Inline content translation for comments and descriptions (like LinkedIn / MS Teams)
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Nicolas Deboutte
When working in international or multilingual teams, comments and task descriptions are often written in a team member's native language. ClickUp currently has no way to translate this content inline.
LinkedIn and Microsoft Teams both handle this elegantly: a "Translate" link appears below foreign-language content and — on click — replaces the text with a machine translation, right in place. No copy-pasting into external tools, no switching context.
We'd love to see the same in ClickUp, specifically for:
• Task descriptions
• Comments (including thread replies)
• Custom field text values (nice to have)
Proposed behaviour:
• Auto-detect the language of a comment or description
• Show a subtle "Translate" link or globe icon below the content when it differs from the viewer's UI language
• On click, replace the text inline with the translation (with an option to "Show original")
• Optionally: add a workspace-level setting to auto-translate all foreign content
This is purely about translating user-generated content inside the tool — not translating the ClickUp UI itself.
Teams that would benefit: staffing, consulting, customer support, and any cross-border organisation using ClickUp as a shared workspace across language groups.
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