The Name catalog item does not translate in the catalog item widget on Service Portal - Support and Troubleshooting

The Name catalog item does not translate in the catalog item widget on Service Portal Issue  On Service Portal, when a user switches the language from English to a different language, the name of a catalog item does not translate while everything else on the page does.

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Cause The reason the translation was not displaying is because the Name field at the dictionary level was set to a type Translated Field . The correct type should be Translated Text .

Resolution 1. On the sc_cat_item table, go to the Dictionary record of the Name field.

2. Change the Type field from Translated Field to Translated Text .

https://instance-name.service-now.com/ nav_to.do?uri=sys_dictionary.do?sys_id=9707fa996f412100b23960444b3ee4c6

3. Make sure that the translation for the name of that particular item is added to the Translated Text table: sys_translated_text

Related Links For more information, check out the following product documentation:

Translation tables

Translated text table