Openli
IntroductionGetting StartedTechnical DocumentationGet help
  • Getting started
    • Introduction
    • Dictionary
    • FAQ
      • IAB TCF v2.0
  • Privacy hub
    • How to create your privacy profile
    • How can I get an Openli Privacy Badge?
    • Vendor owners
    • Why are custom properties on vendors super valuable?
    • Setting up custom properties
  • Tasks
  • Cookie Consent Management
    • Quickstart
    • Checklist: Cookies
    • Cookie widget
      • Create a cookie policy
      • Create a cookie widget
      • Install the widget
      • Manually add any cookies
      • Customise your widget
      • How to get color codes
      • Set the widget language
      • Use custom link/button instead of Cookie Shield
      • Add company name to cookie pop-up
    • Categorise your cookies
    • Adding information to cookies
    • Adding information to your cookie providers
    • Blocking Cookies with Openli
    • Cookie expiration dates and lifespan
      • Changing expiration on Google Analytics cookies
  • Policy and agreement management
    • Generate your privacy policy
    • Changing an old cookie policy to a new on autopilot
    • Embed your policies and legal agreements
      • Embedding agreements without displaying a widget
    • Install the Privacy Badge
  • General Openli guides
    • Setting up SSO (Single Sign-On)
      • SSO with Azure AD (Microsoft)
      • SSO with Google
      • SSO with Okta
      • How to log in with SSO
    • Add a website to your Openli account
    • Using projects to handle multiple languages
    • Collect consents without storing IP addresses or user-agents
  • Technical documentation
    • Widget
      • Collect cookie consent
        • Blocking cookies
        • Blocking embedded media
        • Cookie-widget options
        • Consent state API
    • API
      • Services
        • Personal data
        • Subprocessors
    • Cookies set by Openli
  • System Specific Integration Guides
    • Cloudflare
  • Legacy integrations
    • Google Consent Mode
    • Google Tag Manager
      • Block cookies with GTM
      • Install Openli with GTM
      • Prevent triggers from firing in GTM
    • HubSpot
    • Pardot
    • Shopify
      • Install cookie widget
      • Integrate consent with checkout
    • Square Online
    • Squarespace
    • Webflow
    • Wix
Powered by GitBook
On this page
  • Setting up projects
  • Systems that do not support different JavaScript for each language version
  1. General Openli guides

Using projects to handle multiple languages

If you have a multi-language page, you should always present the cookie widget in the same language as your website.

PreviousAdd a website to your Openli accountNextCollect consents without storing IP addresses or user-agents

Last updated 1 year ago

These features are only available for Cookie Business subscriptions.

Setting up projects

Remember to always make sure you have selected the correct project in the bottom left corner whenever you work in the Openli app.

To properly handle consents from different languages, you need to have access to the projects feature. This feature is available in our Cookie Business subscriptions.

  1. In your Openli dashboard, go to "Settings".

  2. Click "Add project".

  3. Name your project and save it. Use a name that makes it easily identifiable like "MYWEBSITE - EN" and "MYWEBSITE - DK".

  4. Find your project in the settings page and click "edit"

  5. Under "Manage cookie domains" add your website for the relevant language. For example: "https://example.com/en/" or "https://da.example.com/". It's important that you remember to include the language prefix or suffix, in case there are different cookies on each version of the website.

  6. Now you should see your project in the bottom-left corner of the Openli app, in the expandable menu below the "Sign out" link.

  7. Give each project a cookie policy in the appropriate language, and set up a cookie widget that uses it.

  8. Embed the relevant widget for each language on your website, ensuring that you .

Systems that do not support different JavaScript for each language version

Some systems doesn't allow you to change the scripts in the footer. This means that you can only insert one widget script, and you will need to customise it to your specific system's needs.

If you have difficulty with this and need advice, contact our customer success team at including as much detail as possible.

set the correct locale so each widget displays in the desired language
success@openli.com