# Translation with text including numbers

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/translation-with-text-including-numbers/15687>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition79\
**Created:** [October 17, 2017, 10:11am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/translation-with-text-including-numbers/15687 "2017-10-17T10:11:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kleppe85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c4cdca/32.png) [@Kleppe85](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kleppe85)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2017, 10:11am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/translation-with-text-including-numbers/15687/1 "2017-10-17T10:11:37Z")

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Hi,  
Have a quick question regarding translation.  
Is it so, that if I have a dropdown component containing a list of i.e Valve 1- 20.  
I need to add 20 translations in the trans.manager for this to work?

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**Author:** ![KathyApplebaum](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kathyapplebaum/32/7261_2.png) [@KathyApplebaum](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/KathyApplebaum)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2017, 3:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/translation-with-text-including-numbers/15687/2 "2017-10-17T15:02:16Z")

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Yes you do. The translation manager doesn’t know anything about the semantics of what you’re doing, and takes phrases literally. So you’ll either need 20 entries or a single entry that you use to dynamically create the values for your drop down via scripting.