[SalesForce] Is it possible to make text bold in a custom label

Background

We have a custom application which we need to support in multiple languages. Visualforce is our main UI framework.

For internationalization we will use Custom Labels. One of the possible formats we would like to use is as follows:

"Admin sent file1.pdf to the following recipients:"

Note that Admin and file1.pdf should be bold.

I tried creating a custom label with value:

And the result is kind of "expected":

Question

Is it possible, if at all, to use Custom Labels and format part of its text in bold?

Best Answer

If you're displaying it in Visualforce maybe try something like:

<apex:outputText value="{!label}" escape="false"/>

An alternative would be to create multiple labels for the different parts of the string and then manually bold them yourself.

For instance you'd have labels for the following text:

sent
to the following recipients:

Then output the text in chucnks:

<apex:outputText value="{!userName}" style="font-weight:bold;"/>
<apex:outputText value="{!label1}"><apex:outputtext value="{!fileName}" style="font-weight:bold;"/>
<apex:outputText value="{!label2}"/>

My concern here would be translation as it would be seen as two seperate... sentences? which could create issues in grammar.

Related Solutions

[SalesForce] Parameterized Custom Label

You can do this using the String.format() method which can provide parameter substitution on your label. The second parameter to this method is a List type and contains your parameters to be substituted.

Label name: MyTestLabel
Label value: Thank you, {0}, for your feedback.


List<String> parameters = new List<String>();
parameters.add('John');

String label = Label.MyTestLabel;
String value = String.format(label, parameters);

You can do it in one line like this as well:

string.format(Label.MyTestLabel, new String[]{'John'});
string.format(Label.MyTestLabel, new List<String>{'John'});

[SalesForce] How to make a custom label display ‘nothing’

I managed to do this in Windows using " " (Alt+255); it appears as just a space of the non-breaking variety. You may need to consult your OS's manual to figure out how to type this character in your OS, or you can copy and paste the space from this post.