problem because English-speaking users would still see German Badges when visiting German Profiles (or hovering over them).

Anyway, this is not a deal-breaker.

We might just stick to English Badges for all.

Excited to see what new Multilingual Features will come out in the future.