Most people never set a language at all: AB Projects detects yours from Microsoft Teams the first time you open the app and remembers it on your profile. The Settings tab is for when you want something different.
Detected once, then remembered. AB Projects reads your Teams language when your profile is first created and keeps it from then on — changing your Teams language later doesn't change AB Projects. To switch afterwards, use the Language and Region dropdown in Settings.
The 11 languages
AB is available in the same 11 languages across the platform (see Supported Platforms):
| Language | Native name |
|---|---|
| English | English |
| Japanese | 日本語 |
| German | Deutsch |
| French | Français |
| Spanish | Español |
| Korean | 한국어 |
| Portuguese | Português |
| Russian | Русский |
| Arabic | العربية |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 中文（简体） |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 中文（繁體） |
Translation coverage varies slightly by surface — when a phrase isn't translated for your language yet, it appears in English as the fallback. That's expected, not a bug.
Changing your language
- Open the Settings tab in the AB Projects personal app, or at blz.actionbridge.io.
- Pick a language from the Language and Region dropdown in the Profile card.
- Click Save at the bottom of the Profile card. The interface switches to your chosen language.
To be honest about the dropdown: it currently offers English and Japanese as manual choices. The other nine languages are applied through automatic detection from Teams when your profile is created.
What your language setting changes
| Area | Behavior |
|---|---|
| Interface text | Menus, labels, and messages throughout AB Projects, with English as the fallback for untranslated strings. |
| Task option names | Statuses, types, and environments appear in your language when the project has added localized names for them. |
| Change history & bot replies | Localized where covered; English fallback elsewhere. |
| Dates | Always a clear ISO-style format (e.g. 2025-12-01) for everyone, regardless of language — so dates read the same across a mixed-language team. |
| Delivery times | Follow your timezone, which is a separate setting in the same Profile card — see Editing Your Profile and Icon. |
Tips
- Seeing an English label in an otherwise translated screen? It simply hasn't been localized for your language yet — English is the fallback.
- When you configure a project's statuses, types, and environments, add localized names so teammates see them in their own languages.
- Set your timezone alongside your language so task reminders arrive at the right local time.
In short: AB Projects meets you in the language your Teams already speaks, and Settings is there when you want to override it.