English in the bot and web dashboard
The Zdravel bot and web dashboard now speak Russian and English: pick a language once and menus, reminders and announcements follow it everywhere.
How to choose a language
- In the bot — the first time you send
/startyou get a choice of two flags. You can switch at any moment with the “🌐 Language” button in the main menu or the/languagecommand. - In the web dashboard — the 🇷🇺 / 🇬🇧 flags in the header of the home screen and in “Settings”.
The suggested language is detected from your Telegram locale: if your app is in English, the bot offers English. But it is only a suggestion — until you actually pick one, the choice keeps showing up.
What is translated
- every bot screen: medications, adding and editing a medication, blood pressure, statistics, CSV export, time zone;
- dose reminders: the message arrives in the recipient’s language, read from the profile at the moment it is sent;
- announcements about new posts and articles: the caption and service lines are localised, and materials have their own translations;
- the whole web dashboard: home, doses, medications, blood pressure, report, settings, the doctor report and error messages.
What stays Russian, and why
Analog search works only with the Russian drug catalogue: it is the state registry (GRLS), where names, dosage forms and INNs exist in Russian only. There is nothing to match in English, so the section is hidden in the English interface — it is replaced by a short explanation and a button to switch to Russian.
Data you enter yourself also stays as it is: medication names, dosages and notes are your records, not interface text, and they are not translated.
Small fixes on the way
Your chosen theme and notification settings now survive a restart. And the first /start sends a single message — the language choice — instead of two in a row.
What is next
English is the first additional language, and the structure already supports a third one. If something is missing in the English version or a phrase sounds odd, send the bot /feedback with a single message: it goes to the admin panel and we do read it. An app review on Google Play or RuStore works too.