# How to refer to an english or french name of an account

**URL:** <https://community.silverfin.com/t/how-to-refer-to-an-english-or-french-name-of-an-account/880>\
**Category:** Templates\
**Tags:** translations\
**Created:** [May 15, 2018, 5:38pm UTC](https://community.silverfin.com/t/how-to-refer-to-an-english-or-french-name-of-an-account/880 "2018-05-15T17:38:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Warde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Warde](https://community.silverfin.com/u/Warde)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 5:38pm UTC](https://community.silverfin.com/t/how-to-refer-to-an-english-or-french-name-of-an-account/880/1 "2018-05-15T17:38:06Z")

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Below code shows name & number of the account. How can I refer to the ENG & FR name of the account?

{% for account in period.accounts.include\_zeros %}  
{{ account.number }};"{{ account.name }}"  
{% endfor %}

Ward

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**Author:** ![sven](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.silverfin.com/sven/32/1495_2.png) [@sven](https://community.silverfin.com/u/sven)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 7:22am UTC](https://community.silverfin.com/t/how-to-refer-to-an-english-or-french-name-of-an-account/880/2 "2018-05-16T07:22:16Z")

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Hello @Warde,

For now, not yet possible but I added this to our feature list.

In the mean time, you could change the language setting of your user to display the correct name of an account. Or change your export bundle and change the language setting in there.

Could that be a workaround for you for now @Warde ?

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**Author:** ![Warde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Warde](https://community.silverfin.com/u/Warde)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 7:25am UTC](https://community.silverfin.com/t/how-to-refer-to-an-english-or-french-name-of-an-account/880/3 "2018-05-16T07:25:40Z")

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Tx Sven, but the idea is to download the ENG account names in one file for use in a mapping for another file… so this won’t work.

Would be glad if this possibility would be available!

Ward

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**Author:** ![sven](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.silverfin.com/sven/32/1495_2.png) [@sven](https://community.silverfin.com/u/sven)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 7:26am UTC](https://community.silverfin.com/t/how-to-refer-to-an-english-or-french-name-of-an-account/880/4 "2018-05-16T07:26:26Z")

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Agree 🙂

I’ll keep you posted @Warde

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**Author:** ![sven](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.silverfin.com/sven/32/1495_2.png) [@sven](https://community.silverfin.com/u/sven)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 9:30am UTC](https://community.silverfin.com/t/how-to-refer-to-an-english-or-french-name-of-an-account/880/5 "2018-05-16T09:30:23Z")

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PS @Warde,

You could use this code by the way :

`{% locale ‘en’ %}{{account.name }} {% endlocale %}`

This locale-tag will make display the name in English as if your user was set that way with that language; could you give it a go with this?

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**Author:** ![Warde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Warde](https://community.silverfin.com/u/Warde)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 10:00am UTC](https://community.silverfin.com/t/how-to-refer-to-an-english-or-french-name-of-an-account/880/6 "2018-05-16T10:00:29Z")

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Hey Sven, I got the solution using this!! Instead of ‘en’, I had to use “en” in the code however.

Tx!

Ward

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**Author:** ![sven](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.silverfin.com/sven/32/1495_2.png) [@sven](https://community.silverfin.com/u/sven)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 11:42am UTC](https://community.silverfin.com/t/how-to-refer-to-an-english-or-french-name-of-an-account/880/7 "2018-05-16T11:42:11Z")

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Great to hear @Warde ! 👌

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**Author:** ![sven](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.silverfin.com/sven/32/1495_2.png) [@sven](https://community.silverfin.com/u/sven)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://community.silverfin.com/t/how-to-refer-to-an-english-or-french-name-of-an-account/880/8 "2018-05-31T15:14:46Z")

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Hey @Warde,

Just fyi

> [@CASE: use translated name for an account](https://community.silverfin.com/t/case-use-translated-name-for-an-account/950):
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> You can now use the French or English name of an account, by simply using {{ account.name\_fr }} and {{ account.name\_en }} So you could do this : {% assign account = #221000 | first %} account.number : {{ account.number }} account.original\_number : {{ account.original\_number }} account.name : {{ account.name }} account.name\_fr : {{ account.name\_fr }} account.name\_en : {{ account.name\_en }} account.name\_nl : {{ account.name\_nl }} account.original\_name\_fr : {{ account.original\_name\_fr }} …

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**Author:** ![Warde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Warde](https://community.silverfin.com/u/Warde)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 5:33pm UTC](https://community.silverfin.com/t/how-to-refer-to-an-english-or-french-name-of-an-account/880/9 "2018-05-31T17:33:42Z")

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Tx for this reply Sven, good to know

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**Author:** ![sven](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.silverfin.com/sven/32/1495_2.png) [@sven](https://community.silverfin.com/u/sven)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 6:56am UTC](https://community.silverfin.com/t/how-to-refer-to-an-english-or-french-name-of-an-account/880/10 "2018-06-01T06:56:04Z")

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Closed on June 1, 2018, 6:56am UTC