[SalesForce] How to see Translation for Custom Label in Lightning Component

I have a Lightning Community for different countries. Have components w/ custom labels(Language : English). Labels have a German Translations(German, active). I use labels in tags:

etc.

I see only English equivalent of a label, but I need to see this in German.

For VF SF has:

And this translates labels.

Do we have something like this in Lightning? Or how can I apply Translations to Custom label?

Any help will be appreciated!
Thank you!

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Probably this is a Salesforce bug. I have a similar problem. I'm developing a component as part of managed package. Translations work when I'm inside the development org, but I get only English values when using the component in my test org.

My workaround for this is to add a server side action that would return a map of all the custom labels used in the component and then set it as an attribute of type "Map". (You need to reference in apex or visualforce all labels anyway in order to include them in a managed package)

I don't know if your problem is the same so I submitted another question and sample code for the workaround here https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/a/150840/27814

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Translations sound suspiciously close to Metadata API which means it's not accessible from Apex (at least not without some callout-like hacks). Can't you just use standard Translation Workbench? Export to Excel, let users translate, import back... sure beats crafting XML files.

Besides even if you had such possibility to modify translations from Apex - how do you plan to write a "metadata change sniffer" that'd "fire" every time a new picklist is added or existing one modified? Or that would detect the fact a new language was enabled in the system?

I believe "you're doing it wrong" ;) I think it makes more sense to leverage the fact Salesforce kept picklist name & value identical (so no way to configure system out of the box to have <select>...<option value="Y">Yes</option>...</select>). If you need this Yes/No somewhere else as Y/N - consider making a formula field?

EDIT

Translations metadata missing in Eclipse - check your package.xml. Mine contains (among others)

<types>
    <members>*</members>
    <name>CustomObjectTranslation</name>
</types>
<types>
    <members>*</members>
    <name>Translations</name>
</types>

("Translations" is for apps, custom labels etc) and my Opportunity-es.objectTranslation has correct data in it:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CustomObjectTranslation xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
...
<fields>
    <help>Si es Indirecto, debe rellenar el campo de mayorista</help>
    <label>Directo / Indirecto</label>
    <name>Direct_Indirect__c</name>
    <picklistValues>
        <masterLabel>Direct</masterLabel>
        <translation>Directo</translation>
    </picklistValues>
    <picklistValues>
        <masterLabel>Indirect</masterLabel>
        <translation>Indirecto</translation>
    </picklistValues>
</fields>
...
<fields>
    <name>LeadSource</name>
    <picklistValues>
        <masterLabel>Advertisement</masterLabel>
        <translation><!-- Advertisement --></translation>
    </picklistValues>
    <picklistValues>
        <masterLabel>Customer Event</masterLabel>
        <translation><!-- Customer Event --></translation>
    </picklistValues>
...

[SalesForce] APEX: get a Custom Label translation in a certain language which is not equal to the current user’s language

In apex:page there is an attribute 'language' which you can set as the language of your choice/requirement to override the users language.

Check this link

language

The language used to display labels that have associated translations in Salesforce. This value overrides the language of the user viewing the page. Possible values for this attribute include any language keys for languages supported by Salesforce, for example, "en" or "en-US".

From documentation seems it should be possible. I haven't tried it out though.

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